Loudness and headroom
What LUFS to master for Spotify.
Spotify normalizes default playback to -14 dB integrated LUFS (measured to ITU-R BS.1770-4) and recommends a true-peak ceiling of -1 dBTP, or -2 dBTP if your master is louder than -14 LUFS (Spotify for Artists Loudness Normalization). Drop your master below to measure integrated LUFS, loudness range and true peak in your browser.
Integrated
Loudness range
True peak
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Cited standards
Where each loudness figure comes from.
Spotify documents three playback normalization levels in Spotify for Artists: Loudness normalization: -14 dB LUFS for Normal, -19 dB LUFS for Quiet, and -11 dB LUFS for Loud (with a dynamic limiter that engages at -1 dBTP). For lossy transcoding headroom, Spotify asks for a maximum true peak of -1 dBTP on tracks at or below -14 LUFS, and -2 dBTP on tracks louder than -14 LUFS.
Integrated loudness is measured per ITU-R BS.1770-4 using K-weighting, 400 ms gating blocks overlapped at 100 ms, an absolute gate at -70 LUFS, and a relative gate 10 LU below the ungated mean. Loudness range (LRA) is measured per EBU Tech 3342 across 3 second blocks from the 10th to the 95th percentile.