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Spotify Turns A Corner With First Ever Profit

Spotify finished 2018 with 96M paying subscribers around the world, up by 25M year-on-year.

That wasn’t the biggest news in Spotify’s freshly announced financials for Q4 2018, though.

Spotify Turns A Corner With First Ever Profit

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Spotify finished 2018 with 96M paying subscribers around the world, up by 25M year-on-year.


That wasn’t the biggest news in Spotify’s freshly announced financials for Q4 2018, though.

The company posted its first ever quarterly operating profit (€94m) in the final three months of last year, driven by lower operating costs (-17% YoY). The firm, which posted a €442m net profit in the quarter – thanks to €387m of finance-related income – said that “movements in our share price in Q4 had a [positive] sizeable impact on our reported results” but that “the business would have been profitable regardless”.

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Paul Shaver
SoundExchange

Paul Shaver

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Paul Shaver Joins SoundExchange After Stepping Down From CMRRA

Shaver left his role as president of the Canadian Music Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) last week after the company was acquired from SoundExchange by SOCAN . Now he becomes senior vice president of business development at the neighbouring rights organization.

Paul Shaver has landed at SoundExchange.

The veteran Canadian music executive has begun a new chapter with the neighbouring rights organization today (Oct. 1), the same day as the end of his tenure as president of the Canadian Reproduction Rights Music Agency (CMRRA).

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