It’s been one year since we launched Audiobooks for Spotify Premium users and it’s been really cool to watch the excitement from both listeners and authors grow. A few things to share: 💰 We’ve already paid hundreds of millions to publishers, and are excited about the all the new opportunities now available to authors. 📚 Our catalog has doubled to 300,000 titles. We know that our listeners are loving bestsellers, but they are also very excited to be discovering backlist titles too. 👂 Over 58% of audiobook listeners are 18-34 years old. 🌍 We’ve just expanded into non-English markets for the first time, including France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. (This is brand new, so check it out if you live in one of these markets!) There’s still more to come as we’re continuously testing new features and ideas. Can’t wait to share more with you soon.

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The Amapiano genre has seen a crazy explosion over the last decade coming out of South Africa. In 2023 alone, the genre had 1.4 billion streams on Spotify - with 55% of that being played in markets outside of Africa. Very cool to see it taking the global stage! Check out more here - newsroom.spotify.com/amapian…

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Welcome @ChristianLuiga!

Loud&Clear is back louder. The big picture? "Streaming has continued to create more room for more artists to find success, demonstrating real change across the business." Highlights below ⤵️ Check out the full report loudandclear.byspotify.com

Taxe streaming et augmentation des prix, on vous explique notre décision :

Tax and consequences. Why we're unfortunately announcing that we'll soon have to raise our prices in France only, over the new tax on music streaming services.

The @EU_Commission decided Apple's policies against music streaming services are illegal. Here are our thoughts: spoti.fi/3wEYZXg

The European Commission Confirms, Apple’s Anti-Competitive Behavior Is Illegal and Harms Consumers newsroom.spotify.com/2024-03…

Not "just" half the revenues generated on Spotify in 2023, but "the highest amount indies have ever generated from a single retailer in one year" ⭐️ #spotify #spotifyloudandclear

I had the pleasure of finally being back in Norway speaking at the annual @NHO_no conference today, where I shared the journey behind Spotify, the importance of always keeping an entrepreneurial mindset and the huge opportunities I see to build in Europe. Thank you Oslo! 🙏🏻

The nominations are in! Meet the #BestNewArtist class of 2024. ✨Congratulations on your biggest year yet. spotify.link/BestNewArtist

Truly stellar quarter. Improving step by step. Thanks to all Spotify teams around the world.

Bringing AI DJ to life was a big team effort. It's so cool to see it selected as one of @TIME’s best inventions of 2023 👏🏻 time.com/collection/best-inv…

If Spotify were starting today, it might not succeed. Why? Because of Apple's innovation barriers, says @eldsjal. Learn more: spoti.fi/46EIwzc

Great to see my Duolingo Spanish lessons paying off! 😂 Only kidding – it’s is the magic of the new AI voice translation feature we’re piloting for podcasters on Spotify! This was me recently with @StevenBartlett. spoti.fi/3RW6HVh Spanish speakers - would love to hear your thoughts.

To all the songwriters who make these amazing beats, lyrics, and melodies that we all enjoy - we’ve updated our songwriting hub on Spotify For Artists. We have added lots of tools and resources. Hope this is helpful ... Let me know what you think! artists.spotify.com/songwrit…

Thanks to the Spotify team for another strong quarter and for powering our remarkable growth: 118M MAU and 32M subs over the last twelve months. Encouraging to see this progress against what we laid out in June 2022 at Investor Day.