Hello and welcome to issue #122 of the Spotify Newsletter. Thank you for reading!

Yet another big week for news from the Swedish streamer — highlighted by a big move into the ticket-selling market.

The new website - Spotify Tickets - is designed to sell concert tickets to their listeners, rather than redirecting them to other vendors such as Ticketmaster.

I like it. Feels right.

Beyond live events, there was lots of great news to drip out over the week. And here it is… the best weekly wrap-up of Spotify news in the world. 😀

★In the SPOTlight★

🔥 Spotify tickets: streaming firm tests direct pre-sales to fans

Spotify’s latest expansion into the world of live music will see the streaming service selling tickets directly to fans, rather than just linking to external ticketing firms.

For now, this is strictly a test rather than a full commercial launch. It kicks off tomorrow (10 August) with a small number of artists, with pre-sale tickets available to fans through Spotify’s app and a newly-launched tickets.spotify.com website.

🔥 Spotify's online music studio now offers live collaboration

Soundtrap will also auto-save your creations.

🔥 Spotify Launches Feature Allowing Users to Share Their Picks for Kendrick Lamar’s Top Projects

Starting today, Kendrick Lamar fans will have the option of participating in an interactive in-app experience on Spotify in which they can visually represent what they believe to be the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist’s top 5 projects.

🔥 Spotify has spent $1.2bn+ on companies to scale its non-music business over the past 3 years

Spotify has made a number of company acquisitions over the past three years to scale its audio and podcast business – and now we know how much it paid in total for them between February 2019 to the end of Q2 2022.

🗣 Podcast Action 🗣

Spotify announces its latest podcast with Sonu Sood

🎧 The Playlist List 🎧

What does a blank playlist on Spotify mean?

Ophelia Records Takeover North Coast Festival’s Spotify for Special Melodic Playlist

Spotify PokéPlaylist: How To View Your Favorite Artists As Pokémon Cards

💡 Tips & Tricks 💡

How to Remove Followers on Spotify

How to play Spotify on Discord by connecting accounts

💰 Spotify Stock 💰

Spotify Makes Another Big Move

🖌 Design Notes 🖌

easyJet and Spotify take people’s listening habits and recommend travel destinations

The Spotify System Model: Automated Architecture Visualization at Spotify

🔥 Extra News 🔥

Google Meet’s new feature lets users consume YouTube and Spotify together

Avicii’s “Waiting For Love” Finally Crosses 1 Billion Streams On Spotify

How an education program helped this product manager land her dream role at Spotify

Dvsn Covers Justin Bieber’s ‘All That Matters’ for Spotify Singles

Spotify on a mission to eradicate barriers for women

🎵 New Adventures 🎵

Since I Left You The Avalanches

Shark Smile Big Thief

Take It from Me Dionne Warwick

Publish My Love Rogue Wave

Back In Your Arms Again The Mavericks

The Way We Move Langhorne Slim, The Law

Put the Message In the Box World Party

Watch Your Step Elvis Costello & The Attractions

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Slow Down Jackson Olivia Newton-John

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain Olivia Newton-John

📧 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! 😀