In an article for Fast Company last year, Chris Stokel-Walker raised an alarming question about a certain mostly-ubiquitous ...

Spotify has released its annual "Loud and Clear" report — a comprehensive look at how artists have performed on the platform. Spotify said it paid out over $10 billion to the music industry ...

Québécois artist Patrick Watson’s “Je te laisserai des mots” was the most popular Francophone track on Spotify in 2024. It was also the first French-language track to pass a billion streams. Over 40 ...

Spotify launched a new masterclass to help artists understand what artificial streaming is and how to prevent them from falling for scams related to it.

Spotify holds Artist Masterclass on combating stream farming Adeayo Adebiyi Follow Artificial streaming, which includes fake plays from bots and click farms, remains a serious issue in the music ...

In 2024, Spotify paid out $435 million to Canadians. Another interesting fact is that roughly 40 per cent of royalties generated were for independent artists or labels, which means around $186 million ...

The number of artists generating more than $50k, $100k, $500k and $1 million CAD per year in revenue on Spotify has also doubled across every level since 2017. In particular, several music genres saw ...

Explore how Egyptian artist Spotify payouts have doubled in 2024, highlighting a vibrant music scene with international listeners.

Spotify addressed the negative user feedback to its Wrapped 2024, and it's already thinking about ways to improve this year's music recap.

To gauge how popular or recognizable a certain artist is, Spotify calculates a popularity score from 1-100 based on the general popularity of the artist’s discography. The music scene in I.V. serves ...

One of Spotify’s biggest new features was AI DJ’s first major upgrade, which now takes requests through voice prompts so that you can have more input with your personal in-app maestro.Since ...

Has an AI “artist” topped 370,000 Spotify monthly listeners in just weeks? It sure seems that way, and the development is ...