Spotify recorded its strongest first-quarter results since going public in 2018 in Q1 2023. As of March 31st, the streaming giant announced that its monthly active users grew to 515 million, a 22 per cent increase year-over-year. The company’s user base grew by 26 million, …
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Spotify Replaces Heart Icon with ‘New and Improved’ Plus Button
Spotify is retiring the heart icon that lets you save songs and add them to your playlist. In a blog post on Monday, the music streaming giant announced that it is “consolidating the heart icon and the Add to playlist” into one symbol – the …
Spotify Surges Past 200M Paid Subscribers Despite Mounting Losses
Spotify announced its Q4 2022 earnings today, revealing that it now has 205 million paid subscribers, which is a 14 per cent increase year-on-year. The audio streaming company now has 489 million monthly active users (MAUs), representing a 20 per cent increase year-on-year. Despite the …
Spotify Updates Blend with Up to 10 People and Artists
Spotify’s blended playlist is now better than ever. Last year, the audio streaming giant introduced Blend, a feature that automatically creates a shared playlist of two friends or family members into a single playlist based on the platform’s personalization capabilities. A blended playlist can now …
Spotify Launches Clubhouse-like app, Greenroom
The success of Clubhouse meant it was only a matter of time before we started seeing rival apps. Twitter and Facebook have already come up with their own similar live-audio social network, today Spotify has announced the launch of its own similar service called Greenroom. …
Spotify Adds Offline Music Downloads on Apple Watch
Spotify announced on Friday it was rolling out the ability for Premium users to download playlists, albums and podcasts on Apple Watch. Users with Apple Watch Series 3 or later, or with watchOS 6.0+ (7.1+ recommended) will be able to enjoy this feature. “We’re rolling …
Spotify Officially Launches in Nigeria on Google Play and Apple App Store
Yesterday, Spotify announced it is expanding into more than 80 new markets spread across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America. The audio streaming app officially made its debut today on the Nigerian Google Play and Apple App Stores. Android users can download it …
Spotify Expanding to 85 New Markets Including Nigeria and Ghana
Spotify’s quest for world domination gathered momentum today as the audio streaming giant announced what will be its biggest market expansion to date. Spotify is launching in more than 80 new countries around the world which means its audio streaming service will be reaching an …
Spotify Now Has 155 Million Premium Subscribers
Music streaming giant, Spotify blazed past 150 million premium subscribers in its Q4 2020 earnings report. The company now has 155 million subscribers and 345 million monthly active users, a 24 per cent and 27 per cent increase respectively year-over-year. Last quarter, the company reported …
Spotify to Acquire Podcast Hosting and Ad Company Megaphone for $235M
Spotify today announced it is acquiring podcast hosting and ad company, Megaphone in a deal reported to be worth $235M. The deal is targeted at the company’s ad services since Spotify already had an existing partnership in place with Megaphone which included making use of …
Spotify Now Has 320M Monthly Active Users Globally After Successfully Launching in Russia
Music streaming service Spotify revealed in its third-quarter 2020 earnings it now has 320 million monthly active users and 144 million paid subscribers globally, a 29 and 27 percent increase respectively from the same period a year ago. According to TheVerge, successful marketing campaigns in …
Spotify Adds Video Podcasts Support on Free and Premium Plans
Spotify is adding video support for its podcasts, the company announced on Tuesday. Listeners who enjoy podcasts from their favourite creators will now have the opportunity to see them. The new video podcast feature will only be available on select podcasts for now in all …
Spotify Launches Real-Time Lyrics in 26 Countries
Music streaming giant Spotify is launching real-time lyrics in 26 markets in the world across Southeast Asia, India and Latin America, according to TechCrunch. Spotify began testing the feature in select markets last year November and some Twitter users reported seeing real-time lyrics this February. …
Spotify Rolling Out Real-time Lyrics to Songs on Its Platform
Music streaming platform Spotify is finally rolling out real-time lyrics when listening to songs on its platform. The feature has been available on Apple Music for a long time where listeners have the option to read along lyrics to any song they are playing. This …
Jay Z Makes a Return to Spotify after a 2 Year Hiatus
Popularly acclaimed as one of the greatest rappers of all time, Shawn Corey Carter who goes under the Pseudonym Jay Z has made a return to music streaming service Spotify on his 50th birthday. In a tweet, Spotify wrote, “Happy birthday Hov, Welcome back to …
Siri Will Soon Let You Play Music from Spotify
Spotify and Apple Music are no doubt two of the biggest music streaming platform in the world with both boasting millions of subscribers. Swedish app Spotify currently has 232 million monthly active users and 108 million premium subscribers. On the other hand, Apple music reported …