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22,834subscribers

-439 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001536799768
TypeChannel
Username@spotify_rus_news
CreatedBetween 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live18 September 2026
Measurements held34
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 18 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/spotify_rus_news

Topic

Music — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Growth

22,83423,27323,053.57 August 2026 — 23,273 subscribers7 August 2026 — 23,273 subscribers8 August 2026 — 23,260 subscribers9 August 2026 — 23,246 subscribers10 August 2026 — 23,241 subscribers11 August 2026 — 23,229 subscribers12 August 2026 — 23,222 subscribers13 August 2026 — 23,210 subscribers14 August 2026 — 23,196 subscribers15 August 2026 — 23,174 subscribers17 August 2026 — 23,157 subscribers18 August 2026 — 23,145 subscribers19 August 2026 — 23,143 subscribers20 August 2026 — 23,133 subscribers21 August 2026 — 23,116 subscribers22 August 2026 — 23,095 subscribers24 August 2026 — 23,081 subscribers25 August 2026 — 23,060 subscribers26 August 2026 — 23,049 subscribers27 August 2026 — 23,037 subscribers28 August 2026 — 23,027 subscribers29 August 2026 — 23,013 subscribers30 August 2026 — 23,005 subscribers31 August 2026 — 22,992 subscribers1 September 2026 — 22,980 subscribers2 September 2026 — 22,974 subscribers3 September 2026 — 22,951 subscribers5 September 2026 — 22,944 subscribers8 September 2026 — 22,926 subscribers10 September 2026 — 22,908 subscribers12 September 2026 — 22,892 subscribers14 September 2026 — 22,876 subscribers16 September 2026 — 22,859 subscribers18 September 2026 — 22,834 subscribers7 August 202618 September 2026
34 measurements spanning 42 days, net -439. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 22,768–23,339 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 34
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
18 Sept 2026, 09:4122,834-25
16 Sept 2026, 03:5722,859-17
14 Sept 2026, 08:4122,876-16
12 Sept 2026, 20:2222,892-16
10 Sept 2026, 23:5622,908-18
8 Sept 2026, 01:4122,926-18
5 Sept 2026, 00:3822,944-7
3 Sept 2026, 09:5822,951-23
2 Sept 2026, 06:1322,974-6
1 Sept 2026, 07:3722,980-12
31 Aug 2026, 09:2322,992-13
30 Aug 2026, 08:3523,005-8
29 Aug 2026, 10:0623,013-14
28 Aug 2026, 08:4223,027-10
27 Aug 2026, 07:2423,037-12
26 Aug 2026, 08:4223,049-11
25 Aug 2026, 08:2223,060-21
24 Aug 2026, 05:1623,081-14
22 Aug 2026, 16:1423,095-21
21 Aug 2026, 07:5823,116first reading

Engagement

45 posts held, back to 18 July 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 57 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
14.6%
avg views ÷ 22,834 subscribers
Avg views / post
3,350
12 posts measured
Reaction rate
3.33%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
12
of 45 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 2 September 2026
Posts held45 (18 July 20262 September 2026)
Views total40,140
Reactions total1,338
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken3 Sept 2026, 11:56 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Video runtime
2m 07s
Average length
25s

Measured directly from 5 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no mark.

Reaction mix

6,684 reactions across 45 posts, in 35 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 63.2% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
4,22563.2%
5648.44%
🕊4066.07%
🤔2734.08%
🔥2203.29%
🤣1342.00%
❤‍🔥1261.89%
😭841.26%
💔781.17%
👍771.15%
👏761.14%
🤯701.05%
💩580.868%
🥰550.823%
🤡530.793%
👎250.374%
😁220.329%
🤮200.299%
🍾170.254%
💘160.239%
15 further kinds851.27%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 45 of the 45 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 6,684 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 45 most recent posts we hold, published 18 July 2026 to 2 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Telegram Stars

Stars received
2
across the posts below
Posts paid on
2
of 45 we hold a reading for · 4%
Most on one post
1
single highest reading

A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @spotify_rus_news. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.

Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.

This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.

Counted over the 45 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 18 July 2026 to 2 September 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.

Recent posts

2 Sept 2026, 14:59 UTC≈1,670 views77 reactionsread 3 September 2026
Video

😏 Лиса показала тизер «SaWaDiKa», а Джису дразнит новинкой «CLICK» 👉Фанатов BLACKPINK ждет невероятно насыщенный старт сентября: сразу две участницы группы готовят сольные премьеры и уже показали первые тизеры своих клипов: ▪️ Лиса показала визуальный тизер к заглавному треку «SaWaDiKa» со своего грядущего мини-альбома. Премьера видеоклипа и самого сингла состоится уже завтра, 3 сентября ❤️ ▪️Джису затизерила свой

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1 Sept 2026, 19:55 UTC≈2,350 views69 reactionsread 3 September 2026
Video

🌟 Юбилейный десятый: Майли Сайрус анонсировала альбом «Bass Persuades» и два сольных шоу 👉Майли Сайрус запускает новую музыкальную эру. Певица анонсировала свой юбилейный, десятый студийный альбом под названием «Bass Persuades», премьера которого намечена на 18 сентября. В пластинку войдут 10 треков ⤵️ ▪️«Bass Persuades» ▪️«Different Religion» (feat. Model/Actriz) ▪️«Let’s Get Married» ▪️«Orbit» ▪️«Aftermath» ▪️«R

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31 Aug 2026, 18:05 UTC≈2,800 views77 reactionsread 3 September 2026
Photo

🍯 Джем без подписки: «Spotify» может разрешить бесплатным пользователям создавать совместные сессии 👉«Spotify», похоже, собирается открыть одну из своих премиум-фич для всех слушателей. В коде свежей версии приложения для Android нашли намеки на то, что создавать совместные сессии «Джем» скоро разрешат пользователям без платной подписки. ▪️В обновленном коде требования к обязательной подписке для старта исчезли. В

6413

30 Aug 2026, 17:01 UTC≈3,050 views86 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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🥳 7 лет назад Лана Дель Рей выпустила «Norman Fucking Rockwell!» 👉Ровно 7 лет назад Лана Дель Рей выпустила «Norman Fucking Rockwell!». Пластинка 2019 года разрушила все старые стереотипы о певице как о грустной ретро-диве 💔 👏 Лана создала глубокую, поэтичную и взрослую работу, которая влюбила в себя миллионы. Даже скептичный «Pitchfork» признал ее одной из величайших американских авторов песен нашего времени, а са

84👏2

29 Aug 2026, 16:02 UTC≈3,210 views42 reactionsread 3 September 2026
Photo

🤔 Какую последнюю песню вы добавили в «Любимое»? 👉Время делиться музыкой. Покажите, какую последнюю песню вы добавили себе в «Любимое». Можно отправлять как скриншот, так и ссылку / название песни 😍 ⬇️ Отправляйте свои варианты в комменты! ❤️ Подключить Spotify Premium

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28 Aug 2026, 18:02 UTC≈3,390 views99 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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💥 Культовый альбом Рианны «ANTI» взял историческую планку в 10 миллиардов прослушиваний 👉Альбом Рианны «ANTI» официально пробил гигантскую отметку в 10 миллиардов прослушиваний на «Spotify». Для певицы это первый релиз в дискографии с такими цифрами и ее самый популярный альбом на платформе 😳 ◾️Главный парадокс, что пластинка вышла еще в 2016 году. Прошло уже много лет, Рианна с тех пор так и не выпустила новый сту

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27 Aug 2026, 17:03 UTC≈3,400 views73 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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👏 Больше 310 000 человек: Кэти Перри собрала рекордную толпу на фестивале в Мексике 👉Кэти Перри установила новый личный рекорд по посещаемости за всю карьеру. Ее бесплатное шоу на фестивале «FENAPO» в мексиканском городе Сан-Луис-Потоси собрало более 310 000 человек! 🤩 🏕 Многие фанаты дежурили в палатках возле сцены за несколько дней до старта, чтобы занять первые ряды. 🙏 Концерт получился очень душевным. Кэти тро

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26 Aug 2026, 14:01 UTC≈3,730 views261 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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😢 Ушла целая эпоха: не стало королевы кантри-музыки Долли Партон 👉В возрасте 80 лет ушла из жизни Долли Партон, икона кантри-музыки, автор вечных хитов и одна из самых влиятельных женщин в истории мировой сцены. О трагедии сообщил ее племянник. В знак общенационального траура в США на целую неделю приспустили государственные флаги 🇺🇸 🏆 За свою карьеру Долли написала более 3000 треков, 25 раз возглавляла чарты, забр

🕊203💔4015🤷‍♂3

25 Aug 2026, 18:04 UTC≈3,680 views153 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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💪 Исторический рекорд женских групп с 2008 года: KATSEYE возглавили американский Billboard 200 👉Их новый мини-альбом «WILD» влетел сразу на первую строчку главного альбомного чарта США Billboard 200, разойдясь тиражом в 170 тысяч копий за первую неделю. Это лучший дебют среди женских групп за последние 18 лет 🚀 ❤️‍🔥 Девушки уже поблагодарили поклонников за такую поддержку: 💬 «Видеть, как «WILD» отзывается в ваших

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24 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC≈3,930 views111 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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🥳 Новый сольный этап LISA из BLACKPINK: дата релиза EP «PRESS PLAY» и первый трек 👉LISA запускает следующую главу своей сольной карьеры. Артистка официально анонсировала новый мини-альбом под названием «PRESS PLAY». Ждать долго не придется 🎉 ▪️Первый сингл «SaWaDiKa» выходит уже 3 сентября; ▪️Полноценный релиз мини-альбома «PRESS PLAY» состоится 23 октября. ☝️ Судя по названию лид-сингла (традиционное тайское прив

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23 Aug 2026, 19:33 UTC≈4,470 views110 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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🏃‍♀️ В «Spotify» на Android появился «Режим бега» 👉Сервис добавил функцию Running Mode в приложение для Android — ранее она работала только на iOS. Опция доступна Premium-подписчикам в разделе «Фитнес» и превращает обычные плейлисты в персонализированные тренировочные сессии 💪 ▪️Пользователям доступны 25 готовых сценариев под разные жанры, 20-минутный микс «Просто беги» и голосовые подсказки на английском языке 💬

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22 Aug 2026, 20:15 UTC≈4,460 views180 reactionsread 3 September 2026
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🐕 Суд разрешил забрать гонорары Криса Брауна: 13 млн долларов спишут с тура с Ашером 👉Крис Браун попал на очень крупные деньги. Бывшая домработница артиста добилась права списать долг с его заработков от текущего совместного стадионного тура с Ашером 🏟 ☝️ История тянется еще с конца 2020 года, когда на женщину в особняке певца напала его овчарка. Пострадавшая получила травмы лица и рук, перенесла пересадки кожи и о

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Showing the 12 most recent of 45 posts we hold for @spotify_rus_news. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Mentions

Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

Named by

Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one

Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.

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Раньше всех. Ну почти.
@bbbreaking · 1,971,693
#69
Mash
@mash · 3,096,804
#70
Москва+
@moscowplus · 1,199,829
#71
Евровидение • Eurovision
@eurovisiontelegram · 23,925
#72
Лентач
@lentachold · 392,921
#73
Дудь
@yurydud · 864,661
#74
Романцев768 | Romancev768
@Romancev768 · 764,394
#75
HAUSOFGAGA
@hausofgaga_rus · 4,324
#76
Евровидение Live
@escworldclublive · 9,555
#77
Лентач
@oldlentach · 261,296
#78
Екатерина Шульман
@eschulmann · 303,468
#79
Big Geek
@biggeekru · 575,464
#80
GOSHA KARTSEV
@goshakartsev · 88,841
#81
ROGOV
@rogov24 · 189,541
#82
СОБЧАК
@ksbchk · 372,627
#83
Русский шаффл
@rushuffle · 44,171
#84
[BadComedian]
@TheBadComedian · 600,761
#85

Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 19 September 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

РАМУЗЫКА
@RamusicRu · 76,888
Telegram ranks this channel #6 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 19 August 2026
TERLETSKAYA LIVE
@terletskayalive · 37,059
Telegram ranks this channel #37 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 1 September 2026

This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Spotibot | Новости” (@spotify_rus_news), 22,834 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/spotify_rus_news.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.