News Spotify enters settlement negotiations with Pro Music Rights founder A joint motion to stay for a period of 60 days has been issued
Interviews Audius has raised nearly $10m for its Spotify rival. Can its blockchain-based model change the game for artist payments? Does Audius offer a viable and more ethical alternative to music streaming?
Analysis News Spotify, worth $67bn, has seen its share price TRIPLE in 10 months. Should Daniel Ek pay artists a ‘bonus’ to say thank you? Spotify is still loss-making, but its market cap is so massive... should it pay a 'phantom dividend' to popular artists in need?
Analysis This Spotify chart data reveals a whole lot about the UK music industry’s last 12 months EMI Records Streaming Manager, Alex Bingham, crunches the numbers that drove Spotify's chart last year
News Amazon Music to buy podcast company Wondery, taking fight to Spotify Deal was for over $300 million valuation, according to Wall Street Journal report
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Lucian Grainge, Tencent, Spotify, Beatport, TikTok The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Spotify to launch in South Korea in first half of 2021 South Korea will become Spotify’s 93rd active market
News You can now get a Spotify subscription for $0.34 a week in India Spotify launches Premium Mini in India
News Spotify says you can watch music videos and documentaries on its platform (you can’t). Are they on the way? "Watch music videos, documentaries, and exclusive video series, all from within the Spotify app."
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Primary Wave, Spotify, SoundCloud, Human Re-Sources, Hipgnosis The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Spotify just invented AI technology that will police songwriter plagiarism Spotify's in-house AI expert, François Pachet, is a co-founder of the new technology, now being reviewed for a European patent
News After calling Universal ‘music’s most innovative company’, now Spotify says UMG is ‘willing to lean in more aggressively’ than its rivals to SPOT’s marketing tools "Our hope and expectation will be that other labels, both the big ones [and] small ones will lean in more aggressively over time."
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Twitch, Round Hill, Primary Wave, Spotify, Shutterstock The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Spotify explores podcast-only $7.99-per-month subscription prospect in new survey Company also looking into $2.99-per-month and $4.99-per-month tiers
News Spotify to buy podcast ad platform Megaphone for $235m, bringing its total podcast acquisition spend to over $800m in the past 2 years Megaphone provides hosting and ad-insertion capabilities for podcast publishers