The Latin music industry has seen massive growth over the last year. In 2022, revenue for these genres exceeded $1 billion for the first time, and it’s continued outpacing other parts of the industry. And Latin music has remained a force on streaming — so much that 2023 seems to …
Read More »Joe Rogan's Embattled Podcast Back on Spotify, But Other Shows Still Absent
After a brief disappearance from Spotify, The Joe Rogan Experience is back on Spotify, but other shows produced by The Ringer, Gimlet, and Parcast still appear to be missing from the streaming service. A rep for Spotify explained the situation, saying, “It’s a technical issue affecting a number of our …
Read More »Jessie Reyez Covers Drake's 'Headlines' for Spotify Singles
Jessie Reyez has shared a piano cover of fellow Canadian Drake’s Take Care track “Headlines” as part of the latest Spotify Singles release. Reyez’s rendition is vaguely reminiscent of Coldplay’s “Clocks,” with a steady four-chord piano hook; her vocals keep up nicely with Aubrey Graham’s original flow. “I might be …
Read More »The 1975 Hosting 'Enriched' Listening Party of Debut Album With Spotify
Before they release their new albumNotes on a Conditional Form in May, the 1975 will host a listening party of their 2013 self-titled debut through Spotify. The streaming app will utilize the Storylines function to make for an “enriched experience.” The 1975 listening party will begin at 2pm EST on …
Read More »Spotify Won't Raise Its Music-Streaming Prices — Yet
As streaming services solidify their position as the dominant way that people listen to music, a common question swirling around — from investors and users both — has been whether subscription prices will go up. Over the past decade, Spotify has helped set a U.S. market standard of $9.99 per …
Read More »Is Streaming Music Dangerous to the Environment? One Researcher Is Sounding the Alarm
Around 2013, University of Oslo professor Kyle Devine was reading a lot about junk. He’d grown fascinated with a subset of media studies that grappled with the growing problem of e-waste — old cellphones, computers, printers, etc. — and wondered if the problem was also plaguing ostensibly intangible things like …
Read More »'Spotify Teardown' Is the Book Spotify Didn't Want Published
What do you know about Spotify, the Swedish music company? Five researchers who have spent the last several years investigating the inner workings of the global platform would argue that it is neither particularly Swedish nor truly a music company: They posit that Spotify is a shape-shifting tech business, serving …
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