News Spotify and Amazon each considering takeover bids for UK podcast firm Audioboom (report) Audioboom's shows are downloaded more than 116m times each month
Analysis News Spotify’s valuation is half the size it was a year ago. Could a Big Tech titan make a shock acquisition bid? It couldn't really happen... could it?
Analysis Blog Artists should take a principled stance against Spotify for songwriters The following MBW Op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association
News Ex-Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy named new Peloton CEO, as firm cuts 2,800 jobs in ‘restructuring program’ Former Spotify CFO steps in as Peloton co-founder steps down
News Spotify says it can’t pay songwriters better royalty rates. It’s also spending $320 million on a Barcelona sponsorship deal. Agreement with Spanish soccer giants expected to be announced this week
News Warner Chappell: Spotify, Google and Amazon are paying songwriters an ‘appallingly low’ rate in the US Warner Chappell's co-chairs slam streaming pay rate for songwriters
Analysis News From Warner and Universal scrapping unrecouped balances to Spotify’s 180m subs: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
News Spotify rival Anghami gets approval to list on NASDAQ Anghami has more than 75 million registered users
Analysis News Spotify added 3m new creators to its platform last year… and 4 other things we learned from the firm’s Q4 earnings call. The Spotify founder gave some revelatory comments on Spotify's earnings call – especially around the creator economy
News Spotify subscriptions grew to 180m in 2021, Monthly Active Users topped 406m Spotify published its financial results for Q4 2021 today (February 2)
News David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash all request their labels remove their recordings from Spotify David Crosby, alongside Graham Nash and Stephen Stills, have issued a statement to media confirming that they have "requested that their labels remove their collective recordings from Spotify"
News Now India.Arie, Graham Nash pull their music from Spotify After Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, more stars pull their music from the platform
Analysis News The fallout from Neil Young’s Spotify protest will go far beyond Joe Rogan Tim Ingham discusses consequences of Young's music removal on MBW's Talking Trends podcast
News Daniel Ek responds to Neil Young’s Joe Rogan protest – but Spotify won’t delete controversial podcast episode Open letter from Daniel Ek commits to launching new content advisories
Analysis News Like Neil Young, David Crosby wants to remove his music catalog from Spotify. Trouble is, he’s lost control of it. Why David Crosby's story over the past two years tells us much about streaming, the current catalog frenzy, and acting on principle