AI Brand Chart: Music streaming, latest edition 2026-w42
5 AI models, 60 buying scenarios, edition 2026-w42, data as of October 17, 2026.
Brand names only: the models saw each option as a brand name, with no product facts, and answered from their own knowledge.
Fast panel: the fast or small current models of each vendor, not the full flagship panel.
Tiers, not strict ranks
How to read this
A position is only the order of the estimates, and arrows show how that order moved since the last edition: brands in one tier cannot be told apart from its leader at 95% confidence, and each rank is an interval. Rails show the conditional pick share (among answers that picked a brand) in shortlists of 4 (chance is 25%).
Changed beyond noise: for this brand alone, the 95% interval of its share change excludes 0. Lineup or panel changes between editions can cause it too, and it is never a rank claim.
Display order since the last edition, not strict ranks. Moves without a badge are within the margin.
- 1NewSpotifyNew on the chart in this edition.74% (61%–85%)1 week
- 2NewApple MusicNew on the chart in this edition.52% (39%–64%)1 week
- 3NewYouTube MusicNew on the chart in this edition.30% (19%–41%)1 week
- 4NewDeezerNew on the chart in this edition.30% (20%–41%)1 week
- 5NewAmazon MusicNew on the chart in this edition.28% (16%–40%)1 week
- 6NewTIDALNew on the chart in this edition.27% (18%–37%)1 week
- 7NewQobuzNew on the chart in this edition.18% (8%–30%)1 week
- 8NewPandoraNew on the chart in this edition.10% (3%–20%)1 week
- 9NewSoundCloudNew on the chart in this edition.7% (1%–18%)1 week
- 10NewLiveOneNew on the chart in this edition.2% (0%–9%)1 week
- 11NewiHeartRadioNew on the chart in this edition.0% (0%–9%)1 week