Analysis News Major record companies are losing market share on Spotify. But Spotify is gaining market share in Warner’s own revenues. Spotify, Apple, and YouTube contributed 42% of Warner Music Group's annual revenues in FY2021 between them
News Bad Bunny is the most-streamed artist globally on Spotify in 2021… and he didn’t even release a new album Olivia Rodrigo’s drivers license was the most-streamed song of 2021 globally on Spotify with over 1.1 billion streams
News Spotify expands into six new countries, including Venezuela and Iraq Spotify is now available in 184 markets
News Spotify launches real-time lyrics for all Free and Premium users globally Feature has been launched in partnership with Lyrics provider Musixmatch
News Spotify acquires Findaway to ‘revolutionize the audiobook space’ Findaway will continue to be led by Founder & CEO Mitch Kroll
News Spotify offloads two thirds of its stake in DistroKid for $167m Spotify made a minority investment in DistroKid back in 2018
News Spotify subscriptions reached 172m in Q3, up by 7m on the previous quarter Spotify has published its financial results for Q3 2021
News Here’s exactly what Spotify, Apple and other streaming services want to pay songwriters from 2023 onwards. MBW rifles through the filings of Big Tech to see what the likes of Google and Spotify are proposing
News Adele’s Easy on Me breaks Spotify record for most global streams in a week The British-born singer’s third UK Number 1 gained 217,300 chart sales in its first week
News Sulinna Ong promoted to Global Head of Editorial at Spotify Ong will relocate to Los Angeles from London for new role
News Spotify to let artists turn their profiles into ‘a virtual merch table’ with new Shopify partnership Artists can now use Shopify to manage and sell merch to fans via their artist profile
News Adele’s Easy On Me shatters BTS’s Spotify record for day-one global plays MBW crunches the numbers to estimate just how much bigger Adele's new record was than BTS's record-setting Butter
News Most people agree that Spotify should pay songwriters more. But where’s this money going to come from? David Israelite, CEO and President of the National Music Publishers Association, on why he's fuming over Big Tech's latest move
Analysis News From Spotify vs. songwriters to Adele vs. our emotions: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
News Spotify and other streaming services propose ‘lowest royalty rates in history’ for songwriters Music streaming services have all filed documents with the US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) this week