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Chris Macowski is an accomplished professional in music communications and marketing, currently serving as the Global Head of Music Communications at Spotify since November 2017. Additionally, Chris co-founded Smacktone Studios and Smacktone Records in January 2011, contributing to a family-run music business that encompasses a record label, rehearsal space, recording studio, performance venue, and art gallery. Prior experience includes significant roles at Warner Music Group, where Chris held various senior communications and marketing positions from September 2010 to November 2017, and at Cornerstone Agency and The Morris + King Company as a Senior Account Executive. Early career experiences include public relations and production management internships at Tag Team Media Inc and Viacom, respectively. Chris holds a degree from the University of Florida, completed in 2006.
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Spotify
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Spotify is an audio and media streaming service that hosts music, podcasts and tv shows. Founded in 2008, Spotify has grown to one of the largest streaming platforms in the world, offering over 70 million tracks to its 360+ million users across 170+ markets. They are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in over a dozen countries. Spotify’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify helps users to discover, manage, and share music on their phone, computer or tablet by browsing through the collections of friends, artists, and celebrities, by creating a radio station, or by curating their own playlists. A leader in revenue generation for the music industry, over 1,000 artists generated over $1 million on Spotify in 2021, 450 generations more than $2 million, and 130 generated over $5 million. Spotify also paid out over $1 billion dollars to publishing rights holders (songwriters and producers) in 2021.