The Cost of Spotify Bundling—$230M This Year, $3.1B Through 2032 Says NMPA At the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) annual meeting held in Alice Tulley Hall at…
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Spotify Faces Congressional Scrutiny Over Drug-Peddling Podcasts Senator Maggie Hassan is seeking more information from Spotify into the handling of recently discovered fake podcasts peddling real drugs…
Spotify India, Other Services Reportedly Remove ‘All’ Pakistani Releases Following Government Order DSPs including Spotify India have reportedly removed “all” Pakistani music in response to a related…
Royalties Rift Resolved: Snoop Dogg and Spotify Patch Things Up Just in Time for ‘Iz It a Crime?’ Release Just in time for today’s release of a…
Spotify Says Its US Subscriber Levels Are Just Fine, Thank You — Though Latest Data Shows Early-2025 Declines DMN Pro first reported serious subscriber slowdowns at Amazon…
Spotify’s US-Based Subscriber Levels Are Declining In Early 2025, Preliminary Data Reveals Last month, DMN Pro revealed that Spotify’s US-based subscriber growth rate was slowing in 2024…
Spotify Wastes No Time Rolling Out iOS Update Following Apple-Epic Ruling, Promising ‘Lower Prices, More Control, and Easier Access’ On the heels of a major ruling in…
Spotify Pushing Ahead with More Price Increases This Summer—But Not in the US, Says Latest Intel Spotify is planning to raise subscription prices in dozens of countries…
Spotify Expands Its AI Playlist Beta to 40 More Countries — Just Moments After YouTube MusicReleases AI-Generated Personalized Radio Stations Spotify expands its AI Playlist beta to…
Spotify 1,000-Stream Minimum Debate Continues As Distribution Exec Claps Back Against the ‘Patently Unfair Practice’ Let the debate over Spotify’s 1,000-stream royalties threshold continue: A distribution exec…
Spotify’s 1,000-Stream Minimum Cost Emerging Artists $47 Million During 2024, Industry Exec Estimates — Spotify Fires Back Against the Criticism By one industry exec’s estimate, Spotify’s 1,000-play…
Spotify Raises Prices in Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands — While Axing the ‘Mini’ Plan Worldwide Is Spotify kicking off another major pricing recalibration? Possibly, as the…
Heard This One Before? Kate Nash Calls Out Spotify for Paltry Payments — Spotify Says They Sent the Check to Universal Music Kate Nash calls out Spotify…
Spotify Stock Holding Up Amidst Broader Market Rout — Is SPOT a ‘Defensive Play’? Amid the recent stock market downturn, Spotify stock (SPOT) continues to hold up.…
NMPA Calls Out Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s Stock Sales Amid Bundling Dispute: ‘Songwriters and Publishers Need the Freedom to Negotiate Rates in a Free Market’ Who said…
Looks Like Spotify’s ‘Crash’ Outage Only Impacted Cracked Premium Versions That Spotify outage last week you may have heard about? It was all a ploy to out…
Surprise! Spotify Ends 2024 With Near-99% Bundling Rates In the US. But What Are the Bundling Stats at Other DSPs? A detailed look at the latest bundling…
A Spotify Stock Correction? SPOT Is Down Almost 20% During the Past Month Amid Broader Market Declines Against the backdrop of broader market declines, Spotify stock (NYSE:…
Will Anybody Pay $6 Extra for Spotify’s ‘Music Pro’? A Hard Look at Spotify’s Attempt to Break the Streaming Plateau Can Spotify’s latest ‘super-premium’ tier break the…
In Terms of Subscribers, Spotify Is Still the Top Dog In the US — But Apple Music Is Rapidly Narrowing the Lead Ahead of Its Major Super…
Spotify Mechanical Royalties Drop 30-40% In January for Multiple US-Based Publishers — What’s Going On? Maybe it’s just an accounting slip — or maybe it’s a serious…
Spotify posts $1.5bn annual operating profit for 2024, as subscriber base grows to 263m in Q4 Spotify saw its global Premium Subscriber base grow to 263 million…
Spotify Wins Big Against the MLC. But Will They Win This War? Here’s a music industry newsflash: everybody hates Spotify’s cut-rate ‘bundled’ royalty payments — except for…
Spotify Wins Big Against the MLC. But Will They Win This War? Here’s a music industry newsflash: everybody hates Spotify’s cut-rate ‘bundled’ royalty payments — except for…