News Apple’s ‘app tax’, hated by Spotify, is under fire in US Supreme Court case Consumer lawsuit launched over Apple's App Store pricing model
News UTA hires Spotify’s Vanja Primorac to focus on Music Innovations Primorac was an Artist Marketing Representative at Spotify
News Spotify hasn’t been licensed by Universal, Sony or Warner for India (yet) The big three major labels are yet to sign on the dotted line
Analysis Why Spotify needs to up its game outside of Europe and the Americas (and is making big bets to do so) If Spotify's expanding into India, its investors should prepare themselves for a tough challenge ahead
News Mexico City has more Spotify listeners than London, New York or Paris Mexico City became Spotify’s first-ever Latin American market in 2013
News Universal will ignore artists’ unrecouped balances when it pays out Spotify share money… thanks to Taylor Swift 'They have generously agreed to this, at what they believe will be much better terms than paid out previously by other major labels.'
News Spotify launches global database for women working in music Spotify has teamed up with nonprofit SoundGirls to create the database
Analysis One reason why Spotify’s deals with the major labels are balanced on a knife-edge Sony and Universal still own around 6% of Spotify – and won't want to see the company's value crumble
News Spotify launches app for Apple Watch The app will be rolling out to Apple Watch users over the coming week
News Spotify share price falls to another all-time low, as market cap drops under $24bn That's down 33% on the company's peak stock price in July
News Spotify launches Publishing Analytics platform in Beta The new feature will give music publishers daily streaming statistics for their works
News Spotify allows Free Tier streaming on Connect-enabled speakers An update to Spotify’s Developers Kit lets hardware partners offer Spotify's Free Tier
Analysis News Profits, payments and podcasts: 5 takeaways from Spotify’s Q3 earnings call Platform confirms it's going to charge artists and labels for tools in the future
News Spotify wants to buy back up to $1bn of its stock The repurchase program expires on April 21, 2021
News Spotify: We don’t expect major labels to ‘hand us an additional pile of gross margin’ CFO Barry McCarthy speaks frankly on subject of re-negotiations with the labels