News Spotify pulls hundreds of K-Pop songs globally due to expired licensing deal with Kakao M Expired deal with distributor and record label KakaoM results in tracks being pulled from streaming service
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Spotify, Big Hit, Chance The Rapper, Splice, TuneCore The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Spotify just secured $1.3bn in debt. What could it spend it on? Notes would fully mature on (as in, be repayable by) March 15, 2026
Analysis Over 60,000 tracks are now uploaded to Spotify every day. That’s nearly one per second. The numbers behind some major announcements from Spotify unveiled this week
News Spotify to expand into over 80 new markets across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America New markets include Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Pakistan
News Spotify HiFi subscription to launch in select markets later this year Spotify HiFi will deliver music in CD-quality, lossless audio
News Spotify bins Secret Genius, launches Noteable hub for songwriters, producers and publishers Noteable to act as 'one central space for the community,' says SPOT
News Spotify, Apple and others pay $424.38m in historical Unmatched Royalties to Mechanical Licensing Collective 'This is a massive win for music creators and the streaming services themselves,' says NMPA President & CEO David Israelite
News Former senior White House official Mona Sutphen to join Spotify Board of Directors Sutphen served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2011
News Spotify employees can now ‘Work From Anywhere’ full-time (so long as their manager agrees) Streaming company to offer more flexible working options for employees
News Daniel Ek: 3 things we learned from Spotify’s boss on the company’s Q4 earnings call Spotify published its financial results Q4 2020 on Wednesday (February 3)
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: AWAL, Universal x Triller, Spotify, Sony, Neil Jacobson The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
Analysis News Spotify lost the equivalent of $2.2m every day in 2020… as it spent over $1bn on sales and marketing in the year MBW shines the spotlight on SPOT's 2020 fiscal results – on the black ink... and the red ink
News Spotify subscriptions grew to 155m in 2020, Monthly Active Users topped 345m Spotify published its financial results today
News After leaving Spotify last year, Joe Budden takes podcast to Patreon, joins firm as Head of Creator Equity First exclusive episode of The Joe Budden Podcast to launch on February 8