Spotify In The News

Spotify to acquire AI voice platform Sonantic

Firm built the AI voice model for actor Val Kilmer used in Top Gun: Maverick

Kate Bush had the biggest record in the UK last week, but she’s not No.1 on the Official Chart. This is a watershed moment for a music industry struggling to understand the meaning of ‘new’.

Kate Bush has been robbed in her home nation. The music industry must learn lessons from what it says.

From Spotify’s 1bn user target to TuneCore’s pricing overhaul: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter

K-pop giant SM Entertainment strikes licensing deal with NetEase Cloud Music

NetEase Cloud Music granted the right to distribute SM's music catalog

Music’s biggest companies are waiting for a Spotify price rise. For now, Spotify isn’t budging.

Daniel Ek is wondering if Netflix "didn't get ahead of itself" with its streaming price rises...

‘Music creation has changed, fan behavior has changed, and therefore, artists’ needs for digital music distribution have changed too.’

The following MBW op/ed comes from Andreea Gleeson, Chief Executive Officer of DIY distribution company TuneCore

Spotify says it can hit 1bn users globally by 2030. But its MAU growth is slowing in Latin America.

MBW analysis shows that Spotify's LatAm MAU growth was smaller in 2021 than it was in 2020

After raising $34m, beatBread closes ‘seven figure artist financing deal’ with singer-songwriter Elley Duhe

beatBread claims to have made advances to almost 400 artists since November 2020