Analysis News Spotify is on a collision course with the major record companies. Here’s why. Spotify has a number of tricky issues to face down during its 2019 negotiations with the biggest labels
News Deezer’s new Middle East deal is not good news for Spotify or Apple Platform will soon be the exclusive streaming partner of its new investor, Rotana
News Spotify rolls out songwriter and producer credits on mobile for iOS users Mobile app updated with feature from today
News Spotify inks deal with Samsung to be Apple rival’s ‘go-to music service provider’ Daniel Ek says deal will "help artists reach new fans"
Analysis News Apple Music beats Spotify to biggest day-one streaming number for Travis Scott’s Astroworld Following J.Cole and Drake albums, Apple's done it again...
News Warner sells entire stake in Spotify, crediting artists with $126m of the money A quarter of total gets credited to artist accounts
Analysis Why Spotify faces a difficult hardware conundrum (and so does Sonos) Can both music 'pureplay' companies keep the likes of Amazon and Apple at bay?
News Fake artists still dominate Spotify ‘chill’ playlists. Now Universal is fighting back… with Apple Music. Nothing has changed on Ambient Chill, Sleep and Music For Concentration
Analysis News Apple Music has over 25m paying subscribers in North America (and more than Spotify) Apple and Spotify now have comfortably over 50m paying subs in the US and Canada between them
Analysis News Three years ago, Pandora had more users than Spotify. Now it’s over 100m behind. Total active users on the US-based platform fell yet again to 71.4m in Q2
News Confirmed: Sony cashed in 50% of its Spotify shares for $768m earlier this year Firm's remaining bulk of shares are currently worth in the region of $862m
News Official: Troy Carter is leaving Spotify in September Exec departs after two years with Daniel Ek's company
News Spotify appoints Austin Daboh as Head of Shows & Editorial in the UK Exec steps up to succeed his former boss, George Ergatoudis
Analysis News Spotify: 7 things you need to know about the company’s financial health and its Q2 results Free users, premium users, churn, Tencent, Daniel Ek, direct licensing - it's all here...