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# Troubled Deezer Names A New CEO
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/troubled-deezer-names-a-new-ceo/
- Published: 2010-02-01T03:54:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-02-01T03:54:00.000Z
- Description: The surprise ouster of Deezer co-founder and CEO Jonathan Benassaya was the talk of Midem. Why would the #1 music streaming service in France replace its top exec just as. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/02/troubled-deezer-names-a-new-ceo.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

The surprise ouster of Deezer co-founder and CEO Jonathan Benassaya was the talk of Midem. Why would the #1 music streaming service in France replace its top exec just as it was coming under fire from labels to find a better monetization model as well as looming competition from Spotify?[![image from www.xwear.fr](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20128773ec72b970c-250wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20128773ec72b970c-pi?ref=hypebot.com)Now in a brief press release, Deezer has announced Axel Dauchez as its new CEO. He previously ran European animation group Moonscoop. "Deezer is already a fantastic success, but is still far from having exploited its full potential," Dauchez said in a statement. With only 15,000 of its 12 million subsribers paying anything to use the service, that could prove to be quite a challenge