In his most-recent blog post, Pandora founder Tim Westergren revealed the breadth and depth of Pandora listeners' streaming tastes (and the service's offerings) as reflected in some broad-based 2012 listening stats.
According to his stats, Pandora listners heard more than a million different songs by over 100,000 different artists in 2012. Of these artists, 10% were streamed to more than a quarter-million unique listeners. This totalled over 13 billion hours of music in 2012.
"The Pandora audience is large enough now to begin making a real difference in the lives of thousands of working artists," wrote Westergren.
Read Westergren's blog here.
Using data from BDS (Broadcast Data Systems), it ranks the top web radio streams and on-demand audio titles from services like Spotify, Muve, Slacker, Rhapsody, Rdio, MySpace, Xbox Music, and Guvera.
We're happy to announce our second-annual RAIN Summit Europe industry event, May 23 in gorgeous Brussels, Belgium. We'll gather with Internet radio leaders from across Europe and around the world at the Hotel Bloom for a full day of informative panels, presentations and networking.
