News Former Spotify Japan executive Akira Nomoto named General Manager, Merlin Japan Nomoto takes over from Haji Taniguchi
News Spotify launches cloud-based podcast studio, Soundtrap for Storytellers The service is available today and is priced at $14.99/month
Analysis News The average salary of a Spotify employee hit $132,301 last year – more than double what it was in 2011 How the salaries at streaming music's market leader have changed over the past decade
News Watch out, record labels: Spotify is inserting podcasts into personalized playlists Streaming company is testing a playlist called 'Your Daily Drive' reports The Verge
News Nearly 40,000 tracks are now being added to Spotify every single day That's the equivalent of 280,000 songs a week, or around 1.2 million tracks per calendar month.
News Spotify now has 100m paying subscribers, up 32% year-on-year Average Spotify subscriber across the world (ARPU) is paying €4.71, roughly flat year-on-year
News Khalid just became the biggest artist in the world on Spotify, with over 50m monthly listeners RCA-signed act now has 50,043,332 monthly listeners on the streaming platform
News Spotify loses catalog of India’s oldest label after copyright infringement lawsuit You can read lawsuit in full here
News Why Amazon and Google’s free music tiers could spell trouble for Spotify Spotify's audio advertising offering could be under threat from the big boys
News Amazon’s free Spotify rival is ‘imminent’, licensed by major labels "The music industry seems to be in a good place with Amazon and Apple right now – but less so with Spotify."
News Amazon to launch ad-supported music service to rival Spotify – report Service could launch this week
News Jody Gerson: UMPG ‘stands with songwriters’ fighting Spotify CRB appeal "By appealing the ruling, these companies fail to acknowledge that songwriters need to be paid fairly."
News Hit songwriters tell Spotify’s Daniel Ek they’re ‘hurt and disappointed’ by CRB rate appeal 'You have used us and tried to divide us but we stand together.'
News Apple Music has more paying US subscribers than Spotify – report Apple Music had 28m subscribers in the US as of February, says WSJ