We’re gonna go ahead and guess that Daniel Ek had a Holiday to remember. Spotify‘s Swedish co-founder and CEO cashed out USD $27.72 million in company shares on December 23 – a handsome boost to anyone’s late-festive-gift budget. Indeed, across the course of December,...
I first heard about ghost artists in the summer of 2017. At the time, I was new to the music-streaming beat. I had been researching the influence of major labels on Spotify playlists since the previous year, and my first report had just been published. Within a few...
Research firm Luminate has published its mid-year report for 2024, with a raft of stats exploring the continued growth of the recorded music market. The headline stat: 2.29 trillion. That’s how many on-demand audio streams there were globally in the first six months...
It’s been some week for Daniel Ek. Yesterday (April 23), Spotify‘s share price jumped up by over 11% following the company’s Q1 results announcement, in which it confirmed its biggest-ever quarterly operating profit. That share price rise gave Spotify a market...
The campaign against Spotify’s sneaky audiobook bundling plans in the US is gaining momentum, with the boss of the National Music Publishers Associationdeclaring “it’s time to fight again”, and the Association Of Independent Music Publishers committing its...
Universal Music Group and TikTok, by way of a joint announcement, have confirmed that they have struck a new licensing deal – three months after UMG pulled its recordings catalog from the service. What does this new deal mean for UMG and its artists and songwriters?...
