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Spotify’s Monthly Active Users Rise Above 500 Million, Beats Estimate

The Spotify app on an iPad is pictured, March 20, 2018, in Baltimore. (AP)
The Spotify app on an iPad is pictured, March 20, 2018, in Baltimore. (AP)
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Spotify’s Monthly Active Users Rise Above 500 Million, Beats Estimate

The Spotify app on an iPad is pictured, March 20, 2018, in Baltimore. (AP)
The Spotify app on an iPad is pictured, March 20, 2018, in Baltimore. (AP)

Spotify Technology SA on Tuesday reported first-quarter monthly active users that crossed the half billion mark for the first time helped by the music streaming company's expansion into more markets.

The number of monthly active users rose to 515 million in the quarter, beating Spotify's guidance and analysts' forecasts of 500 million, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

Premium subscribers, who account for most of the company's revenue, rose 15% to 210 million, topping estimates of 206 million.

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Brazilian Police Arrest 2 People over Plot to Bomb Lady Gaga Concert

Fireworks are seen at the end of Lady Gaga's open concert, in Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 4, 2025. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
Fireworks are seen at the end of Lady Gaga's open concert, in Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 4, 2025. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
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Brazilian Police Arrest 2 People over Plot to Bomb Lady Gaga Concert

Fireworks are seen at the end of Lady Gaga's open concert, in Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 4, 2025. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
Fireworks are seen at the end of Lady Gaga's open concert, in Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 4, 2025. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Brazilian police said on Sunday that they had thwarted a plot to detonate a bomb at Lady Gaga’ s concert in Rio de Janeiro.
The event, on Saturday, was the biggest show of her career that drew some 2 million fans to Copacabana Beach.
Rio de Janeiro's state police said they had worked with the Justice Ministry to disrupt an attack allegedly planned by a group that was spreading hate speech. Police said the group sought to radicalize and recruit teenagers to carry out attacks using Molotov cocktails and improvised explosives.
“The plan was treated as a ‘collective challenge’ with the aim of gaining notoriety on social media,” the police said, according to The Associated Press.
Authorities said they arrested two people in connection with the planned attack — the alleged leader of the group on illegal weapons possession charges in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and a teenager on child pornography charges in Rio.
Authorities said police raided the locations of 15 suspects across several states in Brazil and confiscated phones and other electronic devices.