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Spotify’s Average Subscriber Is Now Paying Less Than $5 Per Month
The company also announced that it surpassed 158 million paying subscribers worldwide
Apple Music Pays $0.01 Per Stream
A memo from the streaming company, reviewed by Rolling Stone, details the Spotify competitor's payment structure for labels, artists, and songwriters
Hear New Trailer From the Obamas’ Higher Ground-Produced Podcast ‘Tell Them, I Am’
Host Misha Euceph's upcoming musical guests include Mvstermind, Yuna, and Zakir Hussain
Spotify Has Heard Artists’ Complaints ‘Loud and Clear’
The streaming service responds to artists’ grievances of low royalties with an interactive site offering new data points
Will SoundCloud’s Fan-Centric Royalties Spark Wider Change?
"You want to get paid for the fact that they're spinning your record — not the fact that someone thinks they're spinning someone else's record," says Hipgnosis CEO Merck Mercuriadis
We Compared Popular Music Streaming Services — These Are the Three You Should Check Out
Access millions of songs across all of your gadgets in just a few taps
Spotify Marks 20th Anniversary of Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’ With Enhanced Playlist
Never-before-seen Interstella 555 concept art, unearthed 2001 interview feature on streaming service's tribute to duo's second LP
Noah Cyrus Leans Into Cabin Folk With a Cover of Bon Iver’s ‘Re: Stacks’
"It’s one of my favorite songs of all time," Cyrus says, "and Bon Iver is an artist I have always looked up to and am constantly inspired by"
Inside the ‘Black Market’ Where Artists Can Pay for Millions of Streams
Digital marketer Joshua Mack brags on call with high-powered management company about the ability to “manipulate” streaming systems to “hit astronomical numbers"
Phoebe Bridgers Covers John Prine’s ‘Summers End’ for Spotify Singles
Singles package also includes a new version of "Kyoto" with Jackson Browne
More People in the U.S. Bought Music Subscriptions Than Ever In 2020
15 million new people in the U.S. bought music streaming subscriptions in 2020, according to the RIAA's new year-end report
Ava DuVernay Announces Spotify Podcast Series on Police Accountability
Unscripted series will stem from filmmaker's Law Enforcement Accountability Project