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Sirius XM has about 28.5 million self-pay subscribers and Pandora has 6.8 million paying subscribers, compared with 87 million for Spotify and about 45 million for Apple Music.

National Public Radio was the top podcast publisher with 41 active shows and a unique monthly audience of 16.4 million in September, according to researcher Podtrac.