Tag: Recap

Creativity, Cocktails, and Connection at Spotify’s Cannes Lions Kickoff Event

June 19, 2023

We opened our week at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France the best way we know how: Spotlighting stellar musical performances and creating a magical atmosphere. 

After a day spent at Spotify Beach, we hosted an opening night celebration at a beautiful private villa in the center of Cannes’ La Californie district. Upon arrival, guests including Paris Hilton, Matt Kaplan, Alex Cooper, Trevor Noah, Emma Chamberlain, Amanda Gorman, Pola Gomez, Josh Richards, Auli’li Cravalho, Ashlyn Harris, and more mingled over food and drink, and grooved along to selections from the DJ duo Collyer Twins.

Creators and Fans Celebrate the Playfulness of Wrapped Around the World

December 8, 2022

a DJ playing music at a wrapped event in pakistan

In case you missed it, last week Spotify unveiled 2022 Wrapped. To toast the highly anticipated year-end toplist reveals, the unparalleled user and creator experiences, and the beloved data stories, we hosted Wrapped-themed parties in cities across the globe. This year’s Wrapped is all about self-expression and play—celebrating the two-way connections that bring millions of creators and fans together through audio each and every day. From Paris to Karachi, our events invited fans, creators, and influencers to celebrate how they listened in 2022, and encouraged them to revel in activities that highlighted their music listening personalities.

France

For its 2022 year-end retrospective, Spotify France opened the doors of its Wrapped Café, a temporary space in Paris’ 10th arrondissement. The pop-up space gave fans a new way to extend their Wrapped experience into real life. Visitors had the chance to control the venue’s playlist, get a personalized Wrapped Café t-shirt, capture the night in a photobooth with custom audio personality filters, and play Wrapped-themed arcade games.

Over the course of the four-day event, French artists and podcast creators performed at the café. Fans had the chance to enjoy performances by rapper Fresh la Peufra, singer and EQUAL ambassador Chilla, and artist Bianca Costa. Attendees also took part in a live recording of the Spotify Original history podcast Oyez, Oh Yeah with cohosts Manon Bril and Alex Ramires.

Today’s Spotify Stream On Announcements

February 22, 2021

At Stream On, we revealed how Spotify is continuing to go all in on the limitless power of audio—the opportunity and the potential it represents for Spotify, creators, and fans everywhere around the world. Today, Spotify’s library contains more than 70 million tracks, 4.5 billion playlists, and more than 2 million podcasts, made by over eight million creators—all of that is something to celebrate.

Here’s a snapshot of our news today:

During the livestream event, we revealed some new numbers demonstrating Spotify’s progress in helping more creators succeed:

  • More than $5 billion paid out to rights holders in 2020 
  • 57,000 artists represent 90 percent of monthly streams on the platform (quadrupled in just six years)
  • Over the last four years, the number of recording artists whose catalogues generated more than  $1M+ a year across recording and publishing is up over 82% to more than 800 artists.
  • The number of recording artists whose catalogues generated more than $100,000 a year is up 79% over the last four years to more than 7,500 artists.

We also showcased the current audio library and our relentless pursuit to connect creators and listeners at scale by:

  • Expanding Daily Mix: New mixes based on the artists, genres and decades you’ve been loving lately—that update every day and learn as you listen. Listeners can be on the lookout for the playlists in the months ahead. 
  • Testing Podcast Topic Search: The feature, which enables listeners to search for podcasts by theme and topic, is currently being tested in the U.S., with plans to roll out to more locations this year.

Stream On included special appearances from creators and storytellers from all over the world—both established and emerging—including J Balvin, Jemele Hill, Khalid, BLACKPINK, FINNEAS and Billie Eilish, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Ava DuVernay, Halsey, Lauv, Lous and the Yakuza, Brené Brown, Bruce Springsteen, and President Barack Obama. A special performance from Justin Bieber including a never-before-heard version of his hit “Lonely” closed out the event. 

Miss a beat? Visit Spotify.com/StreamOn to see how we plan to lead the path forward as one of the only audio-first companies in the space—and to continue empowering creators around the world using our unparalleled data, insights, and powerful platform.