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Why Albums Drop and Movies Launch
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In the summer of 2007, Kanye West and 50 Cent…
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Trump’s DHS Uses Spotify Tradition to Try to Joke About Deportations
The Department of Homeland Security has innovated a cringey new way to spread its blatantly made-up statistics documenting its ethnic…
Beauty
Spotify Wrapped’s New “Listening Age” Feature Did Not Need to Read Us Quite So Hard
I don’t give Spotify a ton of credit for its annual Wrapped feature (the idea famously came from an intern!), but I have to admit that…
Style
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Nick Arter, a thirty-five-year-old in Washington, D.C., never quite managed to become a professional musician the old-fashioned way. He…
Culture
New lawsuit alleges Spotify allows streaming fraud
A NEW lawsuit alleges streaming giant Spotify turns a blind eye to vast networks of bots that inflate streaming figures to benefit…
Culture
Spotify flags price rises as it introduces new services: FT
Spotify will raise prices as it invests in new features and targets one billion users, the Financial Times reported on Sunday (Aug 24)…
Culture
Spotify to raise premium subscription price in select markets from September
Spotify Technology shares gained in premarket trading after the company announced it is raising premium subscription prices across many…
News
Spotify Paid $100 Million to Podcasters as Creator Wars Heat Up
Spotify has paid more than $100 million to podcast publishers and creators since January, the company told The New York Times’s DealBook.…
Culture
Spotify weighs US$6 premium for added features, access to tickets
SPOTIFY Technology is looking to charge as much as US$5.99 a month on top of existing subscriptions for a new super-fan streaming service…
Culture
Spotify forecasts profit above estimates on subscriber growth, price increases
In the fourth quarter, premium subscribers rose 11 per cent to 263 million, compared with Visible Alpha estimates of 260 million. SPOTIFY…
Culture
Universal Music, Spotify reach new multiyear distribution deal - The Business Times
UNIVERSAL Music Group and Spotify Technology reached a new multiyear distribution agreement that includes compensation for recorded songs…
Style
Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?
Like countless other people around the globe, I stream music, and like more than six hundred million of them I mainly use Spotify.…
Style
The Hollow Allure of Spotify Wrapped
I joined Spotify, the Swedish streaming service, toward the end of 2020, spending the better part of a Sunday transferring my Apple Music…
Style
How Much Do Artists Make on Spotify?
Spotify has transformed how artists share their music and earn money. But many wonder, how much do artists make on Spotify? This article…
Lifestyle
Spotify Wrapped drops Taylor Swift gesture ahead of release
While music fans still eagerly await this year's Spotify Wrapped, the streaming platform has teased fans with a nod to Taylor Swift. Every…
Lifestyle
As Spotify Wrapped nears, what to expect from Apple and YouTube
It's almost that time of year again. Music lovers are wondering when Spotify will release its annual Wrapped, the personalized recap of…
Lifestyle
Map shows favorite Christmas songs in every state
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You is the most popular Christmas song across all states in America, but as a Newsweek map…