News J Cole breaks both Apple Music and Spotify’s day one stream record in the US… with some surprising numbers Spotify obtains 36.7m US streams from KOD on day one. Apple Music gets 64.5m.
News Tencent Music readies for $25bn IPO in the US – report China-based streaming service said to be interviewing potential banks over the next month with plans to float in the US
Music Business Jobs SPOTIFY Spotify – Producer Live Events: Latin (US) Applicants must be fluent in Spanish and EnglishJob type: LiveLocation: New York, United StatesApplication deadline: May 7, 2018
Analysis Windowing on Spotify is finally happening – but is it worth it for the labels? Spotify gained over $300m from its new deals with labels last year
News Spotify acquires mechanical licensing tech platform Loudr Loudr specializes in automatically identifying composer data
News Spotify launches $12.99-per-month bundle with Hulu in the US Companies build on $4.99-per-month offer to students launched last year
Analysis Can Apple Music and Amazon catch Spotify’s subscriber base by the end of 2018? Apple is currently growing its subscriber base at around double the rate of Spotify's
News After Spotify’s NYSE debut, another music streaming service mulls stock exchange flotation Qobuz says it will consider move following new funding round
News Will Spotify launch its first hardware product this month? Streaming service to make an announcement on April 24th
Analysis How much will artists get paid from the major labels’ Spotify profits? Sony Corp just gave us a precious hint into the amount of money about to hit the artist community
News Sony Music sold 17.2% of its shares in Spotify yesterday, worth $250m+ Major continues to hold just under 5% of stock in Spotify, says Sony Corp
News Sony’s stake in Spotify worth $1.5bn, as streaming company finishes opening day on NYSE with $26.5bn valuation Spotify valuation slips 9.8% from opening trade - but Daniel Ek will be happy
News Spotify valued at $30bn as it begins trading on New York Stock Exchange Value has trebled in past three years
News Hacked Spotify subscriptions selling on the dark web for $0.21 – report Subscription to Spotify going for a tiny fraction of its original price says the Dark Web Market Price Index
News Swedish telco firm Telia sells Spotify stake for $272m, avoiding stock market uncertainty Deal suggests that Spotify's current valuation must be at least above $19.4bn