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News Spotify unveils standalone audiobooks tier for free users, priced at $9.99/month Available only in the US for the time being, the new subscription tier is Spotify's latest attempt at converting free users to subscribers
News Spotify launches music advisory agency for brands, led by former FIFA Global Marketing Director Jean-François Pathy 'Spotify AUX will broaden the opportunities available to artists,' said Pathy
News Spotify integrates Bandsintown listings, as its Songkick partnership comes to an end after 13 years The partnership comes at a crucial time for the live music industry, which is facing increased competition and rising costs
Analysis Only 19% of artists on Spotify had over 1,000 monthly listeners in 2023 As MBW has previously pointed out, there will be a minimum number of unique listeners required for a track to become eligible for royalty payouts on Spotify this year
Analysis News The major record companies (and Merlin) saw their Spotify market share fall again in 2023. Yet even before ‘artist-centric’ changes, this decline started slowing. Spotify's annual report reveals an interesting trend around the joint market share of major record companies and Merlin on the platform
Analysis News From Warner’s best-ever quarter to Spotify’s $9bn payout to the music industry… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
Analysis Spotify paid out $9 billion to music rightsholders in 2023 – equivalent to 63% of its annual revenues That's around 24 times what TikTok paid music rightsholders last year (which in itself isn't a fair comparison)
News Daniel Ek cashes out another $57.5m in Spotify stock, just three months after he banked $64m, and 6 months after he offloaded $100m in shares Ek sold his shares at a time when Spotify's stock price is at its highest level since late 2021
Analysis News Spotify’s spat with Apple, its new deal with Joe Rogan and further cost-cutting: 3 things we learned on the company’s latest earnings call Spotify would be experimenting with a variety of payment models, were it not for the Apple Store’s so-called “app tax,” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said.
Analysis News Spotify added 10m subscribers in Q4 2023, taking its total global paying subs audience to 236m Spotify's total number of Monthly Active Users grew 23% YoY to 602 million at the end of Q4 2023
Analysis With ‘superfans’ in their eyes, could the major record companies now rally behind Spotify in its ‘app tax’ battle with Apple? Why a careful balancing act is required by the majors as their own priorities become entangled in Spotify and Apple's fight
Analysis News From Spotify’s ‘superfan clubs’ to Apple Music’s spatial audio royalty boost… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News Did Spotify just confirm that ‘superfan clubs’ are coming to its platform? Spotify appears to have revealed this information in a blog post
News The MLC issues notices of intent to audit Spotify and other DSPs to verify the accuracy of their royalty payments The MLC has sent audit notices to nearly 50 DSPs, including Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music and others