Tag archives: Spotify

Listen to Our Valentine’s Day Playlist: Young Thug, MJ Cole, Bladee & More

This Valentine’s Day we’ve decided to share the love by putting together a playlist of all our favourite love songs. There are nostalgic classics from the likes of MJ Cole, Nelly, and Kano as well as some newer cuts from Tory Lanez, Frank Ocean, AJ Tracey and more. Our blend of tracks beats rapidly between UKG anthems, sadboy rap, funk, soul, hip-hop and everything […]

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A year after trying to cut songwriters’ pay, Spotify boosts writer visibility with launch of pages feature

New feature wins praise from writers – but bad vibes still lurk in the background
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Spotify to pay $250m for the Ringer, bringing its total podcast acquisition deals to $650m in the past 12 months

The Ringer is the SPOT’s latest acquisition following Parcast, Anchor and Gimlet media in 2019
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Spotify’s standalone Kids app rolled out in the UK and Australia

Standalone app will eventually expand to all markets that have Premium Family
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Tencent, set to control 10% of Universal, also owns 9.1% of Spotify – but Daniel Ek has the final say on firm’s stake

Spotify’s founder and CEO has control of voting shares linked to Tencent’s stake in his company
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Daniel Ek talks paid-for promotion, podcasts and Spotify’s mission to become ‘the world’s No.1 audio platform’

What does Spotify’s CEO have to say on key issues facing the company in 2020?
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Spotify now has 124m Premium subscribers, growing by over 3m per month

The average paying Spotify subscriber across the world (ARPU) in Q4 2019 paid €4.65 per month
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After suing Spotify for mistreatment, independent music company files 10 copyright infringement lawsuits against YouTube, Apple and others

Apple, Google, YouTube, Amazon, SoundCloud, Pandora, Deezer, 7digital, iHeartradio and Rhapsody named as defendants
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