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Music Industry News 2 July 2025 - 9 November 2025

Spotify (SPOT) Today — Nov. 9, 2025: Travis Barker x Spotify 5K Hits Santa Monica, ‘Listening Stats’ Rolls Out Ahead of Wrapped, Analysts Reset Targets After Q3 Beat

Spotify (SPOT) Today — Nov. 9, 2025: Travis Barker x Spotify 5K Hits Santa Monica, ‘Listening Stats’ Rolls Out Ahead of Wrapped, Analysts Reset Targets After Q3 Beat

SPOT at a glance (as markets head into the new week) As of the latest close (U.S. markets are closed on Sunday), Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) last traded around $616.91 after a choppy earnings week. What’s happening today: Travis Barker x Spotify brings music-fueled 5K to Santa Monica Spotify’s fall race series with Travis Barker culminates today (Sun., Nov. 9) with a 5K along the Santa Monica shoreline, part of the “Run Travis Run” wellness experience. The event hub lists “3rd Street Promenade | Nov 9, 2025 | 10AM”, and Spotify’s newsroom post from July previewed Santa Monica as the series
Spotify’s Hi‑Res Lossless Streaming Is Finally Here – How It Compares to Apple Music and Amazon Music HD

Spotify Stock Skyrockets After CEO Shake-Up and Bold New Moves

Key Facts: Spotify founder Daniel Ek will step down as CEO on Jan 1, 2026 (becoming Executive Chairman) with Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström named co-CEOs reuters.com. The news briefly knocked the stock ~5% lower, after a year-to-date gain of over 60% reuters.com. In September, Spotify raised its Premium price to €11.99 (from €10.99) in many markets – a change that sent shares up ~8% on the announcement ts2.tech. Subscriber counts remain high: in Q1 2025 premium members were up 12% to 268 million, with ~678 million monthly active users reuters.com. New initiatives include a “Lossless” hi-fi audio tier launched
AI-Generated Music Is Exploding in 2025 – Inside the Revolution Shaking the Music Industry

AI-Generated Music Is Exploding in 2025 – Inside the Revolution Shaking the Music Industry

A viral AI deepfake song titled “Heart on My Sleeve” mimicked Drake and The Weeknd and racked up millions of streams before Universal Music Group demanded its removal. In June 2024, the RIAA and the Big Three labels (UMG, Sony, Warner) sued Suno and Udio for alleged en masse copyright infringement, seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work. Google opened public access to MusicLM via its AI Test Kitchen in mid-2023, and MusicLM was trained on about 280,000 hours of music. Meta released MusicGen under the Audiocraft project in 2023, trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music and able to
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