Spotify In The News

Chess Club: ‘We are on the cusp of halcyon days’

Chess Club has spent the last 10 years at the cutting edge of British A&R. Here we chat to founders Will Street and Peter McGaughrin

Why Spotify’s ‘fake artists’ issue, like so much in streaming, comes back to transparency

BASCA's Vick Bain on why Swedish service should make 'everything clearer' for songwriters - and for listeners

Despacito storms past 5bn streams milestone as Latin America takes flight

Analyst Mark Mulligan explains why record-breaking single may be 'the new normal'

‘There are an immense number of songwriters not making enough money to live on’

Wixen Music boss Randall Wixen on the value of music and the future for publishing

Forget about fake artists – it’s time to talk about fake streams.

We just bought 10,000 Spotify plays on the internet. It was easy.

Can Lyor Cohen bridge the Google ‘value gap’ at YouTube?

Can the experienced record exec bring together Google Play and YouTube for the good of everybody?

Despacito breaks all-time streaming records with 4.6bn plays in 6 months

Tracks has already scored more than 3bn plays on YouTube across official channels

Here’s Spotify’s biggest problem – in a Netflix-shaped nutshell

Spotify's average subscriber used to spend more than Netflix's. Things have changed.