Daniel Ek In The News

The US recorded music industry grew by over $1bn in 2020 – but faces big challenges over streaming’s pricing, and its future

The RIAA's latest figures show a surging streaming market – with one notable cause for concern

Spotify just secured $1.3bn in debt. What could it spend it on?

Notes would fully mature on (as in, be repayable by) March 15, 2026

Over 60,000 tracks are now uploaded to Spotify every day. That’s nearly one per second.

The numbers behind some major announcements from Spotify unveiled this week

Spotify to expand into over 80 new markets across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America

New markets include Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Pakistan

Spotify HiFi subscription to launch in select markets later this year

Spotify HiFi will deliver music in CD-quality, lossless audio

Former senior White House official Mona Sutphen to join Spotify Board of Directors

Sutphen served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2011

Daniel Ek: 3 things we learned from Spotify’s boss on the company’s Q4 earnings call

Spotify published its financial results Q4 2020 on Wednesday (February 3)

Spotify lost the equivalent of $2.2m every day in 2020… as it spent over $1bn on sales and marketing in the year

MBW shines the spotlight on SPOT's 2020 fiscal results – on the black ink... and the red ink