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Just days after people gleefully posted their Spotify Wrapped, bad news came for the music streaming giant. Spotify announced today that it would cut 17 percent of its workforce, a chunk that equates to an estimated 1,500 people. It’s…

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“Based on its current financials, Bandcamp requires some adjustments to ensure a sustainable and healthy company that can serve its community of artists and fans long into the future,” says a statement provided by Songtradr chief…

In early 2020, at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ash Gutierrez was 15 and living at home in the tiny North Carolina town of Hendersonville and really into the video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. At home, he heard his…

The world, you've concluded, would be a much better place if it were listening to the songs and attending the performances of your favorite lesser-known indie band.Whether you found this favorite musical act on a curated Spotify playlist…

In May 2006, Stockholm was the unlikely front line in the fight for the future of the music industry. The city’s police raided Swedish-owned file-sharing site The Pirate Bay and seized its web servers, temporarily shutting down its…

Bill Simmons, Spotify’s head of podcast innovation and monetization, slammed Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, after the company parted ways with the couple last week.Markle’s podcast “Archetypes” explored historical…

Spotify will not renew Meghan Markle’s podcast “Archetypes” for a second season, according to sources familiar with the matter.Markle’s podcast, which explores historical and cultural stereotypes of women, will not return for a second…

I woke up one day last year and realized I no longer listened to music. Instead I just listened to sludge—a blur of indistinguishable songs that imitated my music taste. My sludge addiction sprang from Spotify’s algorithmically curated…

The music business is pushing back against AI. Universal Music Group, home to superstars like Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, and Bob Dylan, has urged Spotify and Apple to block AI tools from scraping lyrics and melodies from its artists’…