Music Business News: Sweden News Spotify launches ever-changing ‘Daylist’ playlist that adapts to users’ moodsPlaylist will initially launch in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland News From Concord’s $468.8m Round Hill deal to Universal and Deezer’s new artist-centric model… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days News Spotify CEO-backed VC firm Air Street Capital raises $121m to invest in AI startupsDaniel Ek has previously invested in the VC via his investment vehicle Prima Materia News Spotify tests restricting lyrics access to Premium subscribers (report)Music streaming giant Spotify tests making lyrics a premium-only feature News Apple acquires 50-year old classical music label BIS RecordsDeal follows the launch of Apple Music Classical earlier this year News Multiple criminal gang members confirm they’ve used Spotify for money laundering in bombshell new report in SwedenAn explosive new report from Svenska Dagbladet in Sweden focuses on the end purpose of streaming fraud on Spotify for organized criminals: laundering money. News Spotify could ban white noise podcasts to boost annual profit by up to $38M (report)Bloomberg reports that Daniel Ek and co may make bold move to free up internal resources and improve profitability News After raising $2.7m, music royalties marketplace MasterExchange sells out its first ‘initial music offering’Platform, launched in 2022 in Stockholm, is a marketplace to invest in song royalties1 2 … 57 Next
News Spotify launches ever-changing ‘Daylist’ playlist that adapts to users’ moodsPlaylist will initially launch in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland
News From Concord’s $468.8m Round Hill deal to Universal and Deezer’s new artist-centric model… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
News Spotify CEO-backed VC firm Air Street Capital raises $121m to invest in AI startupsDaniel Ek has previously invested in the VC via his investment vehicle Prima Materia
News Spotify tests restricting lyrics access to Premium subscribers (report)Music streaming giant Spotify tests making lyrics a premium-only feature
News Apple acquires 50-year old classical music label BIS RecordsDeal follows the launch of Apple Music Classical earlier this year
News Multiple criminal gang members confirm they’ve used Spotify for money laundering in bombshell new report in SwedenAn explosive new report from Svenska Dagbladet in Sweden focuses on the end purpose of streaming fraud on Spotify for organized criminals: laundering money.
News Spotify could ban white noise podcasts to boost annual profit by up to $38M (report)Bloomberg reports that Daniel Ek and co may make bold move to free up internal resources and improve profitability
News After raising $2.7m, music royalties marketplace MasterExchange sells out its first ‘initial music offering’Platform, launched in 2022 in Stockholm, is a marketplace to invest in song royalties