Kendrick Lamar is kicking of 2025 with a bang. The rapper's monumental hit, "Not Like Us," has officially surpassed one billion Spotify streams. Lamar's anthemic track, released in May 2024, marked the end of the highly publicized feud between himself and Drake and became a longstanding hit,

Its great strengths are its interviews with Spotify employees, use of internal Slack messages, and bringing into English for the first time details from a number of early Swedish articles about the company.

That doesn’t mean everything Grammy-related is happening as normal, though: Spotify announced they have canceled their 2025 Grammy events. In a post shared on Spotify’s website yesterday (January 16), Joe Hadley, Spotify’s global head of music partnerships and audience, wrote:

The summer single, one of several to come from a feud with fellow rapper Drake, was one of the biggest songs of 2024, hitting the top of Billboard’s Hot 100.

It's a common assumption that music streaming has changed how we listen to music in a physical sense, but a new study has revealed just how streaming has impacted consumers' listening tastes. The research,

Ariana Grande has surpassed Taylor Swift for the most monthly listeners on Spotify for a female artist, with 123,700,287 listeners.

Drake will not continue legal action against Spotify and Universal Music Group following his public spat with Kendrick Lamar. The Canadian rapper sued the music streamer and the record label last year, accusing them of scheming with each other to uplift one of Lamar's songs over his.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's January 2025 inauguration program featured the country music star scheduled to sing "America the Beautiful."

Daniel Ek is cranking up the volume at Spotify Technology . Two years ago, the U.S.-listed music streamer faced heat from activist investor ValueAct Capital Management and was mired in job cuts and losses.

Spotify’s growth stems from cost-cutting and podcast expansion. Read why SPOT stock is a 'Hold' amid operational leverage limits and video competition.

As previously reported, Wolfe Research analyst Devin Brisco downgraded Spotify (SPOT) to Peer Perform from Outperform and removed the firm’s

Drake has withdrawn a legal action accusing Universal Music Group and Spotify of artificially inflating Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us."