Music Business News: Sweden

Spotify’s competitors turn up the heat as Amazon readies its rival

Pandora, Amazon, Vevo and others keen to launch new features over the coming months

Spotify is making its own records… and putting them on playlists

'Chill' playlists being infiltrated by Spotify-owned recordings, MBW learns

Spotify on course to hit 50m subscribers within the next six months

Spotify is now adding around 450,000 subscribers every week

Spotify is out of contract with all three major labels – and wants to pay them less

Spotify is currently paying 55% of revenue to labels. It wants to reduce it.

Universal nabs Warner’s Samuel Arvidsson as Commercial Director in Sweden

Former BMG, EMI and Sony exec switches majors in Stockholm

Spotify is asking brands to bid for ads based on your individual tastes

Programmatic advertising deal done with Rubicon and others

Spotify has surpassed 35m subscribers – and is growing faster than ever

Stat means that Spotify currently has more than double Apple Music's subs worldwide

Spotify tops 100m active users – but can it keep up its conversion rate?

End of year figures for 2015 showed a 31.5% conversion rate into premium