Music Business News: Sweden

Epidemic Sound bolsters management team with appointment of former Airbnb and Google execs

Rikard Herlitz appointed Chief Technology Officer and Julian Persaud named Chief Commercial Officer

It’s happened: 100,000 tracks are now being uploaded to streaming services like Spotify each day

Figure confirmed by both Universal and Warner bosses – but who, exactly, is it benefitting?

‘Generally, the more people involved in writing a song, the less personal it gets.’

Per Gessle on how he wrote Roxette's biggest hits but always felt like an outsider

Song data startup Session, co-founded by Max Martin, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, Niclas Molinder, strikes partnership with SoundCloud

Session Studio is embedded within DAWs to capture song information and data at the point of creation

After 10 long years, the handcuffs are coming off Universal Music Group in Europe.

In 2012, the European Commission banned UMG from making a wide range of deals in Europe. That ban just expired.

Get ready for Netflix series about Spotify, a ‘fictionalized account’ of the streaming platform’s rise

Series to be released on Netflix on October 13

Facebook parent Meta asks court to dismiss Epidemic Sound’s $142m lawsuit

Epidemic Sound sued Meta in July for alleged infringement

‘A one size fits all approach in music is holding back creativity.’

Corite COO Emelie Olsson discusses the future of the platform, the evolution of audience-power in music, Web3 and much more besides