How to Cancel Spotify Premium Is Now a Trending Keyword

Why are so many people searching for how to cancel Spotify? Did the New York Times fail to convince them? Several weeks ago, Wall Street rejected Spotify’s IPO (once again.) The Swedish company run by Daniel Ek now faces possible bankrupt this year. Company executives worked to make Spotify’s IPO attractive. Yet, the company now […]

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Are the major labels in danger of turning music streaming into a monopoly owned by Apple?

Songtradr’s Paul Wiltshire warns majors not to kill off Spotify
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Spotify turns the tide for Katy Perry as she clocks up 18.5m streams

Chained to the Rhythm is currently No.6 on Spotify’s Global Top 50 chart

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Spotify adding 1,000 jobs in New York as it moves to Four World Trade Center

Spotify has signed a lease for a huge New York office at Four World Trade Center – where it will create over 1,000 jobs. The streaming company has committed to taking 378,000 square feet on floors 62-72 of the skyscraper – more than double the size of its current NY base. The news was revealed earlier … Continued

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Will Google Play Music + YouTube = Spotify Destruction?

Google Play Music and YouTube Music will soon become one app. Will that be a crushing blow to Spotify? Google Play is an online music storage service that lets users save 50,000 tracks from their own libraries.  It also offers subscribers on demand streaming to any song within the Google Play Music Catalog.  YouTube Music, […]

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Spotify Premium, marching towards 50m subs, goes free… in New York Times bundle deal

Promotion mirrors similar deal run with The Times (UK) in 2014

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If Spotify delays its IPO into 2018, it faces some serious financial pain

How much has Daniel Ek’s company promised in terms to secure a $1bn loan intake?
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Why Songwriters Are Getting Screwed by the People Claiming to Protect Them

Songwriters: News Flash! There’s No ‘S’ In ‘NMPA’.  But there is an ‘S’ in de ‘minimis’, ‘disingenuous’, and ‘screwed’. The following guest post comes from Jody Dunitz, a longtime entertainment industry executive and investor.  On the publishing side, Jody is a former Executive Vice President of Sony/ATV Music Publishing.   Marty Bandier, chairman of Sony/ATV […]

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