Spotify just dropped weekly Audiobook Charts for the US and UK, and if you’re an audiobook author who’s been feeling invisible on the platform… this is worth your attention.
The charts rank audiobooks by overall popularity and by genre, updated every week, available to free and premium users alike. Genre categories at launch include romance, mystery and thriller, self-help, sci-fi and fantasy, and biography and memoir. If your books land in any of those lanes, you now have a dedicated ranking to show up on.
Why This Is Actually Interesting
Amazon’s bestseller lists have been the yardstick for audiobook visibility forever, and those lists are driven by sales volume. Spotify’s charts work differently. They’re based on listening behavior and engagement, which means a book that hooks listeners and keeps them coming back could chart even without a massive launch-day push.
That rewards retention over raw purchase numbers.
For indie authors, that’s a genuinely different game. It tends to favor well-crafted, genre-satisfying books over books with the biggest marketing budgets. Which is exactly what most of us are trying to write anyway (I hope ;)).
How to Find the Charts
In the Spotify app, tap Search, select the Audiobooks tile, scroll to the “Dive deeper” shelf, and you’ll see Audiobook Charts. Works on both iOS and Android.
Spotify Is Going All In
This isn’t a one-off feature drop. In the past month alone, Spotify launched Page Match (a feature that syncs your audiobook to the page you’re reading in a physical book) and announced a partnership with Bookshop.org for in-app book purchasing later this spring. Their catalog now tops 250,000 titles.
For authors distributing audiobooks through Findaway Voices, ACX, ElevenLabs, or other AI narration tools, Spotify is becoming harder to ignore. Charts are one more signal that they’re building real infrastructure for audiobooks, not just parking them on a shelf somewhere.
So What Should You Do?
If you have an audiobook on Spotify, go check where it lands. If you don’t have one on Spotify yet, this is another reason to think about audiobook distribution beyond Audible. Every platform that actively surfaces and ranks audiobooks is another way for listeners to stumble onto your work.