{"id":2062117,"date":"2025-10-01T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2062117"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:56:16","slug":"ek-is-out-spotify-names-new-co-ceos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ek-is-out-spotify-names-new-co-ceos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ek Is Out! Spotify Names New Co-CEOs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cause for celebration has been greatly exaggerated.<\/p>\n

From the press release:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI always believed that Spotify could play an important role in revolutionizing listening around the world, and with more than 700 million users, we\u2019ve truly charted a new course bringing creativity to every corner of the globe,\u201d Ek said in a statement. \u201cOver the last few years, I\u2019ve turned over a large part of the day-to-day management and strategic direction of Spotify to Alex and Gustav \u2014 who have shaped the company from our earliest days and are now more than ready to guide our next phase. This change simply matches titles to how we already operate. In my role as Executive Chairman, I will focus on the long arc of the company and keep the Board and our co-CEOs deeply connected through my engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hold on their ex-chief. Spotify didn\u2019t bring creativity to every corner of the globe, Spotify monetized creativity from every corner of the globe for their own benefit while giving back crumbs. Ek\u2019s net worth is a reported $9.2 billion according to Forbes making him the highest paid person in the music business who has absolutely nothing to do with making music. Ick. Here\u2019s hoping that long arc bends towards justice.<\/p>\n

For more of my thoughts on Spotify, see Spotify Finally Rolls Out Lossless Quality Streaming (and why I don\u2019t care)<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source twitteringmachines.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cause for celebration has been greatly exaggerated. From the press release: \u201cI always believed that Spotify could play an important role in revolutionizing listening around the world, and with more than 700 million users, we\u2019ve truly charted a new course bringing creativity to every corner of the globe,\u201d Ek said in a statement. \u201cOver the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2062118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ek-Is-Out-Spotify-Names-New-Co-CEOs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062119,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062117\/revisions\/2062119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}