If you’d told us a year ago that Oasis’s 1995 song ‘Wonderwall’ would be topping Spotify’s ‘Top 50 – Global’ chart this summer, we’d have assumed the band were playing more concerts – perhaps in Mexico, Brazil and other big-volume streaming markets.
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Lorde speaks out against Spotify’s ‘About the Song’ feature
Clearly relishing her freedom as an independent artist, Lorde has been speaking out about technology issues lately: witness her well-timed takedown of Meta’s AI glasses at a recent festival – which was sponsored by its smart-specs partner Ray-Ban..
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Erling Haaland on the top of Norway’s Spotify charts
Norwegian World Cup star Erling Haaland is dominating Norway’s Spotify charts: thanks to a decade-old teenage rap track. Following Norway’s historic World Cup 2026 quarter-final run, the Manchester City striker […]
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Spotify expands managed accounts and debuts ‘early access’ videos
With regulators around the world eyeing digital services used by children with intent, Spotify has announced an expansion of its ‘managed accounts’ for kids.
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Spotify gets more conversational with its user interface
Given everything going on around AI right now, it’s hardly a neck-sticking-out prediction to say that conversation is going to be the next big leap for the way people use music services. Spotify’s latest announcement offers more evidence.
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Report: YouTube has overtaken Spotify as Brits’ primary podcasts platform
It’s not so long since Spotify overtaking Apple was the big story in podcasting. However, Spotify is now facing its own disrupter: YouTube.
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World Cup spikes Shakira catalogue’s Spotify streams by 21.6%
Shakira is also doing well from the tournament, with her Burna Boy collaboration ‘Dai Dai’ another key track. It’s just her latest official World Cup tie-in following ‘Waka Waka’ in 2010 and ‘La La La’ in 2014.
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69% of Spotify streams in the US go to American artists
The US is the biggest recorded-music market in the world, and it’s one where domestic artists are taking a big share of streams according to Spotify. “69% of all streams […]
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Kalshi trades spark Spotify investigation into fake streams
Spotify has been forced to remove more than 500k streams of a song that topped its US chart after – in the Financial Times’ words – “discovering that the surge in streaming coincided with a jump in suspicious wagers on prediction market Kalshi”.
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Anuv Jain lands Coke Studio Bharat’s first chart-topper
It’s been a good week for Indian singer-songwriter Anuv Jain and his fans on Spotify. On Sunday, 28 June, he staged ‘Coming Home to Anuv Jain’, a special event organised […]
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Spotify’s latest Afrobeats move is a festival partnership
The deal sees Spotify become the official ‘sponsor and exclusive streaming partner’ for the three-day Afrobeats-focused festival, which takes place this weekend in Portimão, Portugal. The streaming service will launch an Afro Nation hub on its service with an official playlist and “selected performance videos after the event” according to Nigerian news outlet Business Day.
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Spotify India enters into “first-of-its-kind telco partnership” with Vi
Vi—which was created from the merger of the telecom companies Vodafone India and the Aditya Birla Group conglomerate’s Idea Cellular—has entered into a partnership with Spotify. Through the tie-up, Vi […]
