

More recently, though, Spotify has focused on podcasts for its content growth. In the modern day, Spotify’s peers have as many songs (or more) as Spotify does. Apple Music’s library, also as of last year, passed 90 million tracks, surpassing Spotify as the service with the largest library, while YouTube Music is right at Spotify’s level, having accumulated 80 million tracks by 2021. That figure is now past 82 million, as of 2021, but is also more closely matched by the library size of rivals Amazon Music Unlimited, Tidal, Deezer and Qobuz. At the time of our last review, Spotify’s catalogue had over 30 million songs – ‘significantly more than competing services’, we said, and more than you could ever listen to.
