Björk is doing a lot with Apple right now — she recorded a DJ set for them on New Year’s Eve, sat down for a big interview ...
The new publishing agreement establishes a direct license between Spotify and Universal Music Publishing Group.
Its great strengths are its interviews with Spotify employees, use of internal Slack messages, and bringing into English for ...
Novelty suffers, too. By one estimate nearly three-quarters of streamed songs are over 18 months old. Compared with the raucous explosion of genres that characterised popular music until the 2000s— ...
Spotify first launched in 2008, about 17 years ago. Much has changed since then, and today, the platform is among the most popular music streaming services, with a considerable lead over other ...
For musicians, though, Spotify has been a more existential threat than the file-sharing revolution that spawned it, because it has the veneer of legitimacy. Meanwhile, says Liz Pelly, the company ...