Spotify Closes its 4th Quarter Stronger than Ever

Spotify released its Q4 2024 earnings, closing Q4 stronger than ever by outperforming across key metrics and celebrating the first full year of profitability. By the end of December 2024, Spotify’s monthly active users (MAU) reached a record high of 675 million, a 12% year-over-year surge.

This represents the highest Q4 net MAU additions ever. Spotify Premium subscriptions grew 11% YoY to 263 million, highlighting continued consumer appetite for ad-free listening and personalized content.

Financially, the company saw strong growth, with revenue up 16% year-over-year to $4.2 billion, driven by increased subscriptions and advertising. A record-high gross margin of 32.2% was achieved, and operating income reached a new quarterly high of $477 million, demonstrating improved cost efficiencies and profitability.

This marks the company’s first full year of operating income profitability and record gross margin, operating margin, and free cash flow.

Daniel Ek, Spotify’s Founder and CEO, said, “I am very excited about 2025 and feel good about where we are as both a product and a business. We will continue to place bets that will drive long-term impact, increasing our speed while maintaining the levels of efficiency we achieved last year.

This combination will enable us to build the best and most valuable user experience, grow sustainably and deliver creativity to the world.”
Spotify’s ability to drive user engagement, expand its content offerings, and improve its monetization strategies continues to set it apart.

About Spotify  

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by allowing a million creative artists to live off their art and billions of fans to enjoy and be inspired by these creators. Our love for music drives everything we do.

Discover, manage, and share over 100 million tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features, including improved sound quality and an on-demand, offline, and ad-free music listening experience.

Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, with a community of more than 675 million users, including 263 million Spotify Premium subscribers, across more than 180 markets. We are also the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.

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