Market Analysis - Take434/Appollon GitHub Wiki
Appollon is designed to offer any person with a Spotify account easily-accessible statistics about their Spotify usage. According to a blog by appinventive, 52% of users listen to Spotify on their phone [7]. Furthermore, the age of most Spotify users ranges from 18 to 34 with 55% back in March 2018 in the USA [5].
This leads to a big potential audience with different interests in focus. Depending on the interest of the person, they can use different features within the application. Like comparing their statistics with friends and family or getting an in-depth insight into their listening behavior, like genres and artists or more specific: a breakdown of their playlists audio features.
Spotify is the largest music streaming service in the world with a total of 515 million monthly active users at the start of 2023. This number consists of 210 million premium subscriptions and 305 million free accounts [1]. Adding onto this, is Spotify's steady increase in monthly active users across the past 8 years [2].
Furthermore Spotify has a system called "Spotify Wrapped", which is a highlight of the users activity on Spotify at the end of the year. This feature contains statistics about a users most streamed tracks, favorite artists and popular playlists, supported by listening time. It also gives insights into unique tracks or genres, that they listened to [6]. Spotify Wrapped is highly valued by the community with more than 400 million social media posts featuring it in the first 3 days of its release last year, as described in a Sprout Blog [3]. This proves the interest of Spotify users in their statistics.
There are already a handful of Apps, which displays data about users listening behavior, e.g Stats for Spotify and Spotify Track. These share many similarities like displaying top artists, top genres and top tracks. This next section will discuss the features of Stats for Spotify.
Stats for Spotify has 4 main features:
- Displaying the top tracks
 currently not visible because the license has to be checked
source: [4] - Displaying the top artists
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source: [4] - Displaying the top Genres
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source: [4] - Displaying the recently played tracks
 currently not visible because the license has to be checked
source: [4]
Furthermore, it allows to change the time period of your rankings between the last 4 weeks, the last 6 months and of all time. This website enables simple usage of these 4 features and has a really basic design with the focus on the actual data. All of this data can be collected straight from the API without any processing, the only thing required for that, is the permission from the User. While the website is great at displaying raw data, design was not the developers' focus. The Spotify API offers much more data than this website displays:
- information about genres for tracks and artists
- audio features for tracks
- recommendations based on artists/tracks/genres and said audio features
Due to this, Appollon focused on the design part and revealing more detailed data. At the time of writing this, the recommendations are not yet implemented, though it is something for the future.
The application uses Nextjs newest experimental feature called server-actions. Since they were just recently released, they do not support a PWA (progressive web app). The server-actions lack in-depth documentations for building a PWA and there are other frameworks and libraries that offer better support. While most features of a PWA would be useful for Appollon, including an offline-modus and an app-like design.
[1] Spotify Finances PDF accessed on 20.07.2023
[2] Statista Spotify Monthly Active Users accessed on 20.07.2023
[3] Sprout Blog by Katie Woods Link accessed on 25.07.2023
[4] Stats for Spotify Images accessed on 24.07.2023
[5] Statista Spotify users by age in the U.S. 2018 accessed on 25.07.2023
[6] Spotify Spotify Wrapped accessed on 25.07.2023
[7] appinventiv Blog by Prateek Saxena Spotify Statistics Facts accessed on 31.07.2023