News Spotify fined $5.4m by Swedish privacy regulator The case stems from a complaint filed in January 2019
News After acquiring Soundtrap in 2017, Spotify sells the music making platform back to its founders The streaming giant acquired Stockholm-based platform in November 2017
Interviews This independent artist has over a billion streams on Spotify. 10 years ago, a record label told him his music was ‘unreleasable’. Bruno Major joins the Music Business Worldwide Podcast
News Spotify cuts 200 jobs as it restructures its podcast division Layoffs represent about 2% of the company’s total workforce
News Former Spotify exec David Ecker joins Exceleration Music as Label Development Manager Rachel Cunningham also appointed to lead Fan Engagement and Commerce at Exceleration
Analysis Who owns Spotify today? MBW digs through SEC filings to discover who ultimately controls music subscription streaming's dominant player
News Spotify rival Anghami doubles down on artificial intelligence with AI-powered podcast and newsroom Company says its AI-Powered Personalized Podcast is the first of its kind in the world
News Boomy’s AI-generated tracks start landing back on Spotify amid growing battle against artificial streaming Boomy says it’s back in business on the prominent music streaming platform
News From Ed Sheeran’s court victory to Spotify deleting Boomy uploads… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
Analysis The Boomy/Spotify streaming fraud debacle proves ‘pro-rata’ must go – urgently. Is that the kind of music business you signed up for? Because it's the one you've got.
News AI music app Boomy has created 14.4m tracks to date. Spotify just deleted a bunch of its uploads after detecting ‘stream manipulation’. Today's news comes a week after Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of Spotify, announced to investors that his company was working with major record companies to quell the threat posed by AI music
Analysis News Spotify confirms it’s working with labels to quell copyright threat from AI music Spotify is taking concerns about the impact of AI-generated music on entertainment rightsholders seriously, says Daniel Ek
News Spotify added 5m Premium subscribers in Q1, taking its total global paying subs audience to 210m Spotify's Monthly Active Users reached 515m at the end of Q1 2023
Analysis Spotify needs to woo the boomers if it wants to keep growing in the US market A recent Edison Research report broke down why there may be a big opportunity for Daniel Ek's company amongst the 55-plus crowd in the States
News Daniel Ek takes Spotify’s battle with Apple to Washington Ek is in Washington, DC, this week, to lobby lawmakers to pass a law that would prevent Apple from engaging in 'anti-steering' behavior.