Number of Pandora's active users in the U.S. 2013-2023
Pandora business model
Pandora Internet Radio is a part of the Music Genome Project that provides a music streaming service as well as music recommendations. The Music Genome Project uses 450 attributes to describe a song and an algorithm that organizes a wide range of music. Currently, Pandora is only available to users in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.Since its launch in January 2000, Pandora Internet Radio has vastly increased its number of active users. As of December 31, 2016, Pandora boasted 81 million active users. In comparison, Spotify hit the 100 million user mark in June 2016, although this streaming service is also available in most of Europe and South America, parts of Australasia, and various other countries in the world.