Its great strengths are its interviews with Spotify employees, use of internal Slack messages, and bringing into English for the first time details from a number of early Swedish articles about the company.

The feature allows users to share their tombstones on social media to bond, brag, or cope with the amount of time they spend on the app. Similar to the annual Spotify Wrapped, TikTok Graveyard uses data to share self-reflective facts,

As a lover and consumer of music, this for many years has felt to me like a godsend. I am aware it actively hurts the musicians but as a fan, it’s amazing that I can play Spotify each month and listen to Led Zeppelin’s back catalogue,

Ariana Grande has surpassed Taylor Swift for the most monthly listeners on Spotify for a female artist, with 123,700,287 listeners.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's January 2025 inauguration program featured the country music star scheduled to sing "America the Beautiful."

Spotify has canceled its Grammy week events in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires, including its annual Best New Artist party and its 2025 Songwriter of the Year party. In a newsroom post on Spotify’s website,

Daniel Ek is cranking up the volume at Spotify Technology . Two years ago, the U.S.-listed music streamer faced heat from activist investor ValueAct Capital Management and was mired in job cuts and losses.

Drake will not continue legal action against Spotify and Universal Music Group following his public spat with Kendrick Lamar. The Canadian rapper sued the music streamer and the record label last year, accusing them of scheming with each other to uplift one of Lamar's songs over his.

That doesn’t mean everything Grammy-related is happening as normal, though: Spotify announced they have canceled their 2025 Grammy events. In a post shared on Spotify’s website yesterday (January 16), Joe Hadley, Spotify’s global head of music partnerships and audience, wrote:

Spotify’s growth stems from cost-cutting and podcast expansion. Read why SPOT stock is a 'Hold' amid operational leverage limits and video competition.

Though Spotify is still music streaming’s resident behemoth with 626 million users, last month’s Wrapped, often a marketing boon for the company, was more muted than ever. Users expressed sharp disappointment with the lack of data specificity they were accustomed to getting in the past.

The summer single, one of several to come from a feud with fellow rapper Drake, was one of the biggest songs of 2024, hitting the top of Billboard’s Hot 100.