Spotify outlines its next AI-driven shift, from agentic music tools to Prompted Playlists. Here’s what it means for users and artists.

There’s a new business model in town — now devoted followers are participating directly with their heroes, writes Chris ...

August Ponthier. Brent Faiyaz. Jill Scott's first album in more than a decade. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is joined by ...

Anna's Archive, a site that serves as a shadow library for pirated content, has reportedly begun to quietly release millions of audio files scraped from Spotify. Anna's Archive made this move despite ...

The European Commission has given its final stamp of approval for Universal Music Group’s $775 million acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings, concluding a two‑phase review that focused on competition ...

The Commission on Friday accepted UMG's proposal for divestment of Downtown's royalty accounting platform, Curve ...

Universal Music Group secured EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of Downtown Music on Friday after agreeing to sell the latter's royalty services platform to address competition concerns.

The global market share of the three major music companies and Merlin on Spotify is in decline. Well, no more.

The shadow library Anna's Archive is publishing millions of Spotify tracks – despite a temporary injunction. More files could follow.

Spotify's CEOs just laid out a compelling growth story.

Spotify has exhausted its pricing power just as its core Gen Z demographic faces peak economic insolvency. See why I rate ...