Spotify In The News

The 5 biggest music business news stories of 2017. (Yes, 2017.)

Google, Facebook, Columbia and Spotify will all feature heavily on MBW next year

You can now search Apple Music by composer

When tracks are in your library - songwriter info is attached

Sir Lucian Grainge’s festive message – read it in full

Exec covers Kanye West, streaming, SoundCloud and more in end of year missive

Atlantic’s Craig Kallman: ‘Artists are smart about the music business. They sign to people who believe in them.’

Atlantic's CEO and co-Chairman talks breaking artists, Julie Greenwald, sound quality and Ahmet Ertegun

The global music copyright business is worth more than you think – and grew by nearly $1bn last year

Spotify's economics chief Will Page explains how both publishing and records are growing

Elton John protests YouTube’s copyright protections, then teams up with… YouTube

Universal backs project with Google's video giant, amid 'value gap' hubbub

Why 2016 will go down as a giant year for the global recorded music business

Every major market's income was up in H1, aside from Japan

Apple Music surpasses 20m paying subscribers 17 months after launch

Apple has added ten million subscribers in 2016 alone