Spotify indicators licensing settlement with Rotana Music

Audio streaming platform Spotify signed a licensing settlement with Saudi Arabia’s Rotana Music Group. The settlement will permit the label’s once-exclusive music catalogue to be accessible on Spotify throughout the Center East and North Africa, and different markets the place the service is dwell.

This has enabled Spotify to develop its Arabic music catalogue by including over 10,000 Arabic songs to its platform. The brand new catalogue options over 10,000 songs by a wide range of over 100 legendary Arab artists from throughout the area, together with Elissa, Abdul Majeed Abdullah, Rashed Al-Majed, Assala Nasri, Majed Almohandis, Rabeh Saqer, Mohammed Abdu, Najwa Karam, Bahaa Sultan and Tamer Hosny. Spotify shall be offering additional on-platform assist with the introduction of a brand new vacation spot, “That is Rotana”, which shall be house to among the hottest songs by the label. As well as, Spotify’s very personal “This Is” playlists for every main artist shall be up to date usually with their songs from the Rotana catalogue.

The Rotana catalogue shall be accessible to customers in Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Pakistan Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.