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Spotify storms past 60m subscribers, now adding more than 2m a month

Daniel Ek's company races ahead of Apple Music by adding 10m subs since March

Can Lyor Cohen bridge the Google ‘value gap’ at YouTube?

Can the experienced record exec bring together Google Play and YouTube for the good of everybody?

Here’s Spotify’s biggest problem – in a Netflix-shaped nutshell

Spotify's average subscriber used to spend more than Netflix's. Things have changed.

Why Spotify’s fake artists problem is an Epidemic. Literally.

The tall tale of three Swedish companies, with their own economic interests

Spotify denies it’s playlisting fake artists. So why are all these fake artists on its playlists?

If Daniel Ek's company isn't adding fake artists to playlists, how come we've found 50 of them?

YouTube loses ground on US subscription music streaming in first six months of 2017

Both single-track downloads and digital album sales fall 24% compared to 2016

Jay-Z’s 4:44, a TIDAL exclusive, illegally downloaded nearly 1m times in 3 days

MUSO data shows 56% of illegal activity around album took place in the US

If Spotify’s going to become profitable, it needs to make some changes

How alterations in marketing spend, advertising revenue and international income could help fix Daniel Ek's business