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Spotify says it got your Wrapped 2024 wrong. But this year it's going to fix it

Hot topics such as Wrapped, possible price increases, a new ‘Pro’ tier and AI music just got aired at their Open House event

MusicRadar · Jun 3, 2025

Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans?

Spotify was started, according to its official claims, because its founders “love music and piracy was killing it”. In Mood Machine, music journalist Liz Pelly argues this is rewriting history.

The Conversation · May 20, 2025

Why Spotify Stock Still Has Room to Run in 2025

Spotify stock has recovered almost all of its post-earnings drop; analysts are lowering their price targets but still have a bullish outlook for SPOT stock

MarketBeat · May 3, 2025

Mood Machine by Liz Pelly review – a savage indictment of Spotify

The global streaming behemoth has made music blander and life harder for artists, according to this enraging portrait

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2025

Spotify will 'double down' on music in 2025, but does that mean Hi-Fi or AI?

Spotify has big plans for 2025 after its first full-year profit, and maybe we'll get the new music tier we've wanted for years.

TechRadar · Feb 6, 2025

"I’m not sure that journey is fully understood. And frankly, we probably haven’t done a very good job of explaining it": Spotify just posted their first-ever year of profit

All those subscriptions, all those ads, all those penny payouts and they still couldn’t make a buck?

MusicRadar · Feb 5, 2025

Daniel Ek's body scanning startup with 100k waitlist hits £1.4bn valuation

The Spotify co-founder's startup, dubbed the Apple of healthcare, aims to identify health issues for a price of £299.

Fortune · Jan 23, 2025

Spotify HR chief says remote staff aren’t ‘children,’ resisting RTO mandates

Spotify isn’t planning to follow Amazon and scrap its “work from anywhere” policy, but its HR chief admitted remote work isn’t ideal.

Fortune · Jan 7, 2025

What the Ek? Spotify founder is richer than any musical artist, ever

And Spotify nuke Spotify Unwrapped, the protest site that worked out just how little they’re paying artists

MusicRadar · Dec 9, 2024

We Asked Spotify Why This Year’s Wrapped Felt So Off, Here’s What They Said

This year's Spotify Wrapped hit different, and not in a good way. So, we decided to ask Spotify why they made so many changes.

Pedestrian.tv · Dec 6, 2024