Music Business News: Sweden

Max Martin generated $51m for his Swedish company in 2016

Net profit of $18m for hitmaker's corporate entity secured last year, up 22%

Universal to release new album by ABBA icon Benny Andersson next month

Sir Lucian Grainge says LP will "reinforce Benny’s legacy as one of the finest contemporary composers of our time"

Goldman Sachs fund sells $75m Spotify shares ahead of direct listing

Demand increasing as anticipation grows ahead of Spotify's floatation attempt

Spotify is set to end 2017 with 70m subscribers and $5bn in revenue. But how much money will it lose?

MBW's projections suggest Daniel Ek's company could hit 100m subs by the end of 2018

Spotify storms past 60m subscribers, now adding more than 2m a month

Daniel Ek's company races ahead of Apple Music by adding 10m subs since March

Forget about fake artists – it’s time to talk about fake streams.

We just bought 10,000 Spotify plays on the internet. It was easy.

Here’s Spotify’s biggest problem – in a Netflix-shaped nutshell

Spotify's average subscriber used to spend more than Netflix's. Things have changed.

Why Spotify’s fake artists problem is an Epidemic. Literally.

The tall tale of three Swedish companies, with their own economic interests