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Can Spotify Ever Meet Investors’ Expectations?

Mark Mulligan

1 Nov 2018

Netflix

Record labels

Spotify

Spotify just posted another solid set of results, adding four million subscribers and beating profit and revenue estimates, yet its share price fell. What’s going on? Spotify is on track for where it...

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Spotify’s New Rules of Engagement

Mark Mulligan

12 Jun 2018

investors

Spotify

spotify as a label

It is easy to feel that the pervasive obsession with Spotify overplays its importance to the recorded music industry. On the one hand it may only represent 27% of global recorded music revenues, but this...

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Four Companies That Could Buy Spotify

Mark Mulligan

15 Feb 2017

21st Century Fox

Alibaba

amc theatres

For much of 2016 it looked nailed on that Spotify would IPO in 2017 and that the recorded music industry would move onto its next chapter, for better or for worse. The terms of Spotify’s $1 billion debt...

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