News Spotify to acquire AI voice platform Sonantic Firm built the AI voice model for actor Val Kilmer used in Top Gun: Maverick
Analysis News From Spotify’s 1bn user target to TuneCore’s pricing overhaul: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
Analysis News Music’s biggest companies are waiting for a Spotify price rise. For now, Spotify isn’t budging. Daniel Ek is wondering if Netflix "didn't get ahead of itself" with its streaming price rises...
Analysis News Spotify says it can hit 1bn users globally by 2030. But its MAU growth is slowing in Latin America. MBW analysis shows that Spotify's LatAm MAU growth was smaller in 2021 than it was in 2020
News Spotify launches music career advice platform it says is ‘like an artist manager in your pocket’ New interactive career advice portal is called 'In Focus'
News TIYA, a social audio platform and Clubhouse rival with 20m downloads, integrates Spotify into its app 'Our users now have another tool to socialize and share their lifestyles and interests,' said James Lin, CEO of TIYA
Analysis Tencent Music and NetEase Cloud Music both added more paying music users than Spotify in Q1 NetEase Cloud Music added 7.8 million paying users in Q1; Tencent Music added 4.0 million
Analysis News Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber currently have the most monthly listeners of all artists on Spotify With just over 84 million monthly listeners, Ed Sheeran remains comfortably in the lead, despite having not released a new studio album since October 2021
Analysis Streaming’s surprise growth in Sweden suggests that, for Spotify, the time for price rises is now MBW turns a magnifying glass to Sweden and Brazil, and discovers some startling statistics about Daniel Ek's successes
News YouTube’s Q1 ad revenue was more than double what Spotify made across its entire business in Q1 YouTube's advertising revenues reached $6.87 billion in Q1 2022
Analysis News Last week, Daniel Ek bought $50m in Spotify stock. Today, Spotify’s share price sunk to an all-time low. Ek tweeted on Friday that he believed Spotify's "best days are ahead"
News Bad Bunny is king of Spotify, setting new all-time record for streams in a single day In 2021, Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist in the world on Spotify for the second year in a row
News Spotify just entered the metaverse, with official launch on Roblox Company becomes first music-streaming brand to have a presence on Roblox
Analysis News From The Weeknd’s Universal deal to Spotify’s Q1 results: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
Analysis News Spotify’s share price crash is a shocker for Daniel Ek. It won’t have best pleased music’s biggest companies. MBW crunches the numbers on Universal and Sony's ownership stakes in Daniel Ek's green machine