• 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.

  • Justin Bieber Releases Acoustic Version of 'What Do You Mean' [WATCH]

    Pop sensation Justin Bieber has announced that he has released an acoustic version (as promised to fans) for his No.1 single "What Do You Mean." The release has officially set the Spotify record of being streamed 21 million times in five days. He had initially offered the stripped-down version to his fans if they would set a world record for streaming on the hip music discovery site and the Beliebers certainly seem up to the challenge after hitting their goal in less than a week, beating out One Direction's standing Spotify record.

  • Eminem, The Killers and Linkin Park Top New Spotify Timeless Music List

    Using data from Spotify, a new publication called Polygraph has visualized the music that has stood the test of time. These streaming music playcounts can give us insight and actual numerical backing to long held debates such as Notorious B.I.G. vs. Tupac Shakur or the validity of Linkin Park as a lasting band in the annals of history as the band's hit song "Numb" comes in at No. 3 on a list of most played songs on Spotify after Eminem's "Lose Yourself" and The Killer's "Mr. Brightside."

  • Music Has Been Streamed Over One Trillion Times In 2015

    Streaming is the present and future of music consumption. Consumers, artists and industry observers will all agree on that point. There has been a growing number of data as to how ubiquitous the practice has become in the past few years, but the Pandora-owned music data analytics company Next Big Sound has put it very simply. In the first six months of 2015, music was streamed over one trillion times across various services such as Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Rdio, Vevo, Vimeo and Pandora.
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