TNB Tech Minute: Spotify’s Subscribers Grew in the Fourth Quarter
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:34.5 | February 10th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Spotify continued to |
| 0:39.3 | add users in the fourth quarter as it expanded access to audiobooks globally and added new |
| 0:44.8 | features like allowing listeners to follow music venues for upcoming shows. Spotify's monthly |
| 0:50.1 | active users grew to 751 million, up 11% from the same quarter a year ago. Premium |
| 0:57.0 | subscribers increased by 10% to $290 million. For the full year, Spotify's net income was up about |
| 1:04.2 | 86% from the previous year, while revenue grew 10%. In January, Spotify said it was raising the cost of a U.S. premium subscription |
| 1:12.9 | by $1 to $12.99 a month. Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, has a content |
| 1:19.3 | partnership with Spotify. Honda suffered a loss in its car business, hit by U.S. tariffs and |
| 1:26.1 | EV-related impairments in the latest quarter. |
| 1:28.9 | The Japanese automaker booked nearly $280 million in one-time EV-related provisioning and |
| 1:34.6 | impairments for the three months end of December. An executive said today the company needed to |
| 1:39.5 | drastically change its EV strategy in the U.S., where the market is clearly slowing and scrap its previous |
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