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Daniel Ek rubbishes iHeart boss Pittman’s claim that ‘73% of Spotify’s listening comes from just 3% of their audience’

iHeart now reaches 275 million Americans monthly – more than the top two closest broadcast radio competitors combined
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Spotify to raise family subscription price by 13% in Scandinavia – report

Spotify hiked prices by 10% in Norway last summer – and they haven’t come back down
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Amazon Music’s subscriber base isn’t really growing faster than Spotify’s

Spotify is increasing its subs base by over 20m people year-on-year – Amazon is dragging significantly behind
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Spotify Tests More Expensive Subscriptions as Labels Complain About Falling Per Listener Revenue

Spotify will test raising subscription prices in Scandinavia with an eye towards taking the increases worldwide, according to a new report. The test comes at a time when labels are complaining about falling per listener payouts from the steamer. Spotify will raise the price of its family plan 13%, according…

Spotify In Talks With Apple To Add Siri Voice Control

Spotify and Apple are in talks to add Siri voice control of the music streamer despite an antitrust complaint lodged by Spotify in the European Union against Apple earlier this year. Apple would let iPhone and Apple device users tell Siri to play songs, playlists, and albums on Spotify, according…

Major Labels Earn $16K Every Second From Streaming, But Will It Last?

Major labels are now pulling down over $16,000 per second in streaming which, while an impressive number, is somewhat tempered by the fact that the growth of streaming itself seems to be slowing down. ______________________________ Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Yes, you read the headline right. The…

Apple Music vs Spotify In One Easy Infographic

Spotify and Apple Music are the two biggest players in music streaming. But how do they compare in size, availability, cost, features and more? This infographic provides some answers. via SetApp

Apple in talks with Spotify to enable music playback control via Siri- report

A report in the The Information cites “three people familiar with the discussions”
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