The widow of Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill — who died in Feb. 2020 following a bout with pneumonia that was posthumously suspected to be Covid-19 — penned an open letter to Spotify slamming the streaming service for ostensibly choosing Joe Rogan’s vaccine misinformation over Neil Young’s music. “If …
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The biggest news in the music industry last week was a bit of a damp squib. Universal Music Group and Spotify jointly announced Wednesday (July 22nd) that they’d re-upped their global licensing deal — but aside from a vague commitment from Universal to utilize Spotify’s “two-sided marketplace” tools (something we’ll …
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Spotify is launching a new subscription plan, Spotify Premium Duo, that allows two people living at the same home address to each have their own premium account for a flat fee. Premium Duo subscriptions are available starting Wednesday, July 1st, for $12.99 a month, in 55 markets around the world …
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At the end of October, Spotify introduced a new option for labels that allows them to pay to “drive incremental streams” for their artists. This is the centerpiece of an advertising initiative called Marquee. Labels can now purchase a pop-up ad prompting users to listen to Taylor Swift’s Lover, for …
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“[We] missed on subs. That’s on us.” Spotify wants the world — including the full gamut of Wall Street — to know that it messed up. As reported Wednesday, the company’s global subscriber count grew to 108 million in the second quarter of this year, up by 8 million quarter-on-quarter,but …
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