Spotify In The News

Bruno Mars just shattered Spotify’s monthly listeners record… and he hasn’t even got a new album out.

Mars currently has more than 135 million monthly listeners on the platform, way ahead of the previous record set by The Weeknd

Interviews

As Believe UK celebrates its 15th anniversary, key executives Ben Rimmer, Alex Kennedy and Malena Wolfer talk recent successes and what comes next.

Three top Believe UK execs celebrate the company’s 15 anniversary and look to its future...

Analysis

Spotify paid Warner Music Group $1.16bn in FY 2024. (That’s around the same amount the streamer’s execs have cashed out in stock this year.)

Warner's financial filings reveal Spotify's contribution to the company's revenues in the 12 months to end of September

Analysis News

Key Spotify executives have cashed out more than $1 billion in stock this year… including $283 million for Daniel Ek.

Following a series of blockbuster earnings reports, Spotify's stock is trading near all-time highs

News

Drake files ANOTHER legal petition over Not Like Us; accuses Universal of ‘inappropriate business practices’ including a ‘payola’ scheme to turn Kendrick Lamar’s diss track into a mega-hit. Read the full filing.

'The suggestion that UMG would do anything to undermine any of its artists is offensive and untrue,' said a UMG spokesperson in response to the first filing on Monday (November 25)

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Deezer becomes latest streaming service to integrate TikTok’s ‘Add to Music App’ feature

Feature allows TikTok users to save songs discovered on the platform to their preferred music streaming service

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Drake claims Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ was ‘Artificially Inflated’ by Universal Music and Spotify. UMG says allegations are ‘offensive and untrue’

Not Like Us has been nominated for five Grammys

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At $45.5bn in 2023, music copyright now worth more globally than cinema, new report finds

Music copyright's value is up a “jaw-dropping” 26% since 2021, and nearly double the $25 billion in 2014