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# Spotify Passes 217M Active Users, Revenue Per User Slips
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/spotify-passes-217m-active-users-revenue-per-user-slips/
- Published: 2019-04-29T07:09:11.000Z
- Updated: 2019-04-29T07:09:11.000Z
- Description: UPDATED: Spotify's monthly active users grew 26% over the last year to 217 million at the end of 2018, the streamer reported on Monday. Now in 79 countries, a February. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/04/spotify-passes-217m-active-users-revenue-per-user-slips.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Startups & Funding, music, musician, musicians, Spotify, streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:55

[![image from mms.businesswire.com](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20240a481a286200d-200wi "image from mms.businesswire.com")](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20240a481a286200d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)UPDATED: Spotify's monthly active users grew 26% over the last year to 217 million at the end of 2018, the streamer reported on Monday. Now in 79 countries, a February launch in India added 2 million to its global total. Overall, Spotify posted a smaller first-quarter loss of $158 million vs $189 million for the same period last year.

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MAUs By Region

**Premium Subscribers** grew to 100 million, up 32% year on year. The growth was attributed to a "better than plan" promotion in the US and Canada and continued strong growth in Family Plan. The streamer also reported growth from the expansion of a free Google Home Mini promotion to Europe, a price reduction to the Spotify Premium + Hulu offering in the US and an expanded global partnership with Samsung.

**Subscription churn** was flat Q1.

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subscribers by region

**Total Q1 revenue** was $1,685 million, up 33% year over year. Premium revenue was $1545 million in Q1 up 34% year on year, the third quarter of accelerating Y/Y growth in the last four quarters. [![image from mms.businesswire.com](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20240a4a64ae6200b-450wi "image from mms.businesswire.com")](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20240a4a64ae6200b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)In the all **important metric of average revenue per user,** results were a bit less rosey, down down 2% excluding the impact from foreign exchange rates, or flat if after accounting for a currency bump. Downward pressure on ARPU has moderated, according to Spotify, who predicts that ARPU declines through the remainder of the year will be in the low single digits.

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"The declines in ARPU are a result of shifts in both product and geographic mix," according to Spotify. "Approximately 75% of the impact to ARPU is attributable to product mix changes, and the remainder a function of changes in geographic mix and other factors." **Ad-Supported revenue** growth under performed expectations in Q1, particularly in the US. Even though ad supported revenue grew 24% Y/Y to $140.5, it was outpaced by growth in the number of ad-supported users. Spotify predicts that revenue from podcasts should accelerate through 2019\. helping future numbers.