Spotify Newsletter #241
Your Weekly Dose of Spotify News
★ SPOTlight
⭐️ Spotify Hosts Trump Inauguration Brunch and Makes $150,000 Donation to Ceremony
On Sunday, January 19, the day before the second inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, Spotify hosted a brunch featuring high-profile podcasters Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro, country singer Riley Green, and others, Bloomberg reports. The event, as Bloomberg reported last month, was meant to tout “the power of podcasts in this election.”
⭐️ Spotify's educational courses could be coming to US
Spotify is expanding its streaming service to now include educational courses in addition to music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The company on Tuesday referenced one of its newer features called courses, which allow users to learn about topics in areas like business, tech, lifestyle, music, and more.
⭐️ Spotify Teams Up With FanDuel For Super Bowl Pre-Game Party
The party kicks off on Friday, February 7, two days before the 2025 Super Bowl at Caesars Superdome. The location, as well as further details, will be revealed at a later date. Last year’s FanDuel and Spotify Super Bowl party was headlined by Calvin Harris and Kid Cudi at Fontainebleau in Las Vegas.
⭐️ Spotify slams 'ridiculous and unfounded' Duetti report
Music fintech company Duetti’s latest ‘Music Economics Report’ has aroused the wrath of one of the companies most prominently featured in it: Spotify.
The streaming service has slammed what it sees as “ridiculous and unfounded” claims in the report, which analysed data on music streams and royalty payouts in 2024.
⭐️ Is Taylor Swift Using Spotify To Tease ‘Reputation (TV)’? Swifties Think So
Swifties hold onto your friendship bracelets because it looks like Reputation (Taylor’s Version) *might* be coming to streaming platforms very soon. I know, I know.
Theories about Rep (TV) have clowned us more than once. However, this new clue has me — and plenty of others — convinced that the re-record is upon us, and here’s why. After scouring Taylor Swift’s Spotify, fans noticed that Reputation seemed to be missing from her discography under her artist profile. Could this be a subtle hint to a potential re-release of the iconic album? Maybe!
🗣 Podcasts
▶️ Playlists
Why Were Reputation and Debut Removed from Taylor Swift's Spotify?
Spotlistr Is a Free Web App That Turns Any List of Songs Into a Spotify Playlist
🎧 Streams
🖌 Design
💡 Tips & Tricks
🔥 News
Spotify Founder's Health Tech Startup Neko Raises $260M, Valued at $1.8 Billion
Daniel Ek Spotify Stock Sales Continue -- $433M Sold in One Year
Reinvention and evolution: Inside the design of Spotify Wrapped 2024
🎵 New Adventures
Garth Hudson, last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87.
The Old Man and the Keys: The Improvised Legacy of Garth Hudson
Garth Hudson wasn’t the most magnetic, the most handsome, or the most financially successful member of the Band—a group George Harrison, of all people, called “the best band in the history of the universe.” He didn’t sing or compose. Of the many words written about them, the fewest are devoted to him.
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