Song credits have been a long-requested feature by YouTube Music subscribers. It's been available on rival services like Spotify and Tidal. Songwriters have accused many of leading music streaming services of failing to give due credit to artists behind the songs played on their respective platforms.
BTS has extended their own record becoming one of the biggest teams on the music platform, Spotify. Back in 2021, BTS overtook Coldplay to become the most streamed group on Spotify and have now extended their record substantially. The group’s total streams across credits add upto a whopping 31.96 billion in number.
The dis track now makes them title holders for the most streamed Latin track on Spotify in 24 hours (14,393,324). The fastest Latin track to reach 100 million views on YouTube in two days and approximately 22 hours, among other titles, according to a press release.
Spotify is rolling out a new home feed that features small snippets of vertical video that take over the entire screen. The new feature from Spotify has left lots of folks asking something quite simple: Why?Spotify is a music streaming app.
YG Entertainment girl group had successfully achieved 8,880,030,049 individual streams across all credits. 'How You Like That' contributed with its 746,198,263 streams, 'Kill This Love' with 672,084,360, and finally 'DDU-DU' with 574,613,362 of its own.
In 2022, 57,000 artists earned more than $10,000 in royalties from Spotify. That works out to just 0.6% of artists on Spotify making at least $10,000. From that group, only 213,000 artists average at least 10,000 monthly listeners.
MBW’s Stat Of the Week is a series in which we highlight a single data point that deserves the attention of the global music industry. The company also updated its annual music royalties report, Loud & Clear.
Spotify has an AI DJ in the beta stages. The DJ is a personalized AI guide that knows you and your music taste so well it can choose what to play for you.
Music streaming service is rolling out a new AI DJ service starting this week. The voice is modeled on the melodious rumble of Xavier “X” Jernigan. Spotify wrapped, the AI DJ’s access to your personal data goes deeper than you may think a music service is capable of.
Spotify Technology SA announced on January 23 that it has plans to cut 6% of its workforce, or roughly 600 jobs, adding to a glut of layoffs in the technology sector. The company said its chief content and advertising business officer, Dawn Ostroff, will depart as part of a broader reorganization.
Fans of the singer got angry after the singer wasn't given due credit on Spotify for his recent song Vibe. On the platform, the song says Vibe (feat Jimin of BTS) but does not appear under his name.
BTS member Park Jimin recently collaborated for the track Vibe with BIGBANG member Taeyang. But the fans of the biggest K-pop band took to Twitter to trend ‘Blacklabel Respect Jimin’. One user wrote, “BLACKLABEL credit BTS JIMIN for “VIBE” & please make the song available under his Spotify profile,are 2 versions which doesn’t properly credit him. It’s affecting his monthly listeners, top artist position.
The hit single titled ‘Dreamers’ is a song by BTS singer Jungkook. The song has been trending for a while now and has been in the limelight for breaking records and taking over the music charts. This time, the song has managed to become the fastest solo song by a K-pop or Korean solo artist to garner over 50 million streams on Spotify within 13 days.
Spotify Wrapped's launch is a day of joy and celebration for music fans. But for parents all over the globe, it's a mourning day for them. For the last five years, perhaps longer, it has become an abomination -- an obscenity unfit for human eyes and ears.
Blackpink are the most-streamed girl group on Spotify and most-subscribed to music artist on YouTube. The O2 show is hugely entertaining and finished to a very high standard. The best tracks carry some of the spacey strangeness of Timbaland or the Neptunes’ exploratory early-00s R&B.
Music composer Pritam is again on top of everyone's Spotify wrapped list. People started to churn out memes and hilarious posts on the micro-blogging platform. Arijit Singh continues to be the most-played artist on Spotify in India. For the third consecutive year, playback singer Arijit is most played artist on the site.
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Drake, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Ye and The Weeknd are the most streamed artists in the U.S. Drake also came in at No. 1 for most streamed female artists. The rapper revealed who he listened to the most in 2022. He listened to 2Pac for 246 minutes and was among the top seven percent of the late rapper's listeners.
Carlos Alcaraz and Paula Badosa took to social media to share their Spotify Wrapped playlists. The tennis stars revealed their top artists of the year and their top five songs. Badosa also revealed that Bad Bunny was her most-played artist in the year. The 19-year-old will play in Abu Dhabi for the Mubadala World Tennis Championships.
Spotify Wrapped 2022 brings everything users love about music recaps from the past year. Apart from finding out their top songs, artists and how many minutes of music they have listened to this year, Spotify also assigns users one of many ‘music personalities’ based on their taste. Here’s how to do it on an Android smartphone, although if you’re an iPhone user, things shouldn’t be very different.
Spotify users are comparing their app-generated roundups of their most listened music in 2022. For the third year in a row, Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist worldwide. In second place came Taylor Swift, followed by Drake, Drake, The Weeknd and BTS.
Spotify Wrapped, the music-streaming service’s annual recap of all the music you’ve been listening to for the year, is back for its 2022 edition. Starting today, Spotify will be sharing its in-app personalised user experience to users which will let them know their top artists, songs and genres.
Spotify Wrapped is the annual list of what users listened to the most during the year. Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist globally in 2022, with more than 18.5 billion streams. Harry Styles' As It Was’s As it Was” is the most popular song on Spotify around the world.
Spotify's Wrapped compilation of your most heard songs and top artists throughout the year is something that takes social media by storm each year. YouTube Music Recaps are similar to Spotify Wrapped, letting users know their favourite artists, most liked songs and other music-related data based on their listening patterns. A new Identity feature will give users a personalised ‘music personality’ that will again, be based on your listening habits.
Elon Musk criticized the fee Apple charges software developers for in-app purchases, and posted a meme suggesting he was willing to go to war rather than pay the levy. Musk suggested Apple had threatened to block Twitter from its app store, although he did not explain why. Spotify has previously submitted antitrust complaints against the iPhone-maker in Europe, and Epic Games sued Apple in the United States in 2020.
Spotify Instafest is a third-party app that hooks into your Spotify data to create a fantasy festival lineup. The app was created by Anshay Saboo, a student at the University of Southern California. It's well designed and clean, and mimics the three-day style of most major festivals.
The Instafest web application allows users to create their own custom fake festival lineup based on their Spotify listening habits. The app is created by University of California Santa Cruz student Anshay Saboo and generates what looks like a festival poster based on your Spotify listening patterns. Here is how you can download the auto-generated graphic and share it wherever you like.
Prime tier upgrade also includes ad-free podcasts from Wondery, New York Times and CNN. Amazon Music is now the third-most popular streaming service in the world, after Spotify and Apple Music. The updates could push some free Spotify users to switch to Amazon Music, particularly if they already subscribe to Prime.
Spotify added 23 million monthly active users (MAUs) in the quarter ended September 30, 2022, taking its total base to 456 million, driven by growth in markets such as india and Latin America. The company's advertising business grew by 19 percent to €385 million (around $384 million), led by strong double-digit increase in its podcast business.
Swift’s midnights forced the music streaming platform Spotify to crash after it was launched. Several users from across the globe reported that they were unable to use the app. Users said that they got “No internet connection” errors upon opening Spotify.
Thousands reported problems with accessing Spotify technology SA. As many as 7,844 outages were reported by users across the global monitoring service downdetector.
'Today in B.C.' podcasts are available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart and Google. The archie Courtnall Centre helps provide mental health and addiction services for patients arriving in emergency at the Royal Jubilee Hospital.
U/nearlymind shared a screenshot from the app which asked if they would like to switch to Spotify Platinum in the next 30 days for $19.99. The user said they were asked to fill the survey after they cancelled their Spotify Premium subscription in favour of Apple Music.
Deepika Padukone recently featured on the Spotify podcast ‘Archetype’ hosted by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex. The episode, which also featured american actor Constance Wu, delved into the importance of taking care of our minds. In many parts of the world, including india, mental health and conversations around it are still considered a taboo.
The song will be released on September 23, 2022, 18:00 KST (05:00 EDT) through streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. The song emphasizes the climax to deliver the cheering message for ‘Goal of the Century’ and anticipation toward the world cup.
The audiobooks market was estimated at $4.8 billion in 2021. The market was expected to grow at about 14% compound annual growth rate to $9.3 billion by 2026.
The move makes it a true all-in-one destination for everyone’s listening needs. None of those books are included with the Spotify subscription. Users who discover audiobooks in the Spotify app will be able to purchase them on a web page.
NewJeans has become the first K-Pop group to make it to the weekly and daily charts with a debut track. Their self-titled debut EP, Attention became the first k-pop debut track to chart on Spotify's weekly top song USA chart when it landed at no. 200 on september 8.
The duchess of Sussex released the first episode of her podcast Archetypes last Tuesday (23 August), as part of her multi-million dollar deal with Spotify. The series was also produced by archewell Audio, the production company founded by Markle and Prince Harry.
Blackpink's pre-release single track, Pink Venom, was dropped almost a week ago. It has shattered a number of records on the charts. The girls are making history on the Spotify chart.
Spotify is extending its free trial period for Spotify Premium to three months. The free trial is available to eligible Free and first-time users. Both offers are now live and will run through September 11.
Tencent Music Entertainment Group's U.S. Shares rose 5.9% in extended trading after it said users who paid for online music jumped by a quarter to 82.7 million. Music subscription revenue of the platform that operates like Spotify (SPOT.N) rose 18%. Overall revenue, however, fell 13.8% from the same quarter of last year.
Spotify is offering three free months of service for new Premium subscribers. The three-month offer is available for new individual and student subscribers. New Spotify Duo and family subscribers can receive one free month. The offer isn’t available to former Premium subscribers who canceled before July 15th.
Zayn Malik sent the internet into frenzy with his soulful rendition of Night Changes. The 29-year-old singer took to his Instagram handle to share a rare video of himself singing the boy band’s No. 1 song on Spotify. The monochromatic clip showcases the ex-boyfriend of supermodel Gigi Hadid soulfully singing.
Zayn Malik shared a rare video of himself singing the One Direction jam Night Changes. The song is now the boy band's No. 1 song on Spotify. Fans took to the comment section to gush over his voice and the fact he was singing a One Direction track after all these years.
Apple has been apparently charging a 30 per cent fee on in-app purchases. Spotify also provided an external subscription option to its iOS app. When a user selects the subscription option in the Netflix app for iOS now, a notification stating that Apple is not liable for the transactions being made appears in the pop-up window.
BTS member J-Hope released his first full-length solo album on July 15. 'Jack In The Box' has amassed 100 million streams on Spotify, all within 8 days of the release of the album. This is second to only his own group’s anthology album ‘Proof’ which recorded 222 million streams and above in June 2022.
'Mmmh' stands at 100,171,190 streams on the global music streaming platform. The song was officially unveiled on November 30, 2020. It took about one year, seven months, and three weeks to reach the 100 million streams mark.
Kep1er’s title track ‘WA DA DA’ has crossed 100 million streams on Spotify. It took the song about seven months to cross the 100 million mark on the global music streaming platform Spotify. The rookie girl group recently made their first ever comeback with their second mini album ‘DOUBLAST’
According to Spotify, on July 22, TREASURE’s ‘DARARI’ has surpassed 100 million streams. It was part of the first EP called ‘The Second Step: Chapter One’ which went viral on TikTok with over 5 million videos used on the platform.
'MONEY' was a song on the album without a music video. It was as popular as the title song 'LALISA' a month after the release of the soundtrack, it caused an unusual sensation of running backwards on major charts around the world.
BTS’s youngest member Jungkook recently joined hands with Charlie Puth for the much-loved track Left and Right. The song has been breaking records on global charts ever since it was released. The track crossed 100 million streams on the music streaming platform, Spotify. Puth took to his Twitter account and shared the 'insane' news.
Apple will slow down the hiring for 2023 owing to tough global macroeconomic conditions. The company is likely not to backfill some positions too, the report noted. Microsoft has also slowed hiring in the Windows, Teams and Office groups. Other tech companies that have slowed hiring include Nvidia, Snap, Uber, Spotify, Intel and Salesforce.
Actors and hosts Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Kiki Vijay and Ma Ka Pa Anand spearhead Spotify’s new Tamil podcasts. Spotify has created 10 original podcasts so far, including popular ones like Crime Spot with YouTuber RishiPedia and Naallanaa Murukku by RJ Balaji.
Rookie girl group IVE’s song ‘LOVE DIVE’ has crossed the 100 million mark on Spotify. As of writing, the song stands at 102,211,961 streams on the global music streaming platform. The dark modern pop genre song possesses an addictive chorus, and carries the message of having the courage to fall in love.
Meta's Vice President of Remote Presence and Engineering- Maher Saba has asked the managers to identify and move to exit the poor-performing employees of the company. The decision has been taken because the company is struggling with macroeconomic pressures and hitting its advertising business. The company recently warned employees to expect a tough second half of the year.
The Swedish company said the game would work as a music discovery tool. The financial details of the firm’s first gaming deal were not available. The Wordle-inspired game gives players six opportunities to guess a song based on its opening notes. At the end of the game, all players discover the song and can listen to it on the music streaming platform.
Spotify to expand video podcasts for creators in six new countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Mexico. This is the first time Spotify has allowed this feature in non-English speaking countries. Video-native podcasters will now have access to Spotify's audience around the world.
The OST 'Christmas Tree' for the drama 'Our Beloved Summer' sung by V surpassed 135 million streams on Spotify, the world's largest music platform, on July 6. This is the fastest record not only as a Korean OST, but also a Korean male solo artist, and 'Christmas tree' is recording 136,729,346 streams on July 9th.
