Spotify Newsletter #259
Your Weekly Dose of Spotify News
★ SPOTlight
⭐️ Spotify and Backline Partner for New Global Mental Health Resource Hub
Spotify has partnered with industry mental health nonprofit Backline to launch a global hub of mental health resources as part of their nascent Heart & Soul initiative.
Officially dubbed ‘Heart & Soul, Mental Health for Creators,’ the new partnership sees Backline and Spotify joining forces to launch their Global Mental Health Resource Hub, which aims to serve as a comprehensive support platform for industry professionals around the world.
⭐️ Spotify’s Dustee Jenkins on Working With Pop Stars and Prime Ministers
When choosing a career, it’s super important to have a core of something you love. For me, that core has been storytelling, and this love of writing and communications, debate, discussion, and dialogue. Stories can inspire us; they can instill in us a belief in something beyond ourselves.
⭐️ Music Ally South Asia Debuts in Partnership with Spotify
Supported by Spotify, the new newsletter will provide coverage of the fast-evolving music sector in India and the wider South Asia region.
⭐️ Sir Lucian Grainge’s interview with Spotify’s Alex Norström at Brilliant Minds: 5 things we learned
The conversation touched on everything from Grainge’s approach to managing creative talent, to his views on the role of AI in music creation.
⭐️ How Spotify Continues To Supercharge Brazil’s Music Industry
Brazil’s music industry is in the midst of a historic transformation—and Spotify continues to help illuminate the path.
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📢 Marketing
Why United Airlines' Partnership With Spotify Is the Best-Sounding Idea I’ve Heard Yet
A look at Leo India’s campaign with 7UP and Spotify
🖌 Design
🔥 News
Ooh la la: Miley Cyrus confirms Spotify concert in Paris on June 18
Spotify Ushers in a New Era of Moroccan Pop With 6 Artists Influencing the Scene
Addison Rae Shines Bright at Spotify’s ‘Addison’ Release Party in NYC
La Liga chief confirms when Barcelona will return to Spotify Camp Nou
🎵 New Adventures
Brian Wilson Dead: Beach Boys Co-Founder Was 82
A sensitive and ambitious talent, Wilson went on to push the boundaries of rock’s possibilities with a string of mid-’60s feats with his band: the lush and affecting 1966 song cycle “Pet Sounds,” the dazzling, complex 1966 single “Good Vibrations” and the long-mythical, tragically scrapped magnum opus “Smile.”
Sly Stone, Funk-Rock Pioneer Who Led the Family Stone, Dies at 82
As songwriter, producer, arranger, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and showman supreme, 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Stone led his group Sly and the Family Stone to the top of the charts with a series of energetic, oft-experimental singles and albums, which fused forward-looking, bottom-heavy soul with rock power.
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