Music Business News: Sweden

Mattias Caliste most recently ran Virgin Music Sweden

Amuse employs a data-driven approach to music, and it catalog now includes some 8,000 recordings from 300 artists

SMP's Scandinavian division has been enjoying success lately with co-writing credits on Charli XCX and Zara Larsson tracks.

Co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon continue to dominate as shareholders of Spotify.

Bluejay Technologies says it shared info with Spotify on its system for collaborative streaming playlists before Spotify launched something similar

It's a complicated relationship – in which both parties need each other.

Spotify has been gradually reducing its office space

Spotify started limiting access to lyrics for ad-supported users last fall, but appears to have backed off from that idea