Spotify Wins Lawsuit Over Bundling Royalties
Spotify defeated a lawsuit from the Mechanical Licensing Collective accusing it of unfairly cutting royalty rates via its audiobooks-music 'bundle.'
Spotify wins ruling to dismiss bundles lawsuit from the MLC
Explore the legal battle between Spotify and the Mechanical Licensing Collective over the reclassification of Spotify's Premium tier.
Spotify Scores Major Legal Win in MLC Bundling Lawsuit: ‘The Only Plausible Application of the Law Supports Spotify’s Position’
Looks like Spotify’s aggressive bundling strategy is here to stay: The streaming platform has resoundingly triumphed in a related lawsuit from the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC). The presiding judge tossed that roughly eight-month-old legal action with prejudice today,
Spotify Wins Dismissal of Suit Over Reduced Royalty Payments
Spotify Technology SA won dismissal of a lawsuit alleging it made a change to its premium service that cheated songwriters out of royalties.
Spotify defeats US licensing group's lawsuit over royalties
Spotify convinced a New York federal judge on Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the streaming service of underpaying songwriting royalties for tens of millions of songs.
Spotify Beats MLC Audiobook Lawsuit After Judge Calls Federal Royalty Rules ‘Unambiguous’
Spotify won a ruling dismissing the Mechanical Licensing Collective's lawsuit alleging the streamer illegally cut royalty rates by adding audiobooks.
Spotify Wins Lawsuit Over Bundling Controversy That Lowered Payments to Songwriters
A judge dismissed the lawsuit on Wednesday, months after Spotify was sued for lowering royalties to songwriters after it introduced an audiobook bundle to its premium tier
Apple Music still pays artists twice as much as Spotify
Compared to Spotify, Apple Music is one of the better-paying platforms for artists. Here's the payment difference between the ...
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What is Spotify? Here's everything you need to know in 2025
Since replacing Google Play Music, it’s become Google’s premier music streaming service. Like Spotify, it offers a free, ad-supported tier of service. What’s great about YouTube Music is ...
Amazon follows Spotify and raises the prices of its music streaming service
Spotify recently raised its prices to $11.99, bringing what was once the most affordable streamer to a lofty price that outmatched Tidal and Apple Music's $11 per month sub. Now, not to be outdone, ...
Spotify Paid the Music Industry $10 Billion in 2024
Spotify said today that it paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry last year, bringing its total payments to over ...
Top 10 most-followed artistes on Spotify in 2025: Indian singer tops with 134.2M followers
Spotify's most-streamed artist—Billie Eilish, the youngest artist to achieve major streaming milestones—and Ariana Grande, ...
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Marketing experts share how Spotify shapes your music listening habits with playlists
It's a common assumption that music streaming has changed how we listen to music in a physical sense, but a new study has ...
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Spotify’s playlists have altered the music industry in unexpected ways
Novelty suffers, too. By one estimate nearly three-quarters of streamed songs are over 18 months old. Compared with the raucous explosion of genres that characterised popular music until the 2000s— ...
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Spotify Announces New Multiyear Deal With Universal Music Group
The new publishing agreement establishes a direct license between Spotify and Universal Music Publishing Group. By Zoe G. Phillips Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a new multiyear ...
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Spotify and Universal Unveil Far-Reaching Deal That Improves ‘Bundling’ Payment Structure
While terms of the deal were not announced, sources confirm to Variety that the deal improves at least some of the payment structure of Spotify’s controversial music-audiobooks “bundling ...