News Daniel Ek rubbishes iHeart boss Pittman’s claim that ‘73% of Spotify’s listening comes from just 3% of their audience’ iHeart now reaches 275 million Americans monthly – more than the top two closest broadcast radio competitors combined
News Spotify to raise family subscription price by 13% in Scandinavia – report Spotify hiked prices by 10% in Norway last summer – and they haven't come back down
News Amazon Music’s subscriber base isn’t really growing faster than Spotify’s Spotify is increasing its subs base by over 20m people year-on-year – Amazon is dragging significantly behind
News Apple in talks with Spotify to enable music playback control via Siri – report A report in the The Information cites "three people familiar with the discussions"
News Spotify for Podcasters comes out of beta Dashboard displays data such as average listening times, episode streams, and total listeners
Analysis Spotify is still adding more users across Europe and North America than in Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined SPOT is reaching less than 1.5% of its potential addressable market outside of Europe and the Americas
News Apple Music For Artists launches, rivalling Spotify’s analytics tools Unsurprisingly, Apple is putting Shazam data front and center within its app
News Spotify has acquired three podcast companies this year. Total cost: $404m. Full extent of expenditure revealed within new SEC filing
News After Apple’s Verizon deal, free Spotify subscriptions offered to customers of rival AT&T AT&T Unlimited & More Premium customers can select a Spotify Premium subscription from one of seven premium entertainment options for free
News Who are the two ‘major labels’ that have signed new deals with Spotify? Clue: not Universal or Warner. Sony and Merlin both have active deals in place with Daniel Ek's company, MBW understands
News Spotify’s subscriber base grows to 108m, as total Monthly Active User count hits 232m Latest figures show growth both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year
News Official: Mike Biggane leaves Spotify to join Universal Music Group as EVP, Music Strategies and Tactics Creator of Spotify's New Music Fridays moves label-side in Santa Monica
News Spotify appoints Sulinna Ong as Head of Music in the UK and Ireland "Sulinna joined us three months ago and in that time has shown great leadership, bringing 16 years’ experience pioneering global marketing strategies in the music industry, leading editorial teams as well as directly managing major artists.”
News Beggars Group paid artists 44% of its Spotify share money; indie’s own revenues hit $100m in 2018 "After allowing for recoupment on advances, 44% [of the total Spotify proceeds were] paid out in cash."
News Former Spotify Global Head of Songwriter Relations Tiffany Kumar enters JV with Pulse Music Group Kumar's music agency Beat House has signed a JV and global co-publishing deal with Pulse Music Group