


Of course the next question is how as an artist do you get good save rates? Apart from releasing brilliant music that people love so much that they want to save it, I would definitely recommend using a pre-save tool ( as I have written about before) as these make it easy for your fans to add your music to their library and hence increase your save rates.įinally, there is one big caveat to this whole article and that nobody knows exactly how to get your music featured on algorithmic Spotify playlists. In his post he published some stats that show that his songs with the highest save rates are the songs that get featured in Discover Weekly most. This 10% figure seems to be backed up by singer.songwriter Steve Benjamins who posted this excellent blog post on how he earns $400 a month from Discover Weekly playlists. During my years of studying stats for hundreds of artists I typically see save rates of between 3% to 7% on average. What makes a good save rate then I hear you ask? Well Spotify don’t publish any guidelines here but I’m going to go out on a limb and say anything above 10% as being “good”. If you divide saves by listeners (25.3k / 258.6k) then multiply by 100 you get a save rate of 9.78%. So in the Spotify for Artists dashboard screenshot above users have saved a particular song 25.3k times and has had 258.6k listeners during the same period.
