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Justin Bieber is now the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify, with his catalog enjoying a huge surge since headlining Coachella
Interscope Records quietly dropped D4vd last year, and UMG has helped some artists remove their songs with the singer from streaming platforms
To mark its 20th anniversary, Spotify has named the top 20 most streamed artists, albums, and songs of all time
9lives and SXMPRA both have over 1 billion streams to their name. Their achievement should offer encouragement to other Aotearoa musicians.
Bad Bunny staged his first-ever concert in Asia on Saturday, delivering a hits-filled set at Japan's Tipstar Dome Chiba for Spotify's Billions Club
Spotify Wrapped experienced its biggest launch ever this year, a major win after 2024's messy data dump
Bad Bunny is the year's most-streamed artist on Spotify, with the most-streamed album of 2025, 'Debi Tirar Más Fotos'
Kelly Clarkson's 'Since U Been Gone' from her 2004 album 'Breakaway' becomes her first song to reach one billion streams on Spotify
A class action lawsuit accuses Spotify of engaging in "payola" to allow record labels to secretly promote their artists in Discovery Mode playlists
New class action lawsuit accuses Spotify of turning “a blind eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming” that allegedly helped Drake but harmed others
