• Michelle Shocked Releases Silent Album Called 'Inaudible Women'

    L.A. funk band Vulfpeck recently made headlines with its completely silent album Sleepify, which earned the band $20,000 from Spotify after they asked fans to stream it on repeat as they slept. Now another artist has pulled a similar silent stunt. Controversial singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked has released an album titled Inaudible Women, which as its title implies, is completely inaudible.

  • Vulfpeck 'Sleepify': L.A. Band Receives $20,000 From Spotify For 'Silent Album'

    Music streaming service Spotify is notoriously stingy when it comes to paying out royalties to musicians, but Los Angeles funk band Vulfpeck somehow managed to get $20,000 from the company without recording a single note of music. The band's debut album Sleepify is a five-minute, 10 track release containing nothing but absolute silence, and yet it received 5.5 million plays in just seven weeks. Why would anyone possibly want to listen to this album, let alone 5.5 million times?

  • Playing with Forgotify

    Today (Feb. 13), the top songs on Spotify are Katy Perry's "Dark Horse," Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" and A Great Big World's "Say Something," massive hits whose streaming numbers have all helped to notch them spots in the top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart... but, what about music by Steve Haggard, Johnny Richardson and Ftah? No one has ever listened to them on Spotify... before me, that is.

  • Spotify Lures Times Subscribers with Free Premium Membership

    Spotify hasn't had to deal with much competition in terms of music streaming services. Beats Music, the new product offered by the makers of Beats by Dre headphones, has made ground at an alarming rate and stands to catch Spotify a lot quicker than the latter had planned. The older service isn't taking it lying down however, and will soon be offering premium memberships to thousands of newspaper readers. For free.

  • Deezer Streaming Service Plans for Entrance to American Market in January

    You, unless you are one of our fine readers from around the world, have probably not dealt with Deezer. Spotify is the reigning music streaming service in the United States, but Deezer-one of the planet's biggest competitors to the aforementioned streamer-aims to enter the American market in January 2014.
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