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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek admitted his company fumbled the deployment of a new content policy that sparked considerable controversy within the music industry.Spotify reportedly rethought its controversial decision to ban certain artists from playlists based on their “hateful conduct” and moved to reinstate rapper XXXTentacion, but not another artist, R. Kelly. The initial announcement met with immediate backlash."We rolled this out wrong and could have done a much better job," said Ek on Wednesday night on stage at the Code...
Spotify
Daniel
Ek
Co-Founder / CEO
For all the controversy and criticism — “They don’t pay artists!” “They’ll never make a profit!” — in just over 10 years, Spotify has etched its place as biggest music streamer and goosed a formerly moribund music business. At the helm is Ek, whose combination of engineering skill, marketing savvy and myth-building flair has beaten companies with substantially deeper pockets, like Apple, Google and Amazon — although how long it can maintain that supremacy is unknown. Still, in 2018 the company cleared its greatest hurdle — entering the stock exchange via an unusual public listing IPO — and was recently valued at $36 billion. Just announced is Spotify for Artists, which enables independent musicians to upload their music directly to the platform.
