Spotify In The News

Spotify hit 96m paying subscribers in 2018 – and just posted its first ever operating profit

Firm predicts that subscriber count will reach approximately 122m by end of 2019

Spotify buys not one, but two podcasting companies: Gimlet Media and Anchor

Gimlet deal believed to have cost Spotify circa $230m

Class action lawsuits filed in New York against Sony and Universal

The suits seek damages for copyright infringement and declaratory relief

EMPIRE hires Amir Abbassy in Content role and Peter Kadin as VP of Marketing

Company will soon release music from Iggy Azalea and Robin Thicke

Music Modernization Act: Labels and publishers back NMPA’s bid to run new mechanical rights society

Universal, Sony and Warner, as well as indies, support publisher org's application

Marshmello just played a live set to 10m people in video game Fortnite – and that wasn’t even the most interesting move he made this weekend

DJ's new single, performed in Hindi, is out now, featuring Pritam

English-language music is losing its stranglehold on global pop charts – and YouTube is driving the change

When YouTube’s charts say what's popular, you better believe it. And, right now, "what's popular" applies increasingly less to U.S. pop stars.

Spotify in talks to buy podcasting company Gimlet Media – reports

Gimlet creates podcasts such as Startup, Crimetown and The Pitch