Spotify Newsletter #239

Your Weekly Dose of Spotify News

Jan 10, 2025

⭐️ How Spotify and The Weeknd Came Together to Usher in a New Era for the Streaming Platform

“What a beautiful and unforgettable experience as an artist,” The Weeknd says in voiceover early into his new Spotify exclusive concert film.

Billions Club Live with The Weeknd: A Concert Film is the first for the streaming platform. Released natively on the streaming platform first, the over 45-minute film chronicles the artist’s December Billions Club Live show. The inaugural live event invited a crop of The Weeknd’s top listeners to an airplane hangar at Santa Monica airport for a one-night, exclusive concert that featured his Billions Club songs including “Can’t Feel My Face,” “The Hills,” “Earned It,” “I Feel It Coming” and “Save Your Tears.”

⭐️ PlaylistSupply Gets Ready for a Big Year with Expanded Services, New Artist Tools, Partnerships

Built as an all-in-one solution for playlist research and promotion, the PlaylistSupply platform helps artists and their teams find relevant playlists faster, making the whole process more efficient.

⭐️ Car Thing may be dead but Spotify’s in-car ambitions live on

One of the announcements coming out of this week’s CES show in Las Vegas provides the latest example of that. It concerns a partnership between Spotify and Sony Honda Mobility – the latter being a joint venture between Sony Group Corporation and Honda to make electric vehicles.