Music Business News: Sweden

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Taylor Swift claims title of Spotify’s most-streamed artist for second straight year, with more than 26.6bn streams in 2024

Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish have topped Spotify's most-streamed artists list for 2024

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Are Spotify’s changes to third-party developer access meant to combat AI scraping?

Third-party app developers have been cut off from numerous data points within Spotify's platform

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Key Spotify executives have cashed out more than $1 billion in stock this year… including $283 million for Daniel Ek.

Following a series of blockbuster earnings reports, Spotify's stock is trading near all-time highs

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Spotify gains profitability… but loses the argument.

MBW founder Tim Ingham on Spotify's new-found profit margin, its relationship with songwriters, and Netflix

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Bell Partners and Larrosa form strategic alliance, backed by $350m in investments, to acquire music catalogs and companies

Bell Partners was founded by veteran writer, producer and executive Hayden Bell

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TikTok strikes new long-term partnership with ICE

The new deal will give TikTok continued access to ICE's vast catalog of more than 54 million musical works from over 330,000 rightsholders

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Daniel Ek just cashed out $35.8 million in Spotify shares. But that’s nothing compared to his co-founder… who just cashed out $383.8 million.

Spotify’s share price is flying. Following the firm’s announcement of its Q3 2024 results on Tuesday (November 12), SPOT’s stock price jumped on the NYSE, closing at an all-time high of USD $477.50 yesterday (November 14). It settled back down to $458.32 at the close of trading today (November 15), but that was still enough … Continued

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Spotify launches ‘Partner Program’ with new monetization options for video creators

Spotify says expanded video offerings will be good for music rightsholders, as it will bring more listeners to the platform