Playlist preferences on music streaming services U.S. 2017-2019
According to data gathered in the second quarter of 2019, 55 percent of music subscribers were listening to playlists compiled by music streaming services, up from 27 percent in the first quarter of 2017. This growing trend towards listening to playlists curated by services themselves suggests an increase in more passive listening, although the improved playlist features on music platforms will also have had an effect on subscribers' habits.