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The largest music organization in the world, Universal Music Group, and streaming giant Spotify announced a multi-year direct agreement on Sunday that will impact publishing and recording royalties. Although the joint statement did not specify the...

A coalition of businesses, which included Spotify and Meta, denounced the European Union on Thursday for making “fragmented and inconsistent” decisions regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and data privacy. The companies signed an open letter, along with...

Music streaming giant Spotify said on Monday that it will lay off around 1,500 employees, or 17% of its workforce, to bring down costs, after letting 600 of its staff go in January, and 200 more...

Swedish music-streaming giant Spotify says it will cut 6% of its about 10,000 employees, citing a need to improve efficiency. “In hindsight, I was too ambitious in investing ahead of our revenue growth,” boss Daniel Ek...

Taylor Swift’s 10th album “Midnights,” marking a gradual return to pop for the US singer-songwriter, sparked an online fan frenzy following its witching hour release on Friday — and crashed Spotify in the process. Swifties from...

China’s ByteDance Ltd is in talks with music labels for expanding its music-streaming service globally to compete with industry leaders such as Spotify Technology SA, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The TikTok parent plans...

Music aficionados usually get the chance to enjoy a 30-day free trial for Spotify Premium Subscription where they can indulge over 70 million songs and more than 2.2 million podcasts without any interruption of advertisements. However,...

Spotify Technology SA beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter revenue on Wednesday, as the music streaming company hit 155 million paid subscribers for its premium service. Premium subscribers, who account for most of its revenue, were...

Music-streaming service Spotify went down for users worldwide for over an hour yesterday. Users could play only songs already downloaded to their devices. And in many cases songs cut out after just a few seconds. The...

Spotify Technology SA launched its music streaming service in Russia, and 12 other regions as part of its strategy of expansion after breaking into India in 2019. It will start to offer free and subscription services...