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Spotify allows users to add local audio files for music not in its catalog into the user's library through Spotify's desktop application, and then allows users to synchronize those music files to Spotify's mobile apps or other computers over the same Wi-Fi network as the primary computer by creating a Spotify playlist, and adding those local ...
South Korean boy band BTS is the most-streamed group in Spotify's history. [1] The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of February 2024, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist, [2] and Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history.
In October 2016, Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon announced he would be stepping down as chairman and Ek would be taking over alongside his role as CEO. [13] [6] As of April 2019, Spotify has 217 million active users [14] and as of June 2017 had raised over $2.5 billion in venture funding. [15]
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 887 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 141 have surpassed two billion, 18 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.
Spotify Sven Hans Martin Lorentzon ( pronounced [ˈmǎʈːɪn ˈlôːrɛnˌsɔn] ; born 1 April 1969) is a Swedish entrepreneur and co-founder of Tradedoubler and Spotify . [ 1 ] From 2013 to 2018 he was on the board of Telia Company .
The latter is also the most-attended tour in history and the first by a group to surpass $1 billion. [375] In 2024, Coldplay became the 21st century's most played band in the United Kingdom and the first to reach 90 million monthly listeners on Spotify. [376]
Spotify has routinely pushed back against allegations of creating "fake artists" for the sake of listing their music on playlists. [4] With regard to PFC, they have cited user demand for background music and have denied their intention to scale up anonymously created tracks to supplant real musicians. [2]
Taylor Swift has made Spotify history with her new release “The Tortured Poets Department,” becoming the first album to exceed 200 million streams in a single day, Variety can exclusively reveal.