Spotify Stock Down 6%, Live Nation Up 6% Music Share Prices Fall
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Overall Structure:
The code appears to be a section of a webpage, likely a news or financial article. It includes:
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Extracted Text (Content):
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Elsewhere, the U.K.’s FTSE 100 fell 0.6% to 9,667.01, lowering its year-to-date gain to 17.5%. South Korea’s KOSPI composite index, which has gained 67.9% in 2025, rose 4.4% to 4,100.05. China’s Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.4% to 3,902.81, raising its year-to-date advancement to 21.5%.
Music is underperforming other indexes as stocks have remained resilient in the face of tariff uncertainty and job losses. Since the week ended Sept. 12, the Nasdaq composite index is up 4.2% and the S&P 500 has risen 3.1%. The BGMI, conversely, has fallen 18.0% over those 11 weeks through the week ended Dec. 5.Many of the index’s largest components have sank over those 11 weeks, including Global Music Group (down 7.3%), Warner Music Group (down 14.7%), Live Nation (down 14.9%) and Spotify (down 23.1%).
The previously high-flying Spotify fell another 5.7% to $564.93 this week, making the Stockholm-based company the second-worst performer behind French music streamer deezer, which dropped 6.0% to 1.03 euros ($1.20 ). Spotify shares have fallen 22.4% since the company’s Sept. 30 announcement that CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek would step down as CEO and assume the role of executive chairman at the end of the year. And even though Spotify is still up 21.1% in 2025 – besting the Nasdaq’s 20.2% gain and the S&P 500’s.
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