Spotify became Samsung’s ‘go-to music service provider’ in 2018
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An acquisition you should care about: Pex buys music rights platform Dubset in $25m+ deal
“This acquisition will immediately expand rights holders’ abilities to locate, protect, and monetize use of their catalog”
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Spotify fake stream site smashed by record industry injunction in Germany
“This should be seen as a signal to other manipulation services that we are prepared to take action against them.”
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Glassnote hires Spotify’s Dexter Batson as UK Head of Promotion
“Dexter’s experience is perfect for how music gets exposed and grows in this exciting era.”
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What the US record industry should fear about its future – and what it deserves to celebrate
Netflix, vinyl, streaming and Spotify’s share of revenues all feature in MBW’s review of the USA market
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It’s happened: The major labels are now generating over $1m every hour from streaming
MBW analysis shows that Universal saw recorded music streaming growth in excess of $600m in 2019
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K-Pop has been streamed for more than 134bn minutes on Spotify since 2014
There have been more than 41bn K-Pop streams on the platform to date
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Spotify rebrands New Music Friday playlist, which has 8m followers globally
Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist – a curated selection of ‘the most anticipated’ new tracks of the week – has been rebranded globally. According to the press release announcing the ‘visual relaunch’, Spotify…
Spotify & Resident Advisor enter global partnership ‘to drive millions of music fans to local venues’
Localized Resident Advisor event listings to be promoted within the app
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YouTube says it paid the music industry over $3bn last year – equivalent to 20% of its annual ad revenue. Is that good?
On balance, YouTube looks likely to have just become the global music industry’s second biggest digital partner
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