Some Spotify users have reported a recurring issue where the app plays a single song and then pauses. Music lovers are then tasked with finding their own methods to restart their music. For some ...

Here’s a music industry newsflash: everybody hates Spotify’s cut-rate ‘bundled’ royalty payments — except for Spotify.

Muzak had infiltrated stores. Moby’s Play (1999) reached hit status through aggressive licensing, including in commercials.

Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024 — some $1 billion more than last year, the previous record — making its total around $60 billion since it was founded in 2006.

If your life revolves around instant playlists and your favorite musical artists, errors in the Spotify app or on the web can ...

Novelty suffers, too. By one estimate nearly three-quarters of streamed songs are over 18 months old. Compared with the raucous explosion of genres that characterised popular music until the 2000s— ...

In her book, music journalist Liz Pelly peels back the curtain on the Spotify algorithm and explains how it's affecting the music industry.

Five days ago, Spotify disputed a report that Apple Music pays artists more than double compared to Spotify’s average rates. In completely unrelated news, Spotify has published a blog post announcing ...

The new publishing agreement establishes a direct license between Spotify and Universal Music Publishing Group. By Zoe G. Phillips Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a new multiyear deal ...

Since replacing Google Play Music, it’s become Google’s premier music streaming service. Like Spotify, it offers a free, ad-supported tier of service. What’s great about YouTube Music is ...

While terms of the deal were not announced, sources confirm to Variety that the deal improves at least some of the payment structure of Spotify’s controversial music-audiobooks “bundling ...