According to a detailed new report from Liz Pelly for Harper’s Magazine, Spotify is supplementing playlists with “ghost artists” as a means of decreasing the amount of royalties to pay and increasing overall profit margins. […]
Photo Credit: Spotify Spotify’s playlists and podcast pages are being abused by spammers to link to pirate websites offering games, ebooks, and other downloads. Here’s a closer look at this growing exploitation. Spotify’s webpage at […]
Photo Credit: Apple While the Apple Vision Pro headset dominated the news cycle this week, Apple Music is getting new features in iOS 17 to help it compete with Spotify. Apple Music is finally getting […]
Spotify is now testing ‘Your Offline Mix,’ a playlist feature that is automatically accessible when devices lack an internet connection. Photo Credit: Ivan Akimenko Spotify is officially testing “Your Offline Mix” – a playlist that, […]
Photo Credit: Spotify Spotify is introducing a new kind of mix playlist called Niche Mixes. Here’s how they work. Spotify already has what it calls personalized mood mixes, but it also features decades and genre […]
Photo Credit: Daniel Cañibano Some Apple Music users are reporting seeing user-made playlists they didn’t create in their libraries. These seemingly user-created playlists are showing up in libraries of people who did not create them. […]
Photo Credit: Bastian Riccardi About nine months after it began allowing select artists to sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on-platform, Spotify is testing a feature that enables certain NFT holders to access exclusive playlists. The Stockholm-headquartered […]
Photo Credit: Spotify Spotify has added the ability to exclude certain playlists from your taste profile. Stop your sleep playlist, kid’s nursery rhymes, and more from influencing your actual music preferences. “We understand why you […]
Photo credit: Heidi Fin If you were a 90s kid like me, you probably remember curating playlists before there were playlists. They were called mixtapes, or “burning a CD.” We put our favorite songs in […]
Sam Comrie ❘ Published: 2022-11-28T15:42:10 ❘ Updated: 2022-11-28T15:42:17 Can you look at Spotify Wrapped 2022 yet? If you’re eager to know what songs have dominated your Spotify this year, here’s everything […]
Photo Credit: Brett Jordan Apple Music has become the first streaming platform to take action against Kanye by pulling its curated “Kanye West Essentials” playlist. After companies like Adidas and Balenciaga dropped the rapper for […]
News articles have comments, YouTube has reaction videos, and now a new test from Spotify sees the streaming service experiment with audio reactions for music playlists. The experiment came to light thanks to a Reddit […]
Photo Credit: Spotify Spotify is now testing audio reactions to playlists — users react to a playlist with a voice clip posted as a podcast episode. First discovered on Reddit, Spotify is now testing a new audio […]
YouTube is introducing new seasonal recaps of your top artists, songs, albums, and playlists to YouTube Music, starting first with the Spring Recap. YouTube rolled out a Spotify Wrapped-style annual recap at the end of […]
Photo Credit: One Submit If you’re here, you’ve probably learned that getting on Spotify playlists is the way to grow your streams, get more exposure for your music, gain followers, likes, and saves. However, what […]
Photo Credit: Behnam Norouzi A Spotify playlist study has found that the Big Three labels (UMG, Warner, Sony) benefit most from curated playlists. In many cases, they practically control them. Consultancy firm Music Tomorrow published […]
Radio stations across the US have supported the #FreeBritney movement in aid of popstar Britney Spears by playing her tracks every hour over the weekend. The #FreeBritney movement has become one of the biggest campaigns […]
Shared from The Verge – Entertainments If you’ve been following The Verge’s coverage of the Spotify / Joe Rogan / Neil Young / Joni Mitchell stories, you may have decided to change from Spotify to […]