News Safiya Lambie-Knight named Head of Music for the UK & Ireland at Spotify Exec has been promoted to the role from her previous position as Lead, Artist & Label Partnerships, UK & IE
Analysis News No Netflix problems here: Spotify added 2m net subscribers in Q1 – despite cutting off 1.5 million subs in Russia Spotiify beats guidance on various key metric for its business – when you factor in Russia – including users and subscribers
Analysis Spotify faces its most crucial earnings call yet. Here are the 3 difficult questions MBW would be asking. After Netflix's shocker of a Q1, all eyes are on Spotify's equivalent fiscal announcement. Here's what MBW would ask Daniel Ek.
Analysis Nearly 80% of artists on Spotify have fewer than 50 monthly listeners There is an ocean of music on Spotify that is a very long way from being popular
News Spotify’s Premium Content Strategy Director Darya Pourshasb exits, joins Justin Blau’s NFT platform Royal Pourshasb joins Royal as Head of Global Artist & Label Partnerships
News Spotify launches specialist K-Pop exec recruitment drive Candidate will join'a newly created team focused on breaking through K-Pop and K-culture driving communities'
News Spotify integrates live audio streaming into main app, rebrands Greenroom as Spotify Live Spotify Live will bring Spotify's live capabilities directly on to the Spotify app
News Spotify’s Eminem publisher dispute continues, as US judge orders Daniel Ek deposition Deposition can be made by remote means for a maximum of three hours
Analysis News An MBW reader just blew open the Spotify fake artists story. Here’s what they have to say. This is an email you're gonna want to read
Analysis News Remember Spotify’s fake artists? They’re still going strong – and still attracting scandal. Have you heard of Firefly or Chillmi? Two of the biggest indie labels going, with so many artists on their books!
Analysis News From Spotify’s $7bn payout in 2021, to the global record industry’s $25.9bn revenues: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
Analysis News Spotify just dropped a stat that changes everything about how you should judge the streaming economy Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends podcast delves into a major new revelation from Spotify
Analysis News 52,600 artists generated over $10k on Spotify last year – and 15,140 of them uploaded their own music Revelatory new stats published on Spotify's updated Loud & Clear website today
News Spotify joins recruitment drive for Web3 experts Successful applicant for new advertised role must be able 'to design and build interactive digital prototypes to bring concepts to life'.
Analysis News Spotify is paying $310m to Barcelona for a sponsorship. According to our calculations, that’s more than it’s ever paid an artist in royalties. Spotify announced its big deal yesterday. It's worth 89.08 billion streams.