Spotify In The News

Tencent Music is ‘windowing’ premium music behind a streaming paywall – with ‘encouraging results’

TME is putting premium music behind a paywall. Should Spotify and Apple follow suit?

Spotify launches cloud-based podcast studio, Soundtrap for Storytellers

The service is available today and is priced at $14.99/month

Warner/Chappell signs Melendi, one of Spain’s biggest pop stars

He has sold more than 4 million records to date

Create Music Group launches free app for songwriters to generate split agreements

Create has been beta testing the app since January

Warner boss Steve Cooper warns against ‘devaluation’ of music from freemium streaming services, and their ‘mismanaged’ family plans

Rhetoric from major label group hardens in wake of India Spotify fallout

Pandora launches discounted plans for students and military

Student Plan offers full Pandora Premium features for $4.99/month

The average salary of a Spotify employee hit $132,301 last year – more than double what it was in 2011

How the salaries at streaming music's market leader have changed over the past decade

Payola 2.0: The native ad model for streaming music?

Feature.fm President David Porter on why 'sponsored songs' will be big business for streaming