Music Business News: Sweden News Spotify is introducing comments to its podcasts. Are music tracks next?Spotify could follow YouTube, SoundCloud and China's streaming services in upping interactivity on its platform News Amuse launches ‘Stream Check’ feature to let artists know if their music is being used in streaming fraudArtists may be unaware that their music is the target of streaming fraud until it's pulled down from DSPs News There are 8bn user-curated playlists on Spotify, 725m created this year alone, Daniel Ek saysThe streaming service has been working to make playlisting a more attractive feature for its subscribers News 25% of music producers are now using AI, survey says – but a majority shows strong resistanceA majority of producers indicated they have concerns about losing control of their music. Analysis News Record companies tell MBW: Nope, the industry isn’t losing paying subscribers in SwedenRecord companies left bemused by YouGov findings, as MBW reveals their internal data in key market Analysis News From the majors’ AI lawsuit to Believe’s big acquisition plans… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days… News Joakim Johansson promoted to President, Nordics at Universal Music Central EuropeUMG credits Johansson with Universal Music Sweden's reclamation of its position as market leader in the country Analysis A warning sign? Sweden has fewer paying music subscribers than it did 2 years ago, according to YouGov survey.New report suggests that Swedish consumers are potentially becoming more price-sensitive for streaming music1 2 … 65 Next
News Spotify is introducing comments to its podcasts. Are music tracks next?Spotify could follow YouTube, SoundCloud and China's streaming services in upping interactivity on its platform
News Amuse launches ‘Stream Check’ feature to let artists know if their music is being used in streaming fraudArtists may be unaware that their music is the target of streaming fraud until it's pulled down from DSPs
News There are 8bn user-curated playlists on Spotify, 725m created this year alone, Daniel Ek saysThe streaming service has been working to make playlisting a more attractive feature for its subscribers
News 25% of music producers are now using AI, survey says – but a majority shows strong resistanceA majority of producers indicated they have concerns about losing control of their music.
Analysis News Record companies tell MBW: Nope, the industry isn’t losing paying subscribers in SwedenRecord companies left bemused by YouGov findings, as MBW reveals their internal data in key market
Analysis News From the majors’ AI lawsuit to Believe’s big acquisition plans… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News Joakim Johansson promoted to President, Nordics at Universal Music Central EuropeUMG credits Johansson with Universal Music Sweden's reclamation of its position as market leader in the country
Analysis A warning sign? Sweden has fewer paying music subscribers than it did 2 years ago, according to YouGov survey.New report suggests that Swedish consumers are potentially becoming more price-sensitive for streaming music