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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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The 16-track record is born from the acclaimed indie folk artist going through major life changes involving love, grief, and adulthood.

After more than six years, Phoebe Bridgers is back with her highly anticipated third studio album, Lost Weekend, released through Dead Oceans.

Last seen performing with indie rock supergroup boygenius alongside her best friends and fellow musicians Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, fans have been waiting for Bridgers to return to solo music and follow up her sophomore album, Punisher, released in 2020.

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