Spotify is rolling out Audiobook Charts

Spotify is launching Audiobook Charts for the U.S. and U.K., the institution announced connected Friday. Similar to the streaming giant’s Music and Podcast Charts, the Audiobook Charts volition beryllium updated play and item the apical audiobooks wide and by genre. These rankings are based connected listening behaviour and engagement connected the streaming service, the institution says.

The caller charts are accessible to some escaped and paying users wrong the audiobooks hub. You tin find them by tapping the hunt fastener successful the app and selecting the “Audiobooks” tile to participate the hub. Then, you request to scroll down to the “Dive deeper” conception to find the charts.

The determination marks Spotify’s latest concern successful the audiobooks space, pursuing its authoritative enactment of the format successful 2022.

Since then, Spotify has continued investing successful audiobooks with further features similar the recently-launched “Page Match” tool, which lets users scan a leafage from a carnal publication to instantly modulation to that spot successful the audiobook, and “Audiobook Recaps,” which are abbreviated audio summaries to drawback you up connected what you’ve already work truthful far.

Spotify says the caller Audiobook Charts volition payment some readers and authors by giving listeners a trusted mode to observe fashionable titles, portion besides creating caller opportunities for authors and the publishing manufacture to scope wider audiences.

“As we’ve proven with Music and Podcasts Charts, erstwhile contented is easier to access, discover, and enjoy, the request grows,” said Duncan Bruce, Spotify’s Director of Audiobook Partnerships and Licensing, successful a blog post. “We are delighted to present bring that to audiobooks, to assistance supply adjacent much ways for users, publishers, and authors to observe what’s trending connected Spotify, and marque books much connected with civilization successful existent time.”

It’s worthy noting that Spotify isn’t lone funny successful audiobooks, arsenic the streaming elephantine besides precocious ventured into carnal publication sales. Spotify announced earlier this period that users successful the U.S. and the U.K. volition soon beryllium capable to purchase carnal copies of books straight wrong the app done a concern with Bookshop.org.