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With each year’s Spotify Wrapped season comes many a reminder that Spotify is the lowest paying streaming service — a new tool, Merch Table is trying to help though. Spotify has long been criticised for their payment per stream — which is $0.00437, by the way. PB = PB || {}; PB.gptStandAlone = PB.gptStandAlone || […]
In case you havent seen it…all over your news feed and timeline today, Spotify has returned with its highly anticipated 2020 Wrapped series, which showcases users’ listening habits throughout the year. As well as individual users, the streaming giant has unveiled details around Australia’s listening preferences en masse, and turns out we really bloody love […]
As if Spotify‘s bar couldn’t go any lower, the streaming giant are now offering labels and artists the chance to promote their music in users’ recommendations via radio and autoplay. The catch? Artists and labels won’t have to pay, but they will have to agree to “a promotional recording royalty rate”. PB = PB || […]
If you’re a music lover who’s active on Instagram, you may have come across the excellent @albumreceipts account. Since May, the account’s owner has been sharing custom “receipts” made from the tracklists of great albums. With over 230 posts having been shared to the page since it started four months ago, there’s a fairly broad […]
The business owes much of its wealth to the work of Black artists but has just a handful of Black executives in its most senior jobs. Companies large and small say they’re devoted to change. Source
Spotify Australia & NZ has announced a new competition that will give a lucky fan in either Australia or New Zealand the chance to guest program the service’s #ListenLocal playlist for a week. The competition asks fans who want to get involved to make a playlist of 15 – 30 songs only including Australian or […]
For years, Spotify has limited the amount of songs that users can save to their online libraries at 10,000. When users attempted to save their 10,001st tune, they’d be hit with a message from Spotify congratulating them on their “epic collection”, telling them there was no more room, and that they’d have to remove some […]
Spotify have taken the next steps to help making listening to local acts easier, with the launch of new microsite focused on their #ListenLocal playlist. “We are extremely proud that this has resulted in the discovery of some incredible talent,” Head of Music at Spotify AU/NZ Alicia Sbrugnera said of #ListenLocal in a press statement. […]
As you’ve been stuck inside self-isolating due to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s likely your listening habits have changed a little. Whether you’re listening to more of your old favourites, or discovering new ones (as this recent study from Billboard and Nielsen Music/MRC Data suggests), many of us are suddenly listening to a whole lot more music […]
Whether you’re constantly listening to music with your pet, or if you’ve ever simply felt that familiar twinge of sadness at having to leave your four-legged BFF alone when you leave the house, Spotify have come up with a solution. The streaming service has launched a function which algorithmically generates a playlist designed to keep […]
