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Spotify’s fourth-quarter earnings beat Wall Street expectations
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Swedish audio streaming platform Spotify 4th quarter performance announced . Spotify recorded a double-digit number of premium service users, and had the highest net increase in monthly active users (MAU) in any quarter in history.
According to the report, the company averaged 751 million monthly active users (MAU) last quarter, an 11% increase over the previous year. Spotify’s premium subscribers reached 290 million, a 10% increase from the previous year. The number of ad-supported users also increased 12% year over year to 476 million.
Spotify’s total revenue jumped 13% last quarter to $5.3 billion (€4.5 billion). Gross margin for the quarter also improved 83 basis points year over year to 33.1%. Operating profit for the fourth quarter amounted to $834 million (€701 million).
Spotify has expanded the audiobook offering of its premium service in five countries, including Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Monaco. Spotify expects this expansion to give its subscribers access to hundreds of thousands of audiobooks in addition to music and podcasts.
Music streaming platform Spotify paid out $11 billion to the music industry last year. This is the largest annual amount paid to a music creator by any distributor in history. Spotify also says it has helped artists generate more than $1 billion in ticket sales by connecting fans to live performances.
The music streaming platform has expanded its partner program to include Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. The program aims to provide creators with new ways to monetize, grow and connect with their fans.
Cryptopolitan before Spotify is offering its music video service to premium users in the U.S. and Canada, giving them access to a growing catalog of official music videos. reported
Spotify predicts better-than-expected first quarter 2026 results
Additionally, the company predicted that its first quarter operating profit would exceed Wall Street expectations, signaling a continued upward trend for the platform. Spotify’s fourth-quarter growth marks the first earnings announcement since co-CEOs Gustav Soderstrom and Alex Nordstrom took over as CEOs, succeeding Daniel Ek.
“The fourth quarter of 2025 was my last quarter as CEO of Spotify, and it was a very strong year. We continued to grow, hit new records, and made significant progress across the company. I am grateful to the teams around the world who made this achievement possible, and I look forward to the next chapter of Spotify led by Alex and Gustav as co-CEOs.”
– Thank you founder of Spotify.
Eck acknowledged that Spotify has built an audio technology platform that allows creators and audiences to connect. He also believes that Spotify’s dent will become more important in the future.
Eck also uses technologies such as artificial intelligence, new interfaces, and wearable devices. change It was claimed that it would reshape the way people discover and experience audio and media. But he confirmed that the company will continue to develop technology to address these changes in music, podcasts, books, video and live performance.
Alex Nordstrom says the company has successfully completed what has been called its ‘year of accelerated execution’. Additionally, the company disclosed that it met or exceeded guidance in all key metrics.
Alex said the company had set 2026 as the ‘year of growing ambition’, arguing that Spotify was founded to solve seemingly impossible problems. He also added that ambition will be the core principle that will guide the platform’s next chapter.
Gustav Soderstrom claimed that his job was to quickly understand new technologies and capture their potential, and that he had done so on several occasions. He said he believes the shift to artificial intelligence will benefit the industry as a whole, and that companies that embrace the change and move quickly will benefit the most.
date: 2026-02-10 14:53:00
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