• YouTube Red Subscription Video Service Takes on Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal

    In the often talked about battle of music subscription services, three big players are most frequently talked about. Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal lead the pack and the discussions. However, what is usually left out of that conversation is the fact that with more than 1 billion users, YouTube trumps them all in terms of numbers, and today the video service announced the rollout of a new subscription model dubbed YouTube Red, which the company hopes will bring more money to content creators, more videos and more viewership.

  • Spotify Drops Victory Records for Alleged Unpaid Royalties

    As of Monday night, Spotify users in the U.S. no longer have access to the Victory Records catalog. The streaming music giant dropped the content due to a current battle over unpaid artist royalties, sister company Another Victory Publishing claims.

  • Joanna Newsom Slams Spotify, Compares it to a Rotten Banana

    Joanna Newsom's first album in five years, 'Divers,' drops next week, but don't expect to find it on Spotify. The harp-playing singer-songwriter slammed the music-streaming service in a recent interview, calling it "the banana of the music industry," asserting that "it just gives off a fume. You can just smell that something's wrong with it."

  • Spotify's 'Discover Weekly' Playlists Hit 1 Billion Streams

    Earlier this summer, Spotify launched it's widely talked about Discover Weekly playlist feature, which provides an algorithmically curated list of songs to each user's account personalized to their tastes. Early numbers from the company show that users are enthusiastic.

  • Spotify Goes Crazy, Lists 50 Weird Music Genres, Including Nerdcore & Vegan Straight Edge

    Genres at their best are broad classifications that help us categorize the vast pool of music our culture produces, and at its worst incoherent adjectives that can't be defined by the musicians who ascribe to it or the fans who follow it. Which is why it's so crazy that Spotify gives credence to 50 horrible genres. From nerdcore to vegan straight edge, to catstep, Spotify is determined to amuse you are make you mad enough to want to throw your iPod.

  • Spotify Expects To Have 100 Million Users By End Of 2015

    The business world has convened on New York City this week for a slew of panels, presentations and meetings as Adweek now comes to a close. Spotify has been one of the major players in the music space and early on in the week, the streaming giant made the bold proclamation that it intends have "close to 100 million" users by the end of the year.

  • National One-Hit Wonder Day is Here, Celebrate With Your Favorite Hits

    You've had a long week at work and now it's time to relax and watch a movie or go out on the town and party. Either way, it's National One-Hit Wonder Day and no matter what your Friday plans are it's about time we honored these artists that once meant so much to pop culture and then dropped off the face of the earth.
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