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Spotify

July 2024

  • the Spotify logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen near a pair of earphones

    The Conversation
    Spotify’s new audiobook bundle may reduce music royalties and shortchange authors

    Millicent Weber for the Conversation
    Music artists say the bundle is ‘cheating’ the royalties system while authors have concerns about how streaming will affect how they’re paid and rights over their work

May 2024

  • Beyoncé, Shaboozey, Post Malone and Dasha

    Ten-gallon hits! Why country is the biggest pop music craze of 2024

    Beyoncé and Dua Lipa have swapped mirrorballs for rhinestones, while new stars such as Shaboozey and Dasha are making hay with uptempo hoedowns. Even the UK is enjoying its first rodeo – but can it last?

April 2024

  • BESTPIX - Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour - Singapore<br>SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - MARCH 02: EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO BOOK COVERS Taylor Swift performs during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at the National Stadium on March 02, 2024 in Singapore. (Photo by Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

    Taylor Swift hits 1bn Spotify streams in a week with Tortured Poets Department

    Swift’s new album breaks another streaming record after already becoming the platform’s most-streamed album in a day
  • Cyborg sings into a microphone

    Suno AI can generate power ballads about coffee – and jingles for the Guardian. But will it hurt musicians?

    Plug in some prompts and the ‘ChatGPT for music’ whips up a song in seconds – if you don’t mind slightly silly lyrics
  • Beyoncé

    What’s so bad about a reboot? It doesn’t dilute the original, it adds to it

    Rebecca Shaw
    A new take, like Beyoncé’s cover of Dolly Parton’s Jolene, only expands the work. So why do people love complaining?

March 2024

  • Damon Krukowski

    How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream?

    Damon Krukowski
  • Joni Mitchell performing at the Gershwin prize presentation to Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Washington DC, 20 March 2024.

    Joni Mitchell follows Neil Young in returning her music to Spotify

  • Headphones on blue and pink background

    Danish man found guilty of fraudulently profiting from music streaming royalties

  • A person using DJ decks

    Swedish composer becomes Spotify’s most-famous musician you’ve never heard of

  • Neil Young to return music to Spotify as he attacks ‘disinformation’ across streaming services

  • TechScape newsletter
    How much does Spotify really pay Apple?

  • EU fines Apple €1.8bn over App Store restrictions on music streaming

February 2024

  • The Spotify app icon displayed on a smartphone

    Apple says Spotify wants ‘limitless’ access to its tools without paying

  • Bright blue headphones and lead seen on a pink background

    Danish man on trial over alleged £500k music streaming fraud

  • Two earbuds and Apple Music app logo

    Why is Apple facing a €500m fine from EU over music streaming?

  • the Apple app store icon

    Apple reportedly faces €500m fine from EU over music streaming access

  • Jazz composer Maria Schneider: ‘David Bowie cracked me – maybe not in a good way’

  • Spotify swings to loss as it adds 200,000 audiobooks to paid service

  • Spotify signs new deal with Joe Rogan reportedly worth up to $250m

  • Spotify claims to have paid audiobook publishers ‘tens of millions’ in royalties

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