EMI Records Streaming Manager, Alex Bingham, crunches the numbers that drove Spotify’s chart last year
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Spotify to launch in South Korea in first half of 2021
South Korea will become Spotify’s 93rd active market
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You can now get a Spotify subscription for $0.34 a week in India
Spotify launches Premium Mini in India
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Spotify says you can watch music videos and documentaries on its platform (you can’t). Are they on the way?
“Watch music videos, documentaries, and exclusive video series, all from within the Spotify app.”
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David Crosby forced to sell his song catalog: ‘It’s my only option… streaming stole my record money.’
Crosby, Stills & Nash legend is selling his music like Bob Dylan – but says he’s doing so as he has no other financial choice
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Spotify just invented AI technology that will police songwriter plagiarism
Spotify’s in-house AI expert, François Pachet, is a co-founder of the new technology, now being reviewed for a European patent
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Not only is Universal ‘music’s most innovative company’ according to Spotify… it’s also ‘willing to lean in more aggressively’ to SPOT’s new marketing tools
“Our hope and expectation will be that other labels, both the big ones [and] small ones will lean in more aggressively over time.”
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Spotify explores podcast-only $7.99-per-month subscription prospect in new survey
Company also looking into $2.99-per-month and $4.99-per-month tiers
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Spotify to buy podcast ad platform Megaphone for $235m, bringing its total podcast acquisition spend to over $800m in the past 2 years
Megaphone provides hosting and ad-insertion capabilities for podcast publishers
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3 things to know about Spotify’s controversial new ‘pay for influence’ tool, Discovery Mode
MBW sits down with Spotify to ask about its new tool, which some have accused of bearing the hallmarks of payola
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