Spotify, Mum On Funding, Announces 20M Paying Users, 75M Overall, Touts $3B Paid Out To Artists

Streaming music service Spotify is not confirming the reports today about its latest funding round, but it’s putting out some of its own news: the company today announced that it now has 20 million paying users, and 75 million overall.It also updated its numbers revealing how much it’s paying out to artists from streams on its Read More …

Universal Music Appears to Be off the Hook in States’ Probe of Streaming Services 

The world’s largest music company apparently is no longer a target of an ongoing antitrust probe of the streaming music business. The New York State’s attorney general posted a letter from Universal Music Group attesting that it isn’t doing anything illegal to block consumers’ access to free music streaming services, a sign that the label proved to Read More …