News Another senior Spotify exec out as Graham James exits Dustee Jenkins leads Spotify's global comms from New York
News After Spotify, Ticketmaster inks deal with Samsung for voice assistant Bixby Samsung Galaxy Note9 users in North America can now use voice to search for events
News Spotify is going big on podcasts to help fix its troubled finances Joe Budden Podcast comes exclusively to platform, as Ebb & Flow launches with vodka sponsor
News US album sales race turns ugly as Nicki Minaj accuses Spotify of ‘taking away my promotion’ Artist also hits out at Billboard's chart rules, and Travis Scott's merch tactics
News How successful are Spotify’s ‘direct’ artist signings? Chartmetric report compares DIY artists with major label signings
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