# Spotify
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Spotify’s Sour Note: Market Rout Wipes Out 13% as Streaming Enthusiasm Hits a Wall
Spotify shares plummeted by over 13% at the market open on April 28, reflecting deep investor concern over the platform's profitability margins. The sharp decline underscores the growing difficulty streaming services face in balancing expensive content acquisition with a market that is increasingly focused on bottom-line results.
Google's Gemini Adds Lyria 3: AI That Turns a Sentence or Photo Into a 30‑Second Song
Google has added Lyria 3, a music generation model, to its Gemini app enabling 30‑second songs from text or images and integrating with YouTube Shorts. The move raises competitive pressures on streaming platforms, offers new tools for creators, and revives questions about copyright, attribution and monetization of AI‑generated music.
U.S. Stocks Open Mildly Higher; Spotify Rockets 11% After Q4 Beat as Coca‑Cola Lags
U.S. markets opened modestly higher with the Nasdaq nearly flat and the Dow up about 0.26%. Spotify jumped 11% after beating fourth‑quarter expectations, while Coca‑Cola fell following a revenue shortfall, illustrating continued earnings‑driven divergence within markets.
China’s Kunlun Tiangong Aims to Build an ‘AI Spotify’ Abroad as Music Models Hit a 2026 Inflection Point
Kunlun Tiangong founder Zhou Yahui says the company’s Mureka V8 music model marks a 2026 inflection point for AI-composed music and plans to launch an overseas, Spotify-like AI music platform. The firm will avoid direct competition with China’s ByteDance and Tencent, collaborate domestically, and focus overseas on productising AI-generated music via creator tools, a consumer app and APIs. Zhou argues AI music and short-form AI dramas could be the first major categories disrupted by native AI platforms in the next 1–3 years.