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Spotify Q1 Revenue Rises 8%, Premium Subscribers Inch Up to 293 Million Amid U.S. Price Hikes
Spotify reported results for the first quarter of 2026 that were in line or slightly ahead of expectations across all key metrics —…
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Spotify launches Taste Profile editor
The feature, announced at SXSW by co-CEO Gustav Söderström, lets Premium listeners see and shape the data model powering their…
Culture
Apple Podcasts Is Launching New Video Features, Looking to Keep Pace With YouTube and Spotify
Apple Podcasts is finally giving video a full embrace. The tech giant, which pioneered the podcast audio format and helped popularize it,…
Culture
Ella Langley Announces Sophomore Album, ‘Dandelion,’ as ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Smash Continues a Spotify Streak Few Other Country Singles Have Enjoyed
Ella Langley could hardly have picked a hotter moment to announce the coming release of her sophomore album. Her “Choosin’ Texas” single…
Culture
Why Albums Drop and Movies Launch
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In the summer of 2007, Kanye West and 50 Cent…
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Spotify just announced another price hike. Here’s what’s really driving it
Everything from coffee to a used car is more expensive these days, and now your music streaming service is too. Spotify announced this…
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Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform
Last October, Spotify drew criticism for running U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruitment ads on the platform as part of…
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Even LinkedIn has hopped on the Spotify Wrapped train
First there was Spotify Wrapped. Then came Snapchat Wrapped, YouTube Wrapped, and even Uber Eats Wrapped. Shortly after, Saturday Night…
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Maybe Spotify knows more about you than you do
Spotify has a knack for mining your listening data into something fun and sharable rather than weird and creepy for its annual “Wrapped”…
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Trump’s DHS Uses Spotify Tradition to Try to Joke About Deportations
The Department of Homeland Security has innovated a cringey new way to spread its blatantly made-up statistics documenting its ethnic…
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Spotify Wrapped 2025: Eagerly checking your ‘listening age’? Everyone else is, too
The numbers are in for Spotify Wrapped: After the streaming music app dropped its popular year-in-review recap for 2025, the company said…
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Still waiting for Spotify Wrapped? Amazon Music just dropped its 2025 Delivered: Here’s how to see your year-in-review
Amazon Music just dropped its 2025 Delivered, an annual recap of your most streamed songs, artists, podcasts, and audiobooks, and the…
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When is Spotify Wrapped 2025 coming out? Release date history, how to access after app update message
As we near the final weeks of the year, platforms of all stripes will soon begin rolling out their annual recap features, which let users…
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That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Nick Arter, a thirty-five-year-old in Washington, D.C., never quite managed to become a professional musician the old-fashioned way. He…
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Supplement your Spotify stream with these classic radio treasures
I love FM radio. It’s okay: You can call me a Luddite. My alarm clock is the local public radio station. I love toggling between a few…
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New lawsuit alleges Spotify allows streaming fraud
A NEW lawsuit alleges streaming giant Spotify turns a blind eye to vast networks of bots that inflate streaming figures to benefit…
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Spotify Tops 700 Million Monthly Users in Q3, Revenue Climbs 13%: ‘It All Comes Back to User Fundamentals,’ Says Outgoing CEO Daniel Ek
Spotify saw double-digit growth on its free and paid-subscription tiers for the third quarter of 2025, as the audio streaming delivered…
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Spotify Raises Subscription Prices in U.K. for Second Time in 18 Months, U.S. Price Hike Likely Soon
Spotify is raising subscription prices in the U.K. for the second time in 18 months, a rep for the company confirms to Variety, and is…
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Spotify Partners With Sony, Universal, Warner and More to Develop AI Music Products
In a significant step towards interfacing with AI and its impact on the music industry, Spotify has partnered with the big three record…
Culture
Spotify video podcasts are coming to Netflix
Spotify video podcasts are coming to Netflix, further diversifying the types of content on the Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming service…
Culture
Claudia and Jackie Oshry’s Podcast ‘The Toast’ Lands Massive Three-Year Deal to Stay at Dear Media (EXCLUSIVE)
Following a heated bidding war, Dear Media prevailed in keeping Claudia and Jackie Oshry’s juggernaut podcast “The Toast” in its fold.…
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Spotify Opens Up Ad Inventory to Amazon’s Demand-Side Platform
Spotify competes directly with Amazon Music for subscribers and ad dollars — but now Spotify is teaming up with a different division of…
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Spotify says it removed millions of 'spammy' AI-generated music tracks
Spotify has removed more than 75 million AI-generated “spammy” music tracks from its platform over the past 12 months, the company said…
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Spotify and the problem with our ‘everything app’ era
How many apps do you use to chat with other people? I don’t mean tweeting out into the ether. I mean actually interacting with a fellow…