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Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Sets Record With 1B Spotify Streams in First Week of Release
Taylor Swift has broken another record. The singer’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, is now Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single week — after only five days. On Wednesday, it passed 1 billion streams since its April 19 release. This marks the latest record for Swift’s new album. On the day of its release, it […]
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Spotify Hits 239M Paying Subs in First Quarter
Audio streaming giant Spotify has reached 239 million paying premium subscribers for the first quarter of 2024, up from 236 million at the fourth quarter of 2023, which met analyst expectations. Stockholm-headquartered Spotify, led by CEO Daniel Ek, also reported that it hit 615 million monthly active users (MAUs) as of the end of the first quarter to March […]
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Taylor Swift Breaks Multiple Records at Spotify With ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Album
Breaking records is nothing new to Taylor Swift, and she’s done it again with her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. Spotify revealed on Friday, mere hours after the Grammy-winning singer dropped the album that Tortured Poets became the audio giant’s most-streamed album in a single day. Swift also became the most-streamed artist in […]
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Spotify Names Christian Luiga CFO
Music streaming giant Spotify Technology said Thursday that it has appointed Christian Luiga as its new chief financial officer. The executive joins Spotify, led by CEO Daniel Ek, from Saab AB, a European defense and security company, where he served as deputy CEO and CFO. He replaces Paul Vogel. Spotify had in December announced that Vogel […]
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Universal Music Group Partners With Spotify to Offer Artists More Promotional Tools
Universal Music Group has expanded its relationship with Spotify to involve more promotional tools for musicians and greater distribution, amid its dispute with TikTok. As part of the partnership, Spotify will release new promotional and social features for UMG artists, starting with the ability to share teasers of upcoming songs on the platform. Under a […]
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Joni Mitchell Returns Music to Spotify Years After Boycotting Streamer
Joni Mitchell quietly returned to Spotify, two years after boycotting the music streamer. Fans noticed on Friday that the singer’s music seemingly reappeared on the platform, days after Neil Young also made his return to the audio giant. However, the “Help Me” singer has yet to address her return. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out […]
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Neil Young Returning to Spotify After Joe Rogan Boycott
Neil Young’s music will return to Spotify, the singer announced Tuesday. Young’s music was initially pulled from the music streamer in early 2022 after the artist published (and later took down) an open letter telling Spotify to address the vaccine misinformation on Joe Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, or lose access to his catalog. […]
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Noah Kahan, Gracie Abrams, Ice Spice and More Best New Artist Nominees Kick Off Grammys Weekend at Spotify Party
Ahead of Sunday night’s Grammys, this year’s crop of best new artist nominees took the stage at the annual Spotify party on Thursday. Held on a soundstage on the Paramount lot, Spotify’s Best New Artist Party was a star-studded affair and featured performances from Ice Spice, Noah Kahan, Gracie Abrams, Victoria Monét, Coco Jones, Jelly […]
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Netflix, Spotify, Lionsgate Stocks Jump in 2023, While Disney Ekes Out a Gain
In 2022, the stocks of streaming giant Netflix and most Hollywood giants fell to Earth. In 2023, major media and tech players had another grim year with investors as faith in streaming took another hit, even if their share prices ended the year on a roll, helped by renewed M&A talk. Netflix soared back to […]
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After a Year of Pullback, Podcast Industry Hopes to Regroup In 2024 — With an AI Boost
Going into 2024, podcasting executives remain incredibly bullish on growth in the sector, with an eye to creating multiple revenue streams for creators and using artificial intelligence and video to expand the audience. While the podcast sector faced some pullback in the past year, notably with layoffs and programming cuts at Spotify, Wondery CEO Jen […]
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Spotify Inks Podcast Deal With Warner Bros. Discovery for CNN, HBO and More Shows
Spotify has teamed with Warner Bros. Discovery on a podcast distribution and monetization partnership. The deal will see Spotify’s enterprise podcast platform, Megaphone, host and distribute select podcasts from Warner Bros. Discovery, including CNN’s All There Is with Anderson Cooper, The Assignment with Audie Cornish and HBO’s The Official Game of Thrones Podcast: House of […]
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Spotify Cancels ‘Heavyweight’ and ‘Stolen’ Podcasts
Spotify is canceling two of its podcasts, Heavyweight and Stolen, the music and podcasting platform confirmed Monday. The two podcasts will finish out their seasons at Spotify and then can shop their shows elsewhere. The cancellation of the podcasts, both of which were produced by Spotify’s Gimlet Media, was unrelated to the layoffs of 17 […]
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