June Spotify hires music manager Troy Carter who had represented such artists as Lady Gaga and John Legend to be its liaison to artists and recording companies. In response, Spotify jokingly created a job listing looking for a President of Playlists. February Spotify launches original music-themed podcasts from Gimlet Media and Panoply in its latest effort to diversify its offerings.
April Spotify announces a new deal with Universal Music Group, one of the big three record companies, to license its music.
A key component of the deal is that some new music will only be available to subscribers for a brief window of time. June Taylor Swift returns to Spotify for the first time since her public breakup with the service.
December Spotify and Tencent invest in each other. Spotify establishes a strategic relationship with the largest digital service in China, particularly in music streaming, and the value of its stake in Tencent Music, which is also expected to go public, could wipe out all of its losses and then some.
February Spotify files to go public in a direct listing that will not raise any additional funds. AWS Deloitte Genpact.
Events Innovation Festival. Follow us:. By David Lidsky long Read. March Ek announced that Spotify has one million paying subscribers. February IPO rumors start in earnest. Design Co. Design Trump let this beloved ice rink fall to pieces. It secured exclusive deals with artists like Drake, Frank Ocean and Taylor Swift to stream their music first. Apple's iTunes store had always allowed users to pay per download of a song or album. But Apple Music introduced paying a monthly subscription for unlimited access to a library of music.
It's not the only platform to adapt its original business model to make room for streaming. SoundCloud launched SoundCloud Go in The company expanded from being a platform solely for new and unsigned musicians and DJs to share their work. However its success has often been questioned as it only has half of the major label content found on Spotify and has to compete against other big names. Despite its success, Spotify's rise to the top hasn't been without a few bumps in the road.
Spotify works by getting its content from major record labels as well as independent artists - and pays the artists, songwriters and label royalties for streamed music.
Taylor Swift was one of the first artists to publicly speak out against Spotify for how much it paid artists - calling the whole platform an "experiment". Spotify has seen consistent quarter-on-quarter growth of its active user base since In fact, Spotify has added million monthly active users over the last two years Q2 — Q2 According to insights shared in a recent Spotify shareholder letter, Spotify estimates that it will have million monthly active users by the end of A forecasted increase of Sources: Spotify , Statista.
That equates to over Source: Spotify. Spotify has million Premium subscribers worldwide. An increase from only million subscribers in early Spotify estimates that the audio streaming service is expected to have million Premium subscribers by the end of An annual increase of at least Sources: Statista , Spotify.
Spotify has two revenue streams: subscription fees from Premium subscribers and an ad-supported business. Source: Spotify , Statista. Spotify has a Among the million people that have a music streaming subscription, million of them are subscribed to Spotify as of mid Drake is the most streamed artist, with more than 40 billion lifetime plays ChartMasters. By signing up you agree to our privacy policy. You can opt out anytime.
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