# Spotify

This year

2023

# Spotify

Spotify to cut 6% percent of workforce, around 600 employees

Spotify’s CEO described the lay offs as a ‘difficult but necessary decision’.

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Jan 23rd 2023, 1:04 PM

Last year

2022

# Your Say

Poll: Do you pay for a music streaming service?

Spotify has begun teasing the release of its annual Wrapped playlists.

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Nov 29th 2022, 8:10 AM

# tech company

Spotify acquires Dublin-based tech firm Kinzen to detect harmful content

The company was set up by Storyful founder Mark Little and ex-Facebook executive Áine Kerr.

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Oct 5th 2022, 4:16 PM

# Spotify

Spotify suffers unexplained outage as users report being logged out of streaming platform

The streaming giant has not yet confirmed the cause of the issue.

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Mar 8th 2022, 8:32 PM

# Spotify

Spotify CEO tells employees cancelling Joe Rogan ‘not the answer’

The firm paid Rogan a reported 100 million dollars to exclusively host the podcast.

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Feb 7th 2022, 9:12 AM

# Controversy

Podcaster Joe Rogan apologises for racial slur after video surfaces

Spotify is facing growing discontent from musicians over Rogan’s podcast, for which it reportedly paid more than €87 million.

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Feb 6th 2022, 3:59 PM

# joe rogan experience

Spotify boss tells staff that Joe Rogan is vital to company as stock plunges

The comments were published today as the firm’s stock went into freefall.

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Feb 3rd 2022, 9:40 PM

# Spotify

Joe Rogan pledges to ‘balance’ Spotify podcast after Covid misinformation controversy

It comes after the company’s CEO said a content advisory on podcasts discussing Covid will be rolled out in the coming days.

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Jan 31st 2022, 11:25 AM

# Your Say

Poll: Will you boycott Spotify over Covid-19 misinformation?

Neil Young has accused Spotify of “spreading fake information about vaccines — potentially causing death”.

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Jan 30th 2022, 10:14 AM

# Joe Rogan

Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in boycotting Spotify over Covid 'lies'

“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” the singer said.

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Jan 29th 2022, 2:19 PM

# hey hey my my

Spotify removing Neil Young's music after rocker's Joe Rogan ultimatum

Young has accused the streaming service of “spreading fake information about vaccines” by hosting Rogan’s podcast.

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Jan 27th 2022, 8:22 AM

All time

# The last days of Maradona

Death of Diego Maradona to be examined in new Spotify podcast series

The English language version of the series, which will be released this month, is to be hosted by Thierry Henry.

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Nov 16th 2021, 7:10 PM

# Stan your ground

Arsenal owners '100 percent committed' and not interested in selling club

Spotify founder Daniel Ek expressed interested in purchasing the Premier League club on Twitter.

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Apr 27th 2021, 7:31 PM

# Spot us a few quid?

Henry, Bergkamp and Vieira join Spotify founder’s bid to buy Arsenal – reports

Daniel Ek, 38, has reportedly made inquiries about a takeover and former players Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Patrick Vieira are all involved.

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Apr 26th 2021, 5:43 PM

# US Election

Spotify to suspend political advertising in 2020

The company said it does not have the necessary level of robustness in its systems to responsibly validate and review this content.

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Dec 27th 2019, 8:04 PM

# 10 years in music

Ariana Grande, Drake and Ed Sheeran - what most people listened to on Spotify this decade

Four of the five most streamed artists of this decade were male.

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Dec 3rd 2019, 12:19 PM

# higher ground

Obamas sign deal to produce podcasts for Spotify

The former US president and first lady have already signed a deal with Netflix to produce films, documentaries and television series.

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Jun 7th 2019, 8:14 AM

# one fab day

If you're obsessed with weddings, you might be interested in the OneFabDay podcast

All the advice you never knew you needed.

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Mar 5th 2019, 6:22 PM

# Data Breach

Facebook says it no longer lets companies like Netflix, Spotify read users' private messages

Facebook said the partnerships did allow features like “messaging integrations” but nearly all have been shut down over the past few months.

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Dec 20th 2018, 7:30 AM

# bjorn again

Spotify listens of Abba song Fernando up 52% after Ballybrack FC fake player's death

Fernando Lafuente Saiz was falsely reported dead by his club last week.

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Nov 30th 2018, 6:01 PM

# everything is love

Beyoncé and Jay-Z put their new album on Spotify after some poor fans forked out for a Tidal subscription

Bey and Jay – playing their fans since forever.

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Jun 18th 2018, 4:10 PM

# Quiz

How Well Do You Know the Most-Streamed Artists On Spotify?

This is trickier than Leaving Cert music!

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Jun 16th 2018, 8:00 PM

# sex abuse claims

Spotify drops R Kelly from all of its playlists as part of new 'hateful conduct' policy

R Kelly’s music will still be available on the platform but not on playlists curated by Spotify.

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May 10th 2018, 9:32 PM

# mute r kelly

Spotify has removed all of R. Kelly's music from its playlists

However, his music will still be available to stream on the platform.

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May 10th 2018, 4:03 PM

# streaming cash

Spotify made its debut on Wall Street and rocketed to a $30bn valuation

The company debut valuation was more than Twitter and Snapchat.

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Apr 3rd 2018, 7:52 PM

# Copyright breach

Spotify hit with €1.3 billion copyright lawsuit from Tom Petty, Neil Young publisher

Wixen Music Publishing, Inc claims Spotify failed to seek licenses for significant parts of its 30 million-song catalog.

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Jan 3rd 2018, 11:35 AM

# hey ho

Spotify is telling people they love a genre called 'Stomp and Holler', but no one knows what the hell it is

Are we ALL out of the loop? Seems so.

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Dec 6th 2017, 8:00 PM

# Quiz

Pick A Colour And We'll Give You An Artist To Listen To On Spotify

A lucky dip of tunes, if you will.

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Oct 17th 2017, 9:00 PM

# Spotify

Here's why those Spotify playlists have taken over Irish Twitter

Romance isn’t dead.

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Apr 21st 2017, 3:45 PM

# 50 shades of green

Spotify has created a Throwback Thursday playlist for Paddy's Day and it's full of Irish bangers

Finally, the world can hear some proper old school Irish cheese this week.

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Mar 16th 2017, 1:54 PM

# money maker

Two of Soundwave's founders have a new pet project – selling startups old patents

Retro Patents is a side project for the Irish men, who sold their company to Spotify last year.

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Jan 26th 2017, 6:03 PM

# one more tune

Here are the songs Irish people couldn't stop listening to on Spotify this year

Drake, Justin Bieber and Sia all feature.

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Dec 13th 2016, 8:20 PM

# one more tune

Here are the tunes Irish people couldn't stop listening to on Spotify this year

We asked Spotify for Ireland’s most listened to songs, albums and artists for 2016.

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Dec 13th 2016, 9:01 AM

# It's the end of the world

Everyone is loving these genius Spotify ads that look back on 2016

Thanks, 2016. It’s been weird.

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Dec 4th 2016, 11:55 AM

# portability

New rules will allow you to use Netflix or Spotify unrestricted across the EU

The measures were approved yesterday allowing “cross-border portability” of paid-for online content.

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Nov 30th 2016, 2:07 PM

# rock n road

The Brexit Playlist: tunes for a leavetaking

A little driving soundtrack for our friends in the UK.

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Jul 4th 2016, 3:09 PM

# gloves are off

Spotify really isn't happy with Apple's decision to reject its latest app update

Spotify has accused Apple of using its App Store rules as a “weapon to harm competitors”.

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Jul 1st 2016, 9:58 AM

# save for later

Here's how to save every new song from Spotify's best feature

Discover Weekly has more than 40 million people using it every week, and for good reason.

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May 26th 2016, 7:00 PM

# COYBIG

Niall Horan made a playlist for Spotify and rather soundly included loads of Irish music

“We always support our own.”

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May 4th 2016, 11:04 AM

# rock n road

Songs for Night Driving (that won't put you to sleep)

TheJournal.ie has your playlist sorted.

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Apr 28th 2016, 5:13 PM