News YouTube Music rolls out Spotify-like real-time lyrics on mobile The update was spotted by multiple Reddit users, who report that the lyrics are being powered by Musixmatch
News Spotify shuts down Spotify Live after two years of ‘experimentation’ Daniel Ek's firm capitalized on the Clubhouse boom. Then the Clubhouse boom ended.
Analysis As major label market share falls on Spotify, can we expect even more indie investment from the ‘Big Three’? As industry dynamics shift, are we going to see artist and label services divisions grow in importance for the majors?
News Kakao launched a new virtual K-Pop group called MAVE, and the first single has already generated 20m streams on Spotify Virtual group also 172,000 subscribers on YouTube
Analysis 38 million tracks on music streaming services were played ZERO times in 2022. (Or: why Spotify should take a leaf out of Elon Musk’s book.) Should Spotify, in a quest to improve its margin, start playing hardball with its least successful artists?
Analysis News Fewer DIY artists generated over $10k on Spotify in 2022 than they did in 2021 (according to Spotify’s own figures – update). MBW founder Tim Ingham takes a hard look at Spotify's latest figures regarding independent artists and what they're paid on the platform
News Spotify removes catalog of Zee Music, one of India’s largest domestic labels, due to licensing dispute Zee has 93.6 million YouTube subscribers
Analysis News Why is Spotify copying TikTok? To cling on to power. MBW founder, Tim Ingham delves behind a major recent entertainment industry headline to explain what's really going on
Analysis News Spotify’s mission statement is preposterous. Its latest announcements prove it. Drilling behind the numbers released by Spotify last week, to discover the hard truth
News Spotify doubles down on short-form video content with new ‘Clips’ feature Spotify Clips lets artists add videos of up to 30 seconds long to their artist profiles
News Spotify approaches $40bn in all-time payouts to the music industry Spotify says that 'nearly 70%' of every dollar it generates from music 'is paid back as royalties to rightsholders'.
News Spotify rival Anghami sued by PopArabia, Reservoir over allegedly streaming unlicensed songs Lawsuit was filed in December
News Spotify dips a toe in NFT space, via token-gated playlists starting with Universal’s virtual band Kingship KINGSHIP revealed via Twitter that it's teaming up with Spotify on a token-enabled playlist
News Spotify just launched a personalized ‘DJ’ powered by Generative and Voice AI SPOT uses 'dynamic AI voice platform' from its acquisition of London-based Voice startup Sonantic
News Spotify now has an activist shareholder with a history of pushing for price rises ValueAct took a position in the New York Times last year