Music Business News: Sweden News Daniel Ek poured €100m into Helsing AI last year. The startup just partnered with a European arms manufacturerDaniel Ek-backed company strikes strategic partnership with Germany-based automotive and arms manufacturer, Rheinmetall Analysis News Utopia is raising €300 million in a Series C round that would value its company at €2.5bn. But what’s it building?A deep dive into one of the most intriguing companies operating around and within the modern music business News Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello joins PPL for international neighbouring rightsPPL adds to roster that already includes Anderson .Paak, Rita Ora and ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus News Spotify’s online studio Soundtrap launches live collaboration, auto-save toolsSoundtrap will showcase the new tools in a Spotify for Artists Masterclass video to be released Wednesday News Spotify to roll out separate ‘Shuffle’ and ‘Play’ buttons for paying usersFeature is expected to be available in the coming weeks through updates on iOS and Android mobile devices News Once again, Spotify avoids Netflix’s woes: Music streamer added 6m net subscribers in Q2SPOT is now projecting that its total global user base will hit 450 million people by the close of September News Epidemic Sound hits Meta with $142m lawsuit for ‘rampant infringement’ of its music on Facebook and InstagramSwedish music company claims that Meta has “ignored" its "repeated notices of infringement and requests for access to the tools that would help stop the infringement”. Analysis News Netflix lost 970,000 subscribers in Q2. How will Spotify fare?ARM, Netflix's equivalent of ARPU, was up 7% at constant currency YoY1 2 … 49 Next
News Daniel Ek poured €100m into Helsing AI last year. The startup just partnered with a European arms manufacturerDaniel Ek-backed company strikes strategic partnership with Germany-based automotive and arms manufacturer, Rheinmetall
Analysis News Utopia is raising €300 million in a Series C round that would value its company at €2.5bn. But what’s it building?A deep dive into one of the most intriguing companies operating around and within the modern music business
News Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello joins PPL for international neighbouring rightsPPL adds to roster that already includes Anderson .Paak, Rita Ora and ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus
News Spotify’s online studio Soundtrap launches live collaboration, auto-save toolsSoundtrap will showcase the new tools in a Spotify for Artists Masterclass video to be released Wednesday
News Spotify to roll out separate ‘Shuffle’ and ‘Play’ buttons for paying usersFeature is expected to be available in the coming weeks through updates on iOS and Android mobile devices
News Once again, Spotify avoids Netflix’s woes: Music streamer added 6m net subscribers in Q2SPOT is now projecting that its total global user base will hit 450 million people by the close of September
News Epidemic Sound hits Meta with $142m lawsuit for ‘rampant infringement’ of its music on Facebook and InstagramSwedish music company claims that Meta has “ignored" its "repeated notices of infringement and requests for access to the tools that would help stop the infringement”.
Analysis News Netflix lost 970,000 subscribers in Q2. How will Spotify fare?ARM, Netflix's equivalent of ARPU, was up 7% at constant currency YoY