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Artists protested, AI flooded the ecosystem, and users bristled at the changes. Spotify made it through 2025 anyway, maintaining its status as a music streaming giant
Debí Tirar Más Fotos was the biggest album, and Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” was the most-streamed song
‘Raanjhan’ by Sachet-Parampara, from Bollywood film ‘Do Patti’ is the top streamed song in India on Spotify in 2025, while Pritam and Shreya Ghoshal are the second and third-most streamed artists in India
The single from the singer’s 2004 album Breakaway marks her first to reach the milestone
New offerings include lossless streaming in the Premium Platinum plan, priced at ₹299 per month
A new class action lawsuit accuses the streaming platform of turning “a blind eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming”
Ek will focus primarily on issues shaping Spotify’s future, with the two new co-CEOs reporting directly to him
The streaming service will share a weekly ranked chart of pre-saved albums and EPs starting this week
Even as it welcomes AI-generated music, the streaming giant reveals it removed 75 million “spammy” AI tracks in the last 12 months
King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard, Xiu Xiu, and Deerhoof are among the acts who have pulled their music over Daniel Ek's work with the German defense company, Helsing
