Spotify and Kobalt have signed a direct and multi-year licensing agreement in the United States. The agreement will expand ...

It may take a long time for Spotify to win back the trust of some of the biggest songwriters in the world, but it seems like ...

This partnership is a step in the right direction, and we look forward to continuing to work with Spotify to increase the ...

Months after inking direct deals with UMPG and Warner Chappell, Spotify has unveiled a multiyear licensing agreement with ...

The agreement marks Spotify’s latest direct deal with a prominent music publisher and moves its agreement with Kobalt beyond ...

Spotify's new direct licensing deal with Kobalt could boost songwriter royalties, following similar agreements with Universal Music and Warner Music.

“We’ve always believed that better partnerships lead to better outcomes,” said Alex Norström, co-president & chief business ...

In a May 2020 complaint, Spotify said it had signed a licensing deal with Kobalt for the songs at issue, meaning any liability stemming their use was really Kobalt’s problem to deal with: “It ...

Kobalt collects royalty money directly from services such as Spotify, iTunes, YouTube and dozens of collection societies, cutting out the middlemen in many cases, and claiming to earn clients, on ...

By comparison, Kobalt writers' earnings over the two previous quarters showed European iTunes publishing income 32% higher than that for Spotify in Q3 2013, with the gap shrinking to 8% in Q4 2013.

As Spotify gained rapid adoption in his native Sweden in 2006, Kobalt’s founder & CEO Willard Ahdritz predicted music streaming and the rise of social media would increasingly undercut the ...