Hello and welcome to the latest Spotify Newsletter. I’m actually out of town this week and wasn’t planning on any long write-up …. but then we have Spotify’s investor day presentation in New York on Wednesday, plus this Spotify Pie thing currently shaking the internet, so I figured I should chime in!

With Spotify Wrapped still six months away, it’s clear folks need something to help ease the data withdrawal as they await the breakdown of their year in music streaming. Enter: Spotify Pie.

Spotify Pie analyzes your Spotify listening and organizes it into a highly sharable pie chart of all the genres you've listened to in the last month.

The website was created by UCLA student Darren Huang and the clever tagline reads, "Bake your monthly genre pie."

I’m not exactly jumping out of my beach chair to do it, but if someone has baked their own Spotify Pie please let me know your thoughts.

As far as the investor news… Spotify expects to reach $100 billion in revenue in 10 years.

That’s bold. That’s big. I like it!

"Spotify will put out these pretty audacious targets and we are going after these because that's how we see the world and we are going to invest behind that," Ek said.

Until next week….

★In the SPOTlight★

🔥 Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone Lead Spotify’s Cannes Lions Lineup

Spotify has revealed its performance and panel lineup for this year’s Cannes Lions Festival, taking place Monday, June 20 to Thursday, June 23.

Back for an encore is Spotify Beach, which will make its home on the Croisette daily from dusk till dawn.

🔥 Spotify expects to reach $100 billion in revenue in 10 years

To reach its ambitious goal, Spotify would need to make its revenue grow nearly 10-fold from 2021 revenue of $11.4 billion, and Chief Executive Daniel Ek also forecast gross margins to jump to 40% and operating margin to 20% in the same time.

🔥 Spotify Podcasters Are Making $18,000 a Month With Nothing But White Noise

Some of the audio app's biggest podcast hits are full of soothing static and calming sounds.

🔥 Spotify wants to beat YouTube at audio

Why the company went on a shopping spree.

🔥 22 apps designers can’t live without

“It sounds funny but my go-to app is really just Spotify currently. I can work from anywhere at this point, and I can work both digitally or even with raw essentials—paper and pencil are easily accessible anywhere. The only thing I can’t work without is my music library!”

🔥 Spotify’s ‘Fan Support’ links have racked up 50m clicks

Spotify says that around 90% of those artists are using the feature to raise money from fans via the links placed in their profiles on the service.

🗣 Podcast Action 🗣

Spotify Reveals Podcast Revenue Figures for 2021

Spotify Names New Leader to Strategize Creator Growth

🎧 The Playlist List 🎧

Meet the Texas woman behind one of Spotify's most-popular Tejano playlists

Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ Hits 1 Billion Streams on Spotify

🖌 Design Notes 🖌

Spotify: UX Research case study

💰 Spotify Stock 💰

Buy Spotify as the music subscription service is in better shape than Netflix, Raymond James says

** the story is behind a paywall. It’s annoying. I apologize. But really, the headline is all we really need here. :) **

🔥 Hot News Links 🔥

Here’s How to See Your ‘Spotify Pie Chart’

Spotify Is Conducting Paid Interviews About Its NFT Test Program — Is a Wider Rollout Next?

Spotify says it can hit 1bn users globally by 2030. But its MAU growth is slowing in Latin America.

Discover International Artists on the Horizon for Spotify’s 2022 RADAR Program

Spotify Users’ TV Choices Provide Valuable Audio Streaming Insights

Spotify Introduces Open Source Audio-to-MIDI File Converter ‘Basic Pitch’

4 little-known tips for mastering Spotify

🎵 New Adventures in Spotify 🎵

New Speedway Boogie - 2013 Remaster Grateful Dead

Lost Paraguayos Rod Stewart

When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around The Police

Look Away Big Country

Just the Same Way Journey

In the Stone Earth, Wind & Fire

Child Of The Moon - Mono The Rolling Stones

A Solid Bond In Your Heart The Style Council

Breakdown Grace Jones

Moving The River - 2007 Remastered Version Prefab Sprout

Silver's Blue Horace Silver

**Jim Seals, who as part of the duo Seals and Crofts crafted memorably wistful 1970s hits like “Summer Breeze” and “Diamond Girl,” died Monday at age 80.

We May Never Pass This Way (Again) Seals and Crofts

Get Closer Seals and Crofts

📧 Get in touch 📧

If you have a question, idea, request, or simply a desire to chat about Spotify, please email me at jeff.spotifynewsletter@gmail.com.

😀 Have a Nice Weekend! 😀