Spotify Music Headlines & Industry News
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LANDR says artificial streams flagged by Spotify across music it distributes fell 95% between the first quarter of 2025 and the second quarter of 2026, as the company adds more fraud screening before releases reach streaming services. The Montreal-based music-creation and distribution platform disclosed the figure in a September 22nd…
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Spotify is expanding Reserved beyond early concert-ticket access with setlist playlists that change after each show, personalized share cards and a dedicated in-app destination designed to keep ticket holders inside Spotify from the presale through the days after the concert. The features begin rolling out September 24th for Reserved, Spotify’s…
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Spotify is bringing independent labels into its upcoming fan-made covers and remixes product through a new licensing agreement with Merlin, expanding a generative AI project that had initially been announced with Universal Music Group. The agreement, announced August 4th, gives artists on labels covered by Merlin’s Spotify deal the option…
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Taylor Swift’s complete catalog of 58 official music videos is now available on Spotify Premium, giving the streaming service its first full Swift video archive seven months after she used Spotify and Apple Music to give “Opalite” a head start over YouTube. The catalog arrived September 16th and stretches from…
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Spotify is expanding Fresh Finds from a discovery playlist into a yearlong artist-development program that offers emerging independent musicians everything from recording time and production software to tour opportunities and six months of therapy. Called Fresh Finds Forward, the program launched September 17 and is expected to support roughly 10,000…
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Spotify has reached 300 million Premium subscribers, hitting a new scale for paid audio streaming as subscriber growth, revenue and profitability all increased during the second quarter of 2026. The company disclosed the milestone August 4th with its Q2 results. Premium subscriptions increased 9% from a year earlier, while Spotify…
