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Spotify

It’s going to take a lot more than Neil Young to change Spotify’s mind about Joe Rogan

By Peter Kafka

One Good Thing: The only Christmas music playlist you’ll ever need is (almost) 8 days long

By Emily St. James

Spotify Wrapped, unwrapped

By Kelly Pau

One Good Thing: Kacey Musgraves’s latest album is her messiest — and maybe her best

By Emily St. James

Apple’s antitrust problems in Europe just went from bad to worse

By Sara Morrison

Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse — and podcasts — with a suite of new audio products

By Peter Kafka

Why Spotify wants to work with Joe Rogan, Barack Obama, and … you

By Peter Kafka

All eyes turn to Apple as antitrust investigations heat up

By Sara Morrison

Spotify is hiring Joe Rogan, one of the world’s most popular and controversial podcasters

By Peter Kafka

The man who tried to disrupt Wall Street’s stranglehold on Silicon Valley is retiring

By Theodore Schleifer

Apple is under scrutiny for squashing competitors on the App Store — again

By Emily Stewart

Apple has sold lots of music subscriptions — so it thinks it will sell lots of other stuff, too

By Peter Kafka

Money-losing companies that went public in 2018 did better than profitable ones

By Rani Molla

Spotify is asking European regulators to help it fight Apple — just before Apple launches a big new subscription service

By Peter Kafka

Spotify and Warner Music are fighting, so Spotify users in India can’t listen to Cardi B or Ed Sheeran

By Peter Kafka

Full Q&A: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber explain why they sold Gimlet to Spotify

By Eric Johnson

Spotify has bought two podcast startups and it wants to buy more

By Peter Kafka

Full Q&A: Axios business editor Dan Primack on newsletters, IPOs, and the economy in 2019

By Eric Johnson

Airbnb and Slack are considering untraditional IPOs that box out bankers like Spotify did

By Theodore Schleifer

Spotify is removing some Alex Jones podcasts — but not all of them — because they are ‘hate content’

By Kurt Wagner

Spotify tried to reinvent the IPO. But two quarters later, things look ... normal?

By Theodore Schleifer

Full transcript: The Verge’s Casey Newton and Recode’s Peter Kafka on Too Embarrassed to Ask

By Recode Staff

You can listen to the new Beyonce and Jay-Z album on Spotify and Apple Music now

By Peter Kafka

Watch MSNBC and Recode’s latest ‘Revolution’ TV special

By Meghann Farnsworth

Spotify is starting to compete with the music labels by signing direct deals with music acts

By Peter Kafka

Code 2018: When will Silicon Valley take responsibility for its products?

By Eric Johnson

Full video and transcript: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek at Code 2018

By Recode Staff

The three reasons Spotify did a rare direct stock listing, according to CEO Daniel Ek

By Dan Frommer

Wall Street doesn’t like Spotify’s first-ever earnings report

By Peter Kafka

Here’s what to expect from Spotify’s first-ever earnings report

By Peter Kafka

Spotify wants more paid subscribers, so it’s giving away more music for free

By Peter Kafka

Amazon Prime has 100 million-plus Prime memberships — here’s how HBO, Netflix and Tinder compare

By Rani Molla

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is coming to the Code Conference

By Peter Kafka

Full transcript: Recode’s Teddy Schleifer and Kurt Wagner on Too Embarrassed to Ask

By Recode Staff

This week on Too Embarrassed to Ask: The YouTube shooting, Spotify’s IPO and a Facebook-Cambridge Analytica update

By Eric Johnson

This is who benefits most from the Spotify IPO

By Theodore Schleifer

At $27 billion, Spotify is the seventh-most-valuable internet company to go public in the U.S.

By Rani Molla

Spotify’s first day of trading ended up being surprisingly normal — and that’s a win for the direct listing

By Theodore Schleifer and Rani Molla

Spotify relies on the big labels for most of its music. It thinks that will change.

By Peter Kafka

Spotify’s direct listing is an inflection point in the Wall Street-Silicon Valley relationship

By Theodore Schleifer