News Spotify says it paid out $213M to Australian music rightsholders in 2025, up 7% YoY Australian listeners streamed domestic artists 223 million more times in 2025 than the year prior.
News Spotify says it has ‘helped artists generate’ $1bn+ in ticket sales to date. Now it’s teaming up with SeatGeek to drive even more SeatGeek becomes the latest ticketing platform to join Spotify's growing live events ecosystem.
News From UMG’s approved Downtown deal to Spotify’s AI ambitions… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up The biggest headlines from the past few days...
News The Empire Strikes Back: The majors and Merlin gained (a bit) of market share on Spotify last year. Spotify's new annual report updates a crucial yearly stat – with a surprise new number
Analysis News Songs are reaching 1bn Spotify streams 14x faster than a decade ago, and other stats from Chartmetric’s 2025 Year in Music report The report highlights several notable shifts shaping the music economy.
News Spotify eyes AI ‘derivatives’ as new revenue stream for artists – says its tech to let fans make remixes and covers is ready Spotify says it wants to enable listeners to interact with their favorite artists' music through AI
Analysis News Spotify hits 290m paid subscribers in Q4, as streaming giant posts $2.5bn annual operating profit for 2025 Spotify published its Q4 and FY 2025 results today (February 10).
News Taylor Swift to premiere ‘Opalite’ music video on Spotify and Apple Music – with YouTube release delayed by two days The video will not be available on YouTube until Super Bowl Sunday (February 8)
News Suno hires former Spotify exec Sam Berger as Senior Director of Artist Partnerships Berger joins a team that includes industry professionals who previously worked at Snap, 88rising, Twitch, Splice, Atlantic Records, Motown Records, Capitol Records and Sony Music.
News Spotify to open Istanbul office, names Akshat Harbola as Managing Director for MENA and Türkiye Harbola says that Türkiye as a “priority market” for the streaming giant.
News Spotify says it paid out over $11bn to the music industry in 2025 The streaming giant has hailed the figure as "the largest annual payment to music from any retailer in history".
News Record labels, Spotify sue pirate group Anna’s Archive over scraping and ‘brazen theft’ of millions of tracks Pirate group accused of 'brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world's commercial sound recordings.'
News AI-created track blocked from Sweden’s Official Charts after racking up millions of streams on Spotify The AI artist behind the track has gained over 935,800 monthly listeners on Spotify.
News Spotify hikes price for Premium subscribers in the US, other markets Monthly subscription cost for Premium Individual will rise from $11.99 to $12.99 in the US
News MLC vs. Spotify bundle battle intensifies as streamer opposes immediate appeal Mechanical Licensing Collective is seeking an immediate appeal of a court ruling in its legal battle with Spotify over audiobook bundling