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⭐️ Spotify Partners with Bandsintown to Boost Live Music Discovery
With Bandsintown event listings now directly integrated into Spotify, artists can reach the right fans — while they’re listening — driving better engagement and stronger sales for their live events around the globe.
⭐️ Spotify for Podcasters adds new integration with Riverside, sunsets some legacy podcasting tools
Spotify has announced an expanded partnership with video and podcast recording platform Riverside, and is sunsetting some of its legacy podcasting tools. The company is shutting down its web- and mobile-native creation tools, including its “Music + Talk” tool, which is an experimental feature that allows podcasters to include full licensed music tracks in their podcast episodes on Spotify.
⭐️ Spotify’s layoffs put an end to a musical encyclopedia, and fans are pissed
Now, Glenn McDonald’s beloved Every Noise at Once project is in jeopardy.
⭐️ Spotify Launches ‘Spotify Classics’ Hub Highlighting Albums From Beyoncé, Rihanna and Jay-Z
The program, which will be highlighted as a hub on the platform starting today, seeks to define more recent albums that the editorial team has deemed as streaming classics. The collection of 30 records dates from 2015 to the present day in North America, contending with the notion of what makes a classic and how the artists shifted the public’s perception of what an album can and should be.
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Reggaetón Mexa music rocketed to 1.8bn Spotify streams in 2023
Usher Gets 550% Spotify Streaming Boost After Super Bowl — With Opener ‘Caught Up’ Surging 2,000%
Spotify Removes Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign Track Over Alleged Copy Right Infringement
Harry Styles Reaches A Very Rare And Very Special Milestone On Spotify
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Meghan Markle inks new podcast deal with Lemonada after 'Archetypes' Spotify failure
Zettle and Spotify alumni raise €10m for grid tech startup Fever
Brené Brown Brings Podcasts ‘Unlocking Us, ‘Dare to Lead’ to Vox Media
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Damo Suzuki, Can Vocalist, Dies At 74: Suzuki’s tenure in Can included the hugely influential albums Tago Mago (1971), Ege Bamyasi (1972) and Future Days (1973), and his incantatory, oft-improvised vocals were the spiked cherry on top of the group’s brain-melting, funky Krautrock sundae.
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