Spotify is expanding its push into the book world with the launch of Audiobook Charts in the United States and the United Kingdom, introducing a new way for users to track the most popular and fast-rising titles on the platform.
Spotify’s newly announced Charts funtions is similar to the service’s existing music and podcast rankings. Updated weekly, they highlight top audiobooks overall as well as leading titles across genres, with placements determined by listener engagement and consumption data.
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Available to both free and premium users, the Audibook Charts live inside the Audiobooks hub within the app. Users can access them through the Search tab by selecting the Audiobooks tile and scrolling to the “Dive deeper” section.
On the first day live in the U.S., top audiobooks included Wuthering Heights, Atomic Habits, The Housemaid, Stripped Down, and plenty of other trending titles.
The company says the feature is designed to make audiobook discovery more intuitive while helping publishers and authors reach wider audiences.
“When content is easier to access, discover, and enjoy, the demand grows,” said Duncan Bruce, the platform’s director of audiobook partnerships and licensing, in a statement announcing the launch.
The charts arrive as part of a broader investment in spoken-word content following the company’s entry into audiobooks in 2022. Spotify also recently introduced its Page Match feature, which lets listeners scan a physical book page to instantly jump to the same spot in the audiobook — a move that helps bridge reading and listening and makes its new discovery tools more useful for people who switch between formats.
Spotify has also been experimenting with more personalized listening tools, including its new Prompted Playlist feature, which lets users generate highly specific playlists using detailed text prompts tied to their listening history. The beta tool gives listeners deeper control over Spotify’s recommendation algorithm, signaling the company’s broader push toward AI-driven discovery across music, podcasts, and now audiobooks.
The move also comes alongside new commerce experiments, including plans to sell physical books directly in the app through a partnership with Bookshop.org, signaling a deeper expansion into the publishing ecosystem.
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You’ll soon also be able to purchase physical books directly from the Spotify app.
