Price ladder
On the default option, 1,000 monthly listeners cost ₹699 and 5,000 cost ₹3,495. They cost more than plays because each listener has to be a separate account. US and UK listeners cost several times more.
What you're paying for
Monthly listeners is a rolling 28-day count of unique accounts that streamed you. An order streams your tracks from many accounts across that window, so the number rises and then falls back once the streams drop out of it. You're paying for a temporary number.
The risk
Because the order streams your music, it's artificial streaming. Spotify filters it, pays nothing on it, and charges distributors for tracks with significant artificial streaming. Distributors can remove releases and withhold royalties.
Tiers
Starter is cheapest and filtered most. Stable spreads streams more evenly. Premium uses sources that hold best. None is safe from Spotify's filters.
How promoters read the number
Promoters and agents often look at monthly listeners alongside followers, saves and top cities. A sudden spike in listeners with no change in followers, followed by a drop a month later, is a common sign of a bought number.
A better use of the budget
The price of 5,000 monthly listeners can fund a two-week Instagram or YouTube campaign aimed at your genre's audience. Those listeners stay in the count if they come back, and some follow you.
Prices are all-inclusive
Rupee prices, no GST or gateway fee. Undelivered amounts are refunded to your wallet; streams Spotify removes later aren't.
Paying
Top up by UPI from ₹100 and pay from your wallet.
Artist link
Monthly listener orders use your artist link, open.spotify.com/artist/, from Share and Copy Link to Artist.
Our recommendation
Don't buy monthly listeners for a profile that matters. If your profile looks empty, artist followers carry far less risk.
Example spend
A Jaipur Rajasthani folk-fusion band was offered a slot at a city festival, and the organisers asked for their Spotify numbers. Instead of buying listeners, the band spent about the same amount on a two-week Instagram campaign aimed at Rajasthan and Delhi, and posted three Reels from rehearsals. Their monthly listeners roughly doubled from real fans, and the number held after the festival.
Targeted listeners
US, UK, Brazilian and German listener options cost several times more than mixed ones, and carry the same risk. If your goal is to show listeners in a particular country, real promotion there, such as ads, collaborations or a gig, produces numbers that last.