Hello, my baby! Hello, my darling! Hello, my… “Cinnamon Girl?” With Neil Young‘s and Joni Mitchell‘s official catalogues removed from Spotify, there’s still at least one way fans can hear the famed songwriters’ tunes on the streaming service. Stephen Colbert tapped barbershop quartet the Chordon Bleus to reimagine some of …
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Graham Nash has joined the growing chorus of artistsremoving their music from Spotify to protest misinformation about vaccines disseminated by the platform’s Joe Rogan Experience. The move comes just one week after Nash’s former Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmate Neil Young demanded the streaming platform remove his catalog for …
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Spotify has begun to remove Neil Young‘s music following the rocker’s protest of dissemination of Covid-19 misinformation on the streamer’s Joe Rogan‘s podcast. Both Young, who shared a letter on his website, and Spotify confirmed the news in separate statements. On Monday, Young posted a since-deleted letter on his website …
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Spotify‘s not having a great time. The streaming service faced a punishing reaction on Wall Street following its second-quarter results last month: Daniel Ek’s firm’s share price fell 5.7 percent in a day, wiping around $2.5 billion off the market cap of the company in a few short hours. On …
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The Danish singer Maximillian has never been to the Philippines, but he’s wildly popular there. “Beautiful Scars,” a bright pop song preaching self-acceptance, cracked Spotify‘s Top 10 in the Philippines at the end of April, and it’s been hovering there ever since, earning over 150,000 streams a day on the …
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YouTube better watch out. Spotify on Tuesday announced the introduction of “video podcasts” on the music-streaming service — so that instead of just hearing beloved personalities talk about preferred topics, fans can also see their faces and observe their behavior and surroundings. The so-called “vodcasts,” available to Spotify free and …
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Kim Kardashian West is heading into podcasting, according to a new report fromtheWall Street Journal. The reality star and business mogul reached a deal with Spotify‘s growing podcast division for a series about criminal justice. Kardashian West will co-host and co-produce the show with television producer Lori Rothschild Ansaldi, whose …
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In response to the killing of George Floyd and other black victims of police brutality, record labels, artists, and executives across the music industry pledged their participation in Blackout Tuesday — a day meant to invoke reflection and honest conversation — over the last few days. The event has spread …
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Country music is undergoing a reckoning right now, as the music industry peers more closely at the exceedingly male landscape of artists and executives in the genre. Amid all that, former YouTube exec Rachel Whitney announced Thursday that she’s joining Spotify as the Head of Editorial for Nashville. She joins …
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