Not all curators listen the same way. Some play your track straight through with no skips. Others jump around, sampling different moments to find the hook or hear how the song develops. Both are completely normal, and both count as a real listen.
When a curator jumps around, our player quietly notes the spots they land on. If they sampled more than one spot, you'll see a Listening details row on their response with a count like "3 points checked." Expand it and you'll see the timestamps they landed on, for example "Points checked: 0:14, 1:02, 2:30."
It's a sign of engagement, not skipping
Jumping to the chorus, then the intro, then the bridge is just how a lot of curators size up a song quickly: they're hunting for the catchy moments. It does not mean they ignored your track or weren't paying attention.
Why the timestamps can look scattered
We show the positions sorted and de-duplicated, so they read as points in the song rather than a play-by-play of the order they were clicked. Out-of-order or clustered timestamps are expected and nothing to read into.
Not the same as listen time
Listening details is about where in the track they sampled, which is separate from the total listen time we show elsewhere. See the "Why do some songs say 'listened for X seconds'..." article for how we measure duration.