News Apple Music takes on Spotify’s influential RapCaviar brand with Rap Life playlist and weekly show Playlist was formerly known as The A-List: Hip-Hop
News Spotify and Apple go big on independent artist Aaron Smith… and get major record labels talking Scottish songwriter lands enviable support from streamers
Analysis Spotify is investing $500m in podcasts. But it’s U-turned on content investments before. Anyone remember Spotify apps? Or 'Trading Playlists'?
News Spotify partners with Disney to launch Disney Hub featuring movie soundtracks and playlists Hub is available in the US, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
News Close to a third of Spotify’s 217m users are playing Ed Sheeran following release of his new album Over 69 million people have played the star's music in the past 28 days
Analysis News Apple is investing in original podcasts – and Spotify investors aren’t happy about it Daniel Ek's company has earmarked between $400m and $500m to spend on acquiring podcast content and tools this year
Analysis News Ed Sheeran’s No.6 Collaborations album isn’t a record-breaker – but it just cleared 100m Spotify streams in three days Album generated $500,000 for Sheeran and Atlantic Records on Spotify in its first three days of availability
News Has Spotify given up on its emerging artist program, RISE? As Apple commits to Up Next, we haven't seen a hint of an update to Spotify's rival in nine long months
Analysis Spotify needs to scale its ad business. Can podcasts fix the problem, and if so, how? How does Spotify's ad revenue strategy line up with its podcast initiatives?
News Are you ready for Spotify: The Game Show? Spotify is hiring a reality Formats Lead to develop original game show, dating/romance, self-improvement and competition audio content
News Spotify Lite Android app rolled out in 36 markets across Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa App uses less storage, data, and battery power
News Could Spotify be about to launch in Russia for $2.35 per month? Unverified screenshot indicates that platform is coming soon, and cheaper than Apple Music
News Vodafone-owned Vodacom’s My Muze app takes on Spotify in South Africa with 1m downloads Vodafone subsidiary Vodacom boasts over 40m customers
News Because Music boss Emmanuel De Buretel calls for Spotify and rivals to adopt ‘user-centric’ licensing 'The so-called 'user centric' model, based on a user-based income distribution, would be more virtuous.'
News Spotify hires former VICE Media exec Cameron Farrelly as Global Creative Director "I will be developing campaigns, activation and original IP that the world will obsess about"