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For those music fans who can't seem to stop saying "I liked their earlier stuff before they made it big," Spotify has a new web app that satisfies your inner hipster called "Found Them First." -
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 Among Top Played Spotify Songs
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. -
Spotify 25 Under 25: Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, One Direction Led Streams
When it comes to owning Spotify's streams as a young musician, no one does it better than Ed Sheeran. Today (Aug. 18), the streaming service announced its "25 Under 25" musicians, and ahead of major pop players such as Ariana Grande, One Direction and Fifth Harmony, the title of the most-streamed young act of the year goes to none other than the "Thinking Out Loud" singer himself. -
Barack Obama Hand Picks Summer #POTUSPlaylist on Spotify
If you've ever given a thought to President Barack Obama's summer playlist, you're not alone and the curiousity can finally be put to rest. On Friday morning, the White House unveiled the summer #POTUSPlaylist on Spotify, complete with over 180 minutes of tunes and 40 tracks. One was crafted for the daytime and another chosen for specifically for nightfall, both hand-picked by Obama himself who's currently vacationing in Martha's Vineyard. -
Spotify Reportedly Planning On Offering More Premium-Only Content
Spotify is looking to expand its premium only content as it nears the final deadline to complete negotiations with the three major labels. According to a report in Digital Music News, citing anonymous sources, the streaming service is moving towards offering more content only to premium subscribers or for a very limited time to non-paying users. -
Spotify, Beatport Announce Music, Video Exchange Partnership
The world of electronic music and streaming just got shaken up in a major way today. Beatport and Spotify have announced a new content distribution partnership involving both music and video content. -
Neil Young Removes Music from Streaming Services, Cites Awful Audio
Neil Young has joined performers such as Taylor Swift and Prince in removing his music from the majority of streaming services, however he cites audio quality and not financial elements for the decision. The godfather of grunge has always been an audio-obsessive, but there's a chance that this recent decision was simply to help boost use of his personal service, Pono. -
Sony Music Defends Spotify Payout Process Amid 19 Lawsuit
Sony Music has defended its Spotify payout process after being sued by American Idol-affiliated outfit 19, which manages artists like Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson. Sony claims that taking equity in the streaming giant to the tune of 6 percent under its current deal and keeping some profits from artists are all within their contractual right. -
Chicago 'Cloud Tax' Adding 9 Percent Charge to Audio and Video Streaming
Residents of Chicago are already well familiar with the city's taxes on various forms of entertainment, and now those taxes will be passed along to streaming services such as Spotify for music and Netflix for video. The "cloud tax" will be 9 percent. -
Spotify's 2015 'Song Of The Summer' Is All About Good Times
"Song Of The Summer" is a title thrown around rather loosely to songs like "anthem" or banger. There are many tracks that aspire to be a soundtrack to the summer, but few actually manage to be that song. -
Soundcloud Introduces 15,000 Play Limit on API Embedded Tracks
Amidst all of the pressure from other major streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music and TIDAL, Soundcloud has found itself struggling to keep up as it attempts to resolve its ability to monetize the content on its platform without alienating its users. On Tuesday, the service announced a move to cap the number of plays on a third party site like a blog using a Soundcloud customized API. The cap is at 15,000 plays over 24 hours per streamable item, which may sound like a lot, but for a select few number of sites that are able to drive a lot of traffic, this could be pretty devastating. -
Spotify Charts Most Popular Keys in 30 Million Song Catalogue (Hint: It's Major)
Spotify's Insights blog took to the streaming service's massive music catalogue with the intent of figuring out what keys were most popular among the 30 million tracks. Every song is based around one of 12 possible notes, as well as a mode (generally major for "happier" music and minor for "sad"). That results in nearly every piece of Western music being played in one of 24 possible keys. Jazz pianist Kenny Ning moonlights as a data analyst for Spotify and he charted the results of what he found. So what key was most popular? -
Ultra Records CEO Patrick Moxey Backs Sony In Soundcloud Fight
The battle between Sony and Soundcloud has turned ugly this month as the label has decided to start pull down it's artist's music from the Berlin music service. Among those who have been affected this far include Adele, Miguel, Passion Pit and in the next day or two Madeon. Sony Music recently bought dance music label Ultra Records as its U.S. electronic music branch. Ultra Records CEO Patrick Moxey was a speaker at IMS Engage in Ibiza, a conference for electronic music industry folks and he was asked about the conflict between his label parent and Soundcloud. According to Music Week, he backed Sony and spoke rather candidly about the lack of monetization opportunities found on Soundcloud at the moment - a common theme echoed among labels now.
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