{"id":1361,"date":"2025-10-04T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/daniel-ek-stepping-down-changes-nothing-for-spotify\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:00:00","slug":"daniel-ek-stepping-down-changes-nothing-for-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/daniel-ek-stepping-down-changes-nothing-for-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/STKP217_Daniel_Ek_A.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Spotify has found itself the target of artists&rsquo; ire for many reasons over the years: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/digital\/news\/two-weeks-later-neil-young-finally-removes-his-music-from-spotify-1201550338\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poor audio quality<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/12\/7\/9861372\/spotify-year-in-review-artist-payment-royalties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terrible<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/21\/23971616\/spotify-royalties-labels-streaming-fraud-pushkin-malcolm-gladwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">payouts<\/a>, giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/3\/22\/24109073\/joni-mitchell-spotify-music-available-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Rogan<\/a> millions of dollars\u2026 the list goes on. But recently it&rsquo;s been CEO and founder Daniel Ek&rsquo;s extracurricular activities that have been cause for consternation. Over the past few months his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/cdc02d96-13b5-4ca2-aa0b-1fc7568e9fa0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funding<\/a> of German defense company Helsing through his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/fc69f2b8-8016-4833-a9e1-61154e4b25eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investment<\/a> firm Prima Materia has been the final straw for many acts, including Hotline TNT, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOvvJrlDP71\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massive Attack<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/godspeed-you-black-emperor-remove-music-from-streaming-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Godspeed You! Black Emperor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/697337\/deerhoof-greg-saunier-spotify-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deerhoof<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMfdCgHIQKv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Then, on Tuesday, Ek announced that he would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/788278\/spotify-founder-daniel-ek-stepping-down-ceo-executive-chairman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stepping down<\/a> as CEO. Neither Ek nor Spotify gave any indicat \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/791593\/daniel-ek-stepping-down-changes-nothing-for-artists-boycotting-spotify\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has found itself the target of artists&rsquo; ire for many reasons over the years: poor audio quality, terrible payouts, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}