Tag: spotify

Apple announced a 10% to 12% increase, effective immediately. Spotify is going up in 2023, CEO Daniel Ek said less than 24 hours later.

The music streaming platform is luring livestreaming artists back from Twitch and YouTube by leveraging fan donations.

Louie Vega's love letter to NYC nightlife, the legend and Gil Scott-Heron collaborator Brian Jackson, Beretta Music and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.

Did you want better royalties? How about a remote control for your phone instead? Meet "Car Thing," Spotify's latest proof of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Vinyl jumps, CDs explode and your digital downloads are getting kinda bummed out. More revelations from the RIAA 2021 annual sales report for the record industry.

Shocking the industry, Epic Games - publisher of Fortnite and Unreal Engine - has purchased Bandcamp, the leading independent artist platform. What now?

Spotify's Serfs: A new report breaks down the Black Box of Streaming and the brutal financial realities of the music industry's streamonomics.

Live from Detroit with Norm Talley & Upstairs Asylum, Lea Lisa, Cratan and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.

Spotify's last money-grab from artist royalties alarmed government investigators. Now they're grabbing even more.

Revenues from music subscribers continue to fund podcast spending at the world's largest streaming service.

Monty Luke on BLM, Climate Change and Creating a Catalogue of Black Electronic Music, Brawther cover mix and more inside the latest issue of 5 Mag, out now.

SiriusXM - already the owner of streaming giant Pandora - has made a strategic $75 million investment in SoundCloud. It looks like either SoundCloud is doing great or SiriusXM is getting ready to eat them.

Record labels have long wanted it, and Spotify is said to be planning a new test of higher monthly subscription rates in Scandinavia.

Why is a music company so eager to make musicians poor? Spotify is taking songwriters to court and claws back millions in "overpaid" royalties.

Will Sumsuch went to the Brighton Music Conference, and what he saw was "an industry suffering from an identity crisis."

It's even bigger than you think: beneath the surface of curated playlists, Spotify is a mess, adding an estimated 40,000 NEW tracks every single day.

Barely a week ago the bankrupt iHeartMedia empire announced their plans to get their company listed on a major stock exchange. Then they began laying off reporters and DJs.

The 2019 IFPI record industry report claims revenue is growing again.

The database is now adding 1 million records every 9 months, but is unlikely to catch up to the torrent of digital music being released every day.

The new playlists are curated by industry insiders and aim to capture what Spotify perfected half a decade ago.