Analysis News From Spotify’s $7bn payout in 2021, to the global record industry’s $25.9bn revenues: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
Analysis News Spotify just dropped a stat that changes everything about how you should judge the streaming economy Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends podcast delves into a major new revelation from Spotify
Analysis News 52,600 artists generated over $10k on Spotify last year – and 15,140 of them uploaded their own music Revelatory new stats published on Spotify's updated Loud & Clear website today
News Spotify joins recruitment drive for Web3 experts Successful applicant for new advertised role must be able 'to design and build interactive digital prototypes to bring concepts to life'.
Analysis News Spotify is paying $310m to Barcelona for a sponsorship. According to our calculations, that’s more than it’s ever paid an artist in royalties. Spotify announced its big deal yesterday. It's worth 89.08 billion streams.
Analysis News Spotify is no longer earning any money from Russia, as it de-monetizes ads and subscriptions in market (update) Spotify Chief Financial Officer Paul Vogel reveals news on the platform's position in Russia
Analysis News Spotify just patented its own A&R technology to predict breaking artists. Should labels be concerned? Daniel Ek's company suggests it could ink "recording deals" with on-the-rise artists... and spot them sooner than record companies
News Ukraine: Major music companies donate to humanitarian orgs, as Spotify shuts Russia office All three majors have made donations to organizations focusing on the people of Ukraine
News Spotify’s Director, Global Head of International Licensing exits, joins YouTube Music as Managing Director, APAC Veteran music executive Paul Smith joins YouTube Music
News Spotify’s $90 Car Thing device now on sale publicly in the US Car Thing is only available for Spotify Premium users
News Dan Rutman joins Spotify as Head of Music Creator Partnerships Rutman was most recently Head of Business Development at TuneCore
News Spotify acquires two podcast firms, Podsights and Chartable Podsights is a podcast advertising measurement service, and Chartable is a podcast analytics platform
News Spotify and Amazon each considering takeover bids for UK podcast firm Audioboom (report) Audioboom's shows are downloaded more than 116m times each month
Analysis News Spotify’s valuation is half the size it was a year ago. Could a Big Tech titan make a shock acquisition bid? It couldn't really happen... could it?
Analysis Blog Artists should take a principled stance against Spotify for songwriters The following MBW Op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association