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7 October 2008; 15 years ago. ( 2008-10-07) Spotify ( / ˈspɒtɪfaɪ /; Swedish: [ˈspɔ̂tːɪfaj]) is a Swedish [6] audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. [7]
Julie McNamara, one of Spotify’s top podcast content execs, is leaving the company, Variety has confirmed. McNamara, who joined the company in 2021, most recently served as VP and global head of ...
Since 2012, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny a record three times, with Bad Bunny being the only artist to do so in consecutive years (2020–2022). Swift is the only female artist to have topped the list (2023).
Daniel Ek (born 21 February 1983) is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and technologist, and the co-founder and CEO of music streaming service Spotify. [2] As of January 2024, his net worth was estimated at $3.6 billion by Forbes. [3]
Spotify’s $1 billion bet on podcasting has had mixed results, but recent moves to make the division profitable appear to have been the final straw for the person responsible for its once-vaunted ...
Entrepreneur. Known for. Co-founder of Tradedoubler and Spotify. Board member of. Spotify. Sven Hans Martin Lorentzon ( pronounced [ˈmǎʈːɪn ˈlôːrɛnˌsɔn]; born 1 April 1969) is a Swedish entrepreneur and co-founder of Tradedoubler and Spotify. [1] From 2013 to 2018 he was on the board of Telia Company. Since April 2019, he has been an ...
Spotify's most-streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 631 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, 79 have surpassed two billion, and nine have surpassed three billion. "Blinding Lights" by the Weeknd is the only song that has surpassed the four ...
Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2006 launch, mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.