Not only is Universal ‘music’s most innovative company’ according to Spotify… it’s also ‘willing to lean in more aggressively’ to SPOT’s new marketing tools

“Our hope and expectation will be that other labels, both the big ones [and] small ones will lean in more aggressively over time.”
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Spotify execs praise TikTok owner’s new Spotify rival… while trashing Apple and Amazon Music’s reach

Does Spotify really have three times the amount of listening of Amazon Music?
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Apple wanted to improve songwriter pay to $0.00091 per stream. Spotify and Google weren’t keen.

Historical filings show why Spotify believes “lower royalty rates are critical” to the service’s future
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