Music Business News: Sweden News French-language music streams surge 192% on Spotify since 2019 French music listening now totals more than 64 million hours per month worldwide, according to Spotify’s latest Francophone Report for June 2025. News Sir Lucian Grainge’s interview with Spotify’s Alex Norström at Brilliant Minds: 5 things we learned… Universal Music Group's Chairman and CEO sat down for a fireside chat with Spotify's Co-President, Chief Business Officer at the Brilliant Minds conference last week News Max Martin invests in MAIA Universe, as music tech startup closes $1.3m round, strikes new licensing deals Martin joined MAIA Universe as an investor through his company MxM News Spotify has reached 100m paying subscribers in Europe, Daniel Ek confirms Spotify reported on April 29 that it grew its global Premium Subscriber base to 268m paying users in Q1 Analysis News From HYBE’s reported expansion plans to Martin Lorentzon’s Spotify stock cash-outs… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place… News Martin Lorentzon just cashed out $666m worth of Spotify stock in less than a week ...across two transactions from Lorentzon and his holding company, Rosello Co. Ltd News Daniel Ek has now cashed out $800m+ in Spotify stock, with his latest transaction banking $28.8m Ek offloaded 50,000 shares on Wednesday at $576.94 per share, according to an SEC filing News Epidemic Sound acquires AI startup Song Sleuth to tackle music’s ‘black box’ problem The Stockholm-based soundtracking platform is launching a new service called Aentidote aimed at identifying unclaimed and undistributed royalties1 2 … 74 Next
News French-language music streams surge 192% on Spotify since 2019 French music listening now totals more than 64 million hours per month worldwide, according to Spotify’s latest Francophone Report for June 2025.
News Sir Lucian Grainge’s interview with Spotify’s Alex Norström at Brilliant Minds: 5 things we learned… Universal Music Group's Chairman and CEO sat down for a fireside chat with Spotify's Co-President, Chief Business Officer at the Brilliant Minds conference last week
News Max Martin invests in MAIA Universe, as music tech startup closes $1.3m round, strikes new licensing deals Martin joined MAIA Universe as an investor through his company MxM
News Spotify has reached 100m paying subscribers in Europe, Daniel Ek confirms Spotify reported on April 29 that it grew its global Premium Subscriber base to 268m paying users in Q1
Analysis News From HYBE’s reported expansion plans to Martin Lorentzon’s Spotify stock cash-outs… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Martin Lorentzon just cashed out $666m worth of Spotify stock in less than a week ...across two transactions from Lorentzon and his holding company, Rosello Co. Ltd
News Daniel Ek has now cashed out $800m+ in Spotify stock, with his latest transaction banking $28.8m Ek offloaded 50,000 shares on Wednesday at $576.94 per share, according to an SEC filing
News Epidemic Sound acquires AI startup Song Sleuth to tackle music’s ‘black box’ problem The Stockholm-based soundtracking platform is launching a new service called Aentidote aimed at identifying unclaimed and undistributed royalties