Music Business News: Sweden News Spotify expands video creator monetization program to nine new markets The Spotify Partner Program is expanding to eligible creators in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland News Pophouse Entertainment, the firm behind ABBA Voyage, closes $1.3bn music rights buying fund Pophouse said it has already deployed about 30% of the fund Analysis The best argument why Spotify (and other music streaming platforms) need to increase their prices in 2025. Why the oft-ignored metric of ARPCH gives the music industry a fresh perspective – and fresh insights – on streaming's pricing model News Daniel Ek has made $724m so far from selling Spotify shares with latest $28.5m cash-out As of Thursday, Ek ranked 384th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with a net worth of $7.95 billion News How Melodifestivalen impacts the domestic charts in Sweden, as the market picks its Eurovision contestant for 2025 KAJ won the event with their track Bara Bada Bastu and will represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest News 12m artists uploaded music to Spotify last year. Less than 0.6% generated $10,000 or more in royalties. Spotify has published the latest edition of its annual Loud & Clear music economics report News No, Spotify hasn’t gone down – unless you were pirating the Premium service Many listeners who were using a 'crack' to listen to Spotify Premium for free have been locked out of the service News Daniel Ek bags another $29m from Spotify share sale, cashing out close to $700m since 2023 The Spotify CEO has sold $695.3 million of company stock since July 2023, regulatory filings show1 2 … 72 Next
News Spotify expands video creator monetization program to nine new markets The Spotify Partner Program is expanding to eligible creators in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
News Pophouse Entertainment, the firm behind ABBA Voyage, closes $1.3bn music rights buying fund Pophouse said it has already deployed about 30% of the fund
Analysis The best argument why Spotify (and other music streaming platforms) need to increase their prices in 2025. Why the oft-ignored metric of ARPCH gives the music industry a fresh perspective – and fresh insights – on streaming's pricing model
News Daniel Ek has made $724m so far from selling Spotify shares with latest $28.5m cash-out As of Thursday, Ek ranked 384th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with a net worth of $7.95 billion
News How Melodifestivalen impacts the domestic charts in Sweden, as the market picks its Eurovision contestant for 2025 KAJ won the event with their track Bara Bada Bastu and will represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest
News 12m artists uploaded music to Spotify last year. Less than 0.6% generated $10,000 or more in royalties. Spotify has published the latest edition of its annual Loud & Clear music economics report
News No, Spotify hasn’t gone down – unless you were pirating the Premium service Many listeners who were using a 'crack' to listen to Spotify Premium for free have been locked out of the service
News Daniel Ek bags another $29m from Spotify share sale, cashing out close to $700m since 2023 The Spotify CEO has sold $695.3 million of company stock since July 2023, regulatory filings show
