Spotify In The News

‘I realised that no-one in the music business knew what they were doing’

High Time founder Carl Hitchborn on growing his business - and taking advantage of music industry failures

After spending nearly $250m on Carlin, Round Hill Music is hungry for more

Josh Gruss talks acquisitions, major publishers and buying copyrights

BASCA calls on music publishers to share Facebook, Spotify money

#soldforasong campaign is also asking for advance payments from Facebook to be shared with writers and composers

Daniel Ek could net up to $2bn from Spotify share sales when company goes public (if he wants to)

Co-founder Martin Lorentzon could sell up to $2.9bn-worth of shares

Spotify hires Vevo’s Tom Connaughton as Head of Artist & Label Marketing, UK

Troy Carter says exec will be "a tremendous asset" to Spotify

The exec who took Netflix public just gave a storming defence of Spotify’s future business plan

CFO Barry McCarthy explains why Daniel Ek's company believes it will beat its rivals "like a drum"

Nick Huggett named Chief Creative Officer at Because Music in the UK

Huggett has signed the likes of Adele, Rizzle Kicks and M.I.A during his career

Facebook inks pan-European licensing deals with Wixen, Sacem and Socan

News follows recent agreements with Universal Music Group and Sony/ATV