Spotify Co-CEOs outline AI ambitions and more on Q1 2026 earnings call
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Spotify to show AI tags in Song Credits, where artists have chosen to disclose through their label or distributor
Spotify has started testing a feature that shows whether artificial intelligence was used in making a song — but the ...
Record labels and Spotify seek $322M default judgment from pirate group Anna’s Archive
The three major music companies and Spotify are seeking $322.2 million in damages from shadow library Anna’s Archive, after the ...
Spotify launches SongDNA in beta for Premium subscribers, tracing how songs connect through shared producers, samples and covers
Spotify is rolling out ‘SongDNA’ — a tool that lets subscribers trace how one song connects to another through shared ...
Spotify lets users steer their own algorithm with new Taste Profile feature
Spotify is testing a new feature that lets users steer their own algorithm, offering the ability to let you review ...
Spotify says it paid out $213M to Australian music rightsholders in 2025, up 7% YoY
Spotify reports that it paid out AUD $330 million (approx. USD $212.7M) to Australian music rightsholders last year, up 7% ...
Spotify says it has ‘helped artists generate’ $1bn+ in ticket sales to date. Now it’s teaming up with SeatGeek to drive even more
Last month, Spotify‘s Head of Music, Charlie Hellman, revealed in a blog post that the streaming giant paid out over ...
The Empire Strikes Back: The majors and Merlin gained (a bit) of market share on Spotify last year.
It’s become a perennial trade music industry story: The combined global market share of the three major record companies and ...
Songs are reaching 1bn Spotify streams 14x faster than a decade ago, and other stats from Chartmetric’s 2025 Year in Music report
In 2015, it took an average of 2,729 days — roughly seven and a half years — for a song ...
Spotify eyes AI ‘derivatives’ as new revenue stream for artists – says its tech to let fans make remixes and covers is ready
Spotify says it wants to enable listeners to interact with their favorite artists’ music through AI – and that the ...
