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Indie rock quartet alt-J won are sharing their new album This Is All Yours with fans, streaming the second studio effort on Spotify in advance of its release. -
Spotify 'Insights' Blog Uses Echo Nest and Streaming Data for Music and Stats Fans to Nerd Out
Good news for music and data nerds everywhere: Spotify has revealed Insights, a new blog dealing with both topics. The product is a result of the company's work with Echo Nest, the planet's predominant "music intelligence" company, which Spotify bought earlier during 2014. -
Robert Plant Slams Spotify: Former Led Zeppelin Frontman Calls Sound Quality ‘A Hell of a Compromise’
According to a recent interview from Vulture, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant has got a beef with music streaming juggernaut. The publication notes that Plant is not particularly a fan of the fact that the service streams his former band's music, largely because he believes the sound quality to be quite subpar. -
4 Reasons Why Spotify's 'Serendipity' Project is A Bad Thing, In Both Art and Business
Spotify has released a function that has the potential to be totally awesome but ultimately ends up being fairly annoying and downright wasteful: "Serendipity." -
Spotify Sends E-Mails Inviting Select Canadians to Test Streaming Service, Full Expansion to Canada Coming Soon?
Signs are good that Spotify will soon be opening its doors to our Northern neighbors however. The site has begun sending e-mails to Canadian citizens to serve as a test audience for the product. -
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. -
LINKS: Ian McKellen Says Actors Deserve a Living Wage, the Problem of Unpaid Gigs, Music Streaming Kills Jazz and Classical
All this week, news stories have been highlighting the precarious financial situation of many artists. First Salon.com reported that music streaming sites are reducing the royalties paid out to classical and jazz musicians. Then writer Daphne Carr addressed the problem of unpaid gigs. And finally, actor Ian McKellen called for a living wage for stage actors. -
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? -
Spotify's Most-Streamed And Most-Viral Songs Of 2014 So Far: Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse,' Pitbull's 'Timber,' John Legend's 'All Of Me," And More
Spotify recently released its list of the most-streamed and most-viral songs of 2014 so far. Topping the list for both Most-Streamed Song Globally and Most-Streamed Song In United States is Katy Perry's "Dark Horse." The track also reached No. 3 on The Most-Streamed Song In The U.K. It amassed more streams that any other song in the world with more than 142 million streams over the last six months. -
Spotify users skip a lot. Teenagers and weekenders are mostly to blame, according to The Echo Nest
Paul Lamere, director of developer platform for The Echo Nest (a data analysis firm that was acquired by Spotify in March) presented a number of graphs that indicate we as users skip a lot of songs. -
Spotify receives $200 million credit from lenders...is an IPO forthcoming?
Spotify still hasn't made anything official about whether it plans to go public anytime soon, but further proof has emerged to suggest the music streaming site is either planning an IPO, or building a stealth fighter jet. The company received a $200 million line of credit from Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, which generally indicates the approach of an initial public offering. -
Playing with Forgotify: does the new streaming app help users find new music?
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.
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