What’s most interesting here for those of us outside Sweden is to compare the lists of the three platforms and see how platform exclusivity impacts consumers, and also which authors and titles from outside Sweden are resonating with the Swedish consumer.

The three main digital subscription channels in Sweden, BookBeat, Nextory and Storytel, have produced their lists of the most popular titles, authors and narrators on their respective platforms. N.B. the list is specifically for Sweden and of course is not quite the full year.

What’s most interesting here for those of us outside Sweden is to compare the lists of the three platforms and see how platform exclusivity impacts consumers, and also which authors and titles from outside Sweden are resonating with the Swedish consumer.

This year’s most listened audiobooks on BookBeat 2020

  1. Spegelmannen – Lars Kepler
  2. Where the crayfish sing – Delia Owens
  3. Mythomaniac – Sofie Sarenbrant
  4. Wings of silver – Camilla Läckberg
  5. The Seven Sisters – Lucinda Riley
  6. Moon Sister – Lucinda Riley
  7. Stormsister – Lucinda Riley
  8. Before the clouds come – Mari Jungstedt
  9. The Pearl Sister – Lucinda Riley
  10. The Shadow Sister – Lucinda Riley
    This year’s most listened author on BookBeat 2020
  11. Lucinda Riley
  12. Sofie Sarenbrant
  13. Lars Kepler
  14. Margit Sandemo
  15. JK Rowling
  16. Camilla Läckberg
  17. Nora Roberts
  18. Anna Jansson
  19. Jussi Adler-Olsen
  20. Jan Guillou
    This year’s most listened narrators on BookBeat 2020
  21. Gunilla Leining
  22. Katarina Ewerlöf
  23. Stefan Sauk
  24. Anna Maria Käll
  25. Jonas Malmsjö
  26. Marie Richardson
  27. Mirja Turestedt
  28. Julia Dufvenius
  29. Magnus Roosmann
  30. Tomas Bolme

Most listened audiobooks on Nextory 2020 – adults

  1. Wings of silver – Camilla Läckberg
  2. Double life: A true story – Iris Mårtenson
  3. A cage of gold – Camilla Läckberg
  4. The mythomaniac – Sofie Sarenbrant
  5. Where the crayfish sing – Delia Owens
  6. Fall asleep fast – Camilla Gyllensvan
  7. Shame corner – Sofie Sarenbrant
  8. Spegelmannen – Lars Kepler
  9. Rest in peace – Sofie Sarenbrant
  10. Before the clouds come – Mari Jungstedt
    Most listened audiobooks on Nextory 2020 – children
  11. LasseMaja’s summer holiday book: A day at the beach – Martin Widmark
  12. Bockarna Bruse – Josefin Götestam & Staffan Götestam
  13. Who saves Alfons Åberg? – Gunilla Bergström
  14. The rabbit who did not want to sleep – Lilian Edvall
  15. Vattenlandet – Petrus Dahlin
  16. The summer shadow and the Halloween prank – Tina Mackic
  17. A Minecraft zombies diary 1: My life as a zombie – Zack Zombie
  18. Bamse and Dunderklockan – Fabian Nordlander, Joakim Gunnarsson & Tomas Tivemark
  19. Mickey Mouse & Helium: Time to Sleep – Camilla Brinck
  20. Good night Alfons Åberg – Gunilla Bergström
    Most popular narrators on Nextory 2020
  21. Katarina Ewerlöf
  22. Gunilla Leining
  23. Callin Öhrvall Delmar
  24. Mirja Turestedt
  25. Anna Maria Käll
  26. Charlotta Jonsson
  27. Marie Richardson
  28. Stefan Sauk
  29. Jonas Malmsjö
  30. Viktoria Flodströmistics

This year’s most listened readers on Storytel 2020

  1. Gunilla Leining
  2. Katarina Ewerlöf
  3. Stefan Sauk
  4. Anna Maria Käll
  5. Jonas Malmsjö
  6. Magnus Roosman
  7. Marie Richardson
  8. Tomas Bolme
  9. Julia Dufvenius
  10. Reine Brynolfsson
    This year’s most listened author on Storytel 2020
  11. JK Rowling
  12. Laila Brenden
    Lucinda Riley
  13. Margit Sandemo
  14. Sofie Sarenbrant
  15. Jan Guillou
  16. Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson
  17. Anna Jansson
  18. Lars Kepler
  19. Nora Roberts
    This year’s most listened books on Storytel 2020
  20. Mythomaniac – Sofie Sarenbrant, read by Katarina Ewerlöf, Bookmark Publisher
  21. Wings of silver – Camilla Läckberg, read by Mirja Turestedt, Bokförlaget Forum
  22. Where the crayfish sing – Delia Owens, read by Anna Maria Käll, Bonnier Audio
  23. Before the clouds come – Mari Jungstedt, read by Katarina Ewerlöf, Albert Bonniers Förlag
  24. Spegelmannen – Lars Kepler, read by Jonas Malmsjö, Albert Bonniers Förlag
  25. The death list – Anna Jansson, read by Marie Richardsson, Norstedts
  26. A cage of gold – Camilla Läckberg, read by Mirja Turestedt, Bonner Audio
  27. Frozen gold – Rolf Börjling & Cilla Börjlind, uploaded by Nina Zanjani, Norstedts
  28. Where’s Olle? – Part 1. The Disappearance – Martin Ezpeleta, uploaded by Martin Ezpeleta, Storytel Original
  29. Knutbyflickan – Life in the sect’s innermost circle – Linnéa Kuling, read by Linnéa Kuling, Storytel Original

All lists courtesy of Boktugg. See links above for more on each list.