Average Spotify subscriber across the world (ARPU) is paying €4.71, roughly flat year-on-year
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What To Expect From Spotify’s Q1 Earning Report Monday (NYSE:SPOT)
Spotify (NYSE:SPOT) will share its first quarter 2019 financial results on Monday, April 29, 2019 before market opens. It is the first report to investors since the streamer’s big bet on podcasting with the acquisition of Gimlet Media and Anchor. Analysts generally view Spotify earnings and stock favorably and expect…
Khalid just became the biggest artist in the world on Spotify, with over 50m monthly listeners
RCA-signed act now has 50,043,332 monthly listeners on the streaming platform
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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Just in case you missed something the first time around, we’re taking a moment to look back on another full week of music industry news, revisiting a big Record Store Day for vinyl, the somewhat surprising top ten global artists, the arrival of Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ on Spotify, three years after…
How To Succeed On Spotify: A Playlisting Professional’s Guide
In theory, streaming should provide all artists with a fair chance of organically building an audience, provided they can game the system. As with any game, however, success depends largely on the skill of the player, and raising your music’s profile on a streaming services requires a carefully implemented strategy….
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Amazon is readying a hi-def music streaming service
At least one major label has already licensed hew HD service, MBW can reveal
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Spotify Bans Entire ‘Blood on the Dance Floor’ Catalog
Electro-pop group Blood on the Dance Floor had their entire catalog pulled from Spotify, over alleged violations of the streaming service’s content policy. Blood on the Dance floor is under fire after MetalSucks and Huffington Post detailed allegations against frontman Dahvie Vanity (real name Jesus David Torres) from 21 women,…
Has Spotify Regained #1 Spot In US Subscriptions?
Last month the headline was that Apple Music had unofficially surpassed Spotify in U.S. paid subscribers. But new data suggests that Spotify may have pulled ahead in this neck and neck race for streaming supremacy. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has released a research report estimating that Spotify added 3…
Indian High Court Orders Spotify to Delete 120,000 Songs
Things haven’t gone so well for Spotify in India. Two months ago, Spotify finally launched in India. At first, everything seemed to go well for the streaming music giant. In its first week, the company announced that it had reached 1 million users on i…