Analysis News Three quarters of all royalties generated by UK artists on Spotify in 2023 came from listeners outside of the UK Spotify has recently broken out streaming royalty data for a bunch of individual markets in Europe
Analysis News From Spotify’s battle with music publishers to the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
Analysis News Spotify’s battle with songwriters and music publishers is getting complicated. Here’s a recap. MBW Explains what's happened, who has said what so far, and what could happen next...
Analysis News Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ is the most streamed album by any female artist ever on Spotify (yes, including Taylor Swift) Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album continues to smash records three years after its release
News Amid Spotify ‘bundling’ dispute in the US, NMPA calls on Congress to let music publishers opt out of compulsory license and negotiate with streamers ‘in a free market’ NMPA proposes legislative solution in letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees
Analysis News Could Spotify lose the crucial ‘bundling’ lawsuit filed by the MLC? It all comes down to these legal arguments… Spotify could easily lose the lawsuit failed against it... but still win in the long run
News Sony Music Publishing mulls ‘all options’ against Spotify over bundling subscriptions "Spotify is taking the position that all US subscribers are part of a bundle without choosing the bundle option"
Analysis News From the NMPA vs. Spotify to Sony’s opt-out from gen AI… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
Analysis News Streams of Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us and Euphoria are still soaring on Spotify… and the tracks have been blowing up on other platforms too. Not Like Us reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week
News Spotify sued by the MLC for cutting pay rate to songwriters via premium bundles Lawsuit stems from Spotify's decision at the beginning of March to reclassify its Premium tiers a bundles
News Spotify fires back at music publishers’ legal threat over alleged lyrics infringement, calling it ‘false and misleading’ NMPA letter to Spotify included various allegations, one of which was that the music streaming service is hosting unlicensed lyrics on its platform
News Music publishers threaten Spotify with legal action over lyrics, podcasts, music videos NMPA letter obtained by MBW accuses Spotify of not obtaining licenses for the use of lyrics on its platform
Analysis Spotify is playing a dangerous game… This article originally appeared within the latest MBW+ Monthly Review email, issued exclusively to MBW+ subscribers.
News Streams of Música Mexicana soared by 440% in five years on Spotify, platform says The trend is most pronounced in Latin America, the music streaming service says in a new report
News Spotify quietly locks lyrics behind paywall in bid to convert free users to paying subs (Report) The move appears to be part of an effort to nudge more ad-supported users to switch to a paid subscription