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Joni Mitchell is back on Spotify, returning her music to the platform more than two years after it was pulled. Mitchell boycotted Spotify as a protest against some of its content. She was following the lead of Neil Young, who removed his catalog to protest the company's decision to give podcast host…

Neil Young is ending his two-year Spotify boycott. The celebrated singer is returning his music to the audio giant after Joe Rogan signed a $250m deal to make his podcast available on multiple platforms, rather than remaining a Spotify exclusive. Young withdrew his music from Spotify in January…

UPDATED with Spotify reaction: Spotify said the EU’s move to fine Apple €1.8 billion ($1.95 billion) for breaking antitrust rules in Europe over music streaming “sends a powerful message—no company, not even a monopoly like Apple, can wield power abusively to control how other companies interact with…

Moonbug Entertainment, the CoComelon producer owned by Candle Media, has appointed Courtney Holt as the company's first Global Head of Music and Strategic Audio Initiatives. Holt will oversee Moonbug's music label via alliances with partners and strengthened ties with established and emerging…

Spotify’s losses narrowed and sales rose with user and subscribers additions beating expectations in a strong fourth quarter. The company has shed staff and others costs and sees "revenue and profitability trends both inflecting favorably heading into 2024." The stock is up more than 6% in pre-market…

Spotify has reached a multi-year extension with top podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, securing an important talent relationship but also shifting to a non-exclusive distribution plan for the show. Rogan’s podcast will stream on Spotify, but also will also be available on Apple, Amazon and YouTube…

Call Her Daddy, Alex Cooper’s podcast about relationships, sex and more, has long been one of Spotify’s most popular offerings. It ranked No. 2 on the service’s end-of-year Top Podcasts list in 2023, behind only Joe Rogan. And now the show is set to reach an even wider audience. Starting with…

First thing's first: Happy birthday, Taylor Swift! Closing out a year that has seen the now 34-year-old superstar score nothing but touchdowns, the shindig beau Travis Kelce has planned Wednesday night in New York City promises to be quite the celebration. And well it should be. With a…

Spotify said chief financial officer Paul Vogel will be leaving at the end of March. The news comes several days after the music streamer announced about 1,500 layoffs, some 17% of its workforce. The company has launched an external search for his successor but in the interim, Ben Kung, VP Financial…

Music streaming service Spotify will cut about 17% of its global workforce, becoming the latest big tech company to feel the bite of the economy. The figure represents around 1,500 of the Sweden-based streamer’s 9,000 staff, as is the result of economic growth slowing “dramatically,” according to…

For Taylor Swift, 2023 was indeed a very good year. Spotify is reporting that Swift is the platform's most-streamed artist of the year, an honor that will earn her more than $100 million. That will grow when revenue from publishing is added. That’s in addition to Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour…

Taylor Swift is celebrating her newfound status as Spotify’s Global Top Artist with a surprise of her own: The massively popular singer-songwriter has just officially released the previously hard-to-find fan favorite song “You’re Losing Me.” The song, now widely available on streaming services, is…