Spotify Acquires WhoSampled: A New Era for Music Discovery
Update: 2025-11-19
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Spotify Acquires WhoSampled: A New Era of Musical ContextSpotify has acquired WhoSampled, a popular music database known for tracking samples, cover songs, and remixes. This move aims to help listeners explore music more deeply by providing rich contextual information. WhoSampled will continue to operate as a standalone website, maintaining its unique identity and extensive database. This acquisition comes at an interesting time for Spotify, following the announcement that co-creator and CEO Daniel Ek will be stepping down in early 2026. Spotify currently boasts 713 million active users as of September 2025.
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