SiriusXM and Pandora announced today the launch of Pandora NOW, to be featured on both SiriusXM and Pandora services.
As the first cross-platform effort since Sirius bought Pandora last September, NOW offers the most listened-to music on Pandora as a new curated station.
For SiriusXM listeners, NOW is a new channel (Channel 3) that lets you hear the most popular songs on Pandora as curated by SiriusXM.
For Pandora users, the same is offered as a new station that lets you skip songs, and rate them thumbs up and down.
Currently, Cardi B, Post Malone and Khalid are the most listened to artists on Pandora.
The new station includes top songs from all genres: pop, hip hop, R&B and more.
The channel combines “the wealth of Pandora listener data with the proven curation expertise of our SiriusXM team to give our combined 100 million listeners a truly unique and unprecedented listening experience. Not only will Pandora NOW give listeners exclusive, up-to-the-moment access to the music people are streaming on Pandora the most, but it will let music fans influence which songs are played,” said SiriusXM President Scott Greenstein.
How is Cardi B a most listened to artist? Speaks volumes to the world we live in.
The statistic likely takes into account the free account Pandora users. Wonder how the ranking were different if only measured on the paid accounts.