Spotify stops live streaming service Spotify Live

Spotify is discontinuing its live audio app Spotify Live. The company gives no reason for this, but says that it no longer makes sense to have a separate app to show live music performances. Some of the functions are integrated into Spotify itself.

Spotify confirms the cancellation to Music Ally. Spotify Live is a standalone app where artists could stream live performances. Other live events could also be organized such as radio shows or interviews with artists.

According to Spotify, there is no longer a good reason to offer such an app standalone. The company says it has experimented with live audio for a while and learned a lot from it, but that it doesn’t have to exist as a separate app. Spotify wants to integrate certain parts of the service into the Spotify app itself, but the company does not say which ones exactly. Spotify says there are “promising results” around what the company calls “listening parties” with artists. Those are live streams where fans can chat with artists.

Spotify took over the app in 2021. The app was then called Locker Room and was part of a start-up that Spotify took over at the time. The app was initially intended for interaction between athletes and their fans, but later the app was renamed Greenroom and later Spotify Live for music artists. The app seemed to be a competitor for Clubhouse, but it had to deal with less and less active users. The company does not say anything about the specific user numbers of Spotify Live.