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 ...
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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 ...
Taylor Swift to premiere ‘Opalite’ music video on Spotify and Apple Music – with YouTube release delayed by two days
Taylor Swift will release the music video for Opalite exclusively on Spotify Premium and Apple Music on Friday (February 6) at ...
Spotify, Sony, Warner and UMG sue shadow library over the scraping of 86 million tracks
Back in December, Anna’s Archive attempted to “back up” Spotify, allegedly scraping the platform’s metadata and audio files in an ...
Spotify hikes price for Premium subscribers in the US, other markets
Spotify is raising prices for Premium subscribers in the United States, Estonia, and Latvia.The streaming giant is notifying users this ...
Spotify is raising its Premium prices again for users in the US
Spotify has announced that its Premium subscription price will be rising by $1-$2 for its US customers, depending on your ...
Spotify Spotlights Artists, Songwriters to Watch In 2026
Guitar bands aren’t on the way out in Australia, if Spotify’s watchlist is anything to go by. The streaming music ...
Rostrum Pacific inks direct deals with Spotify, TikTok; appoints Samantha Moore to lead new distro platform SpaceHeater
Rostrum Pacific, the parent company of indie label Rostrum Records, has secured direct licensing agreements with Spotify and TikTok.The company ...
Spotify opens second LA studio as it doubles down on podcasts
Spotify unveiled a new studio dedicated solely for podcasts in Hollywood this week, deepening its footprint in Los Angeles as ...
