Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024 — some $1 billion more than last year, the previous record — making its total around $60 billion since it was founded in 2006.

The new publishing agreement establishes a direct license between Spotify and Universal Music Publishing Group. By Zoe G. Phillips Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a new multiyear deal ...

Even though music and commerce have always been uncomfortable partners in a marriage of necessity, the relationship has never been sourer. Call it “the Spotify paradox.” Streaming — led by ...

What happened? In a word: Spotify. Australian audiences have been captured by the global streaming giant. Big American pop stars rule the streams, and local music is suffering. Industry figures ...

As a notable contender in the music streaming landscape alongside Spotify and Apple Music ... you may require an external digital-to-analog converter (DAC), which you can learn all about in ...

Here’s how it works. Spotify is the biggest music streaming service in the world. It's got an enormous collection of tracks to listen to, a growing audiobook library, and some of the best music ...

Spotify hit on the idea of playlists, a way of curating songs to be background music The music industry in 2006 was desperate, having been kneecapped by piracy — first Napster, then a host of ...

He is an avid record collector and streaming music enthusiast. Credentials Ty was nominated for Best New Journalist at the Australian IT Journalism awards, but he has only ever won one thing.

Spotify Technology S.A., together with its subsidiaries ... unlimited online and offline streaming access to its catalog of music and podcasts without commercial breaks to its subscribers.

After Spotify launched in the US in 2011, she became an early adapter. Virtually all of the world’s recorded music accessible on one platform — what was not to love? But Pelly studied ...

Drake has withdrawn his legal petition against Universal Music Group (UMG) and Spotify after accusing the companies of colluding to discount the streaming licensing rates on Kendrick Lamar’s ...