Streaming & Digital
Spotify to support US grassroots venues via NIVA partnership
Spotify has inked a one-year deal with US grassroots-venues body NIVA to support its members, with plans to make them more prominent. The post is from Music Ally.
Spotify strikes deal with National Independent Venue Association to boost indie venues in the US
Throughout 2026, Spotify will boost visibility for independent venues through existing features including venue pages and its Live Events Feed. Source
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Spotify Boosts Visibility for Indie Venues On-Platform With New NIVA Partnership
As part of the collaboration, NIVA and the streaming giant will partner on a new playlist series curated by independent bookers.
BTS ‘Arirang’ album was streamed 739.1m times in first week
You don’t need us to tell you that the BTS comeback album ‘Arirang’ was a hit in its first week. But you might need Luminate’s number-crunchers to tell you exactly how big the album was in streaming terms. Thankfully, they have. “Looking at global streaming data, ‘Arirang’ earned 739.1 million On-De
Spotify and labels win (notional) $322m from Anna’s Archive
We say ‘notional’ because there is surely very little chance of getting this money. Nonetheless, Spotify and the three major labels have won a default judgement against Anna’s Archive. That’s the site that announced before Christmas that it had scraped metadata and recordings from Spotify, and was p
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India added nearly 4m paid music streaming subscriptions in 2025, taking its total to 14.4m, according to new report
However, the report found that of the 178 million people who streamed music in 2025, only about 8% were paying for it. Source
Arguments rage over Chaotic Good, Geese and ‘trend simulation’
You may or may not like Geese (the band, not the birds). Their 1.8 million Spotify listeners and plenty of critical acclaim for their 2025 album ‘Getting Killed’ suggests plenty of people do. The band have released four albums since 2018 and toured regularly, so are hardly an overnight success. So y
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Pirate site Anna’s Archive hit with $322M default judgment over music scraping — but will Spotify and record labels ever see the money?
Whether the plaintiffs will ever see the $322 million award remains unclear, as Anna’s Archive’s operators remain anonymous. Source
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Pitchfork Selects Playlist Features Kelela, Kurt Vile, and Olof Dreijer
Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat
Pitchfork Selects Playlist Features Kelela, Kurt Vile, and More
Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat
Kelela, Kurt Vile, Olof Dreijer Featured on Pitchfork Selects Playlist
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Spotify & the Major Labels Won a $322M Court Order Against Music Pirates. Will They Be Able to Collect?
At least for now, the court judgment is largely a symbolic victory, as no one has identified the anonymous internet users behind Anna’s Archive.