The year on Spotify: Halloween
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Understand the moment
Ghouls just want to have fun during the Halloween season. Sorry, we had to. With over 2 million Halloween-themed playlists on Spotify, curated screams and shouts keep the party going.
Listeners also turn to heady true crime podcasts to get into the spirit. And apparently revisiting your past makes for a spooky time—we see an increase in streams of classic oldies during this season, too.
- 31%
Killer parties
31% increase in party playlist streams on Halloween compared to the October daily average - 44%
Crime time
44% increase in true crime podcast streams during the month of October - 75%
Ladies first
75% of true crime podcast listeners are women - 54%
Get nostalgic
54% increase in Oldies streams from September - October 2019
Source: Spotify Internal Data, Global, 2020.
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