Spotify: cost of revenue share 2011-2024

Published by Patrick Leu, Mar 20, 2025

In 2024, around 70 percent of Spotify's revenues went mainly towards royalty payments towards music rights holders and other fees.

Share of Spotify's cost of revenue from 2011 to 2024

CharacteristicShare of costs in revenue
2024 69.85%
2023 74.35%
2022 75.05%
2021 73.2%
2020 74.43%
2019 74.54%
2018 74.27%
2017 79.24%
2016 86.41%
2015 88.35%
2014 83.96%
2013 82.84%
2012 89.82%
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Release date

February 2025

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2011 to 2024

Supplementary notes

2012 to 2022 data recalculated by Statista on basis of restated Spotify figures, 2011 data published via The Guardian in November 2014.
Cost of revenue does not solely refer to royalty fees paid out to artists.

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