Spotify In The News

‘Spotify for concerts’ app gets $8m boost from funding round

Jukely backers include Lyor Cohen

Spotify’s Daniel Ek launches conference for ‘Brilliant Minds’. Tickets cost $2,900.

Symposium Stockholm takes place between June 8-13

Americans really don’t want to pay for music in their cars

80% of US drivers listening to free music say they would not be willing to pay in future

Jay Z accuses Tidal rivals of ‘smear campaign’ as platform hits 770k subscribers

'Our actions will speak louder than our words', says Shawn Carter

Don’t spend it all at once, artists: Pandora is paying out $0.0001 more per stream than it was last year

Service now paying out $0.0014 each time an ad-funded user streams

Songwriters suffer from ‘nonsensical disparity’ of streaming payments… says a Grammy-winning artist

'The time for change is now', argues Ne-Yo

Pandora loses 2m listeners and $48m in three months

Total active listeners fall under 80m people

Facebook has 10 times as many users as Spotify and Pandora combined

Total video views on social network now rival YouTube