Dolly Parton, Julien Baker, and Black Pumas are ringing in the holiday season by collaborating with Spotify. Parton joined Spotify’s For the Record podcast on their Christmas episode, where she discusses her new album A Holly Dolly Christmas and collaborating with Michael Bublé on the track “Cuddle Up, Cozy Down …
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Tencent Music Entertainment, the biggest music-streaming company in China, is in trouble. Ever since the company struck a sub-licensing deal with Warner Music Group (WMG) in November 2014 — the first of its kind — it has enjoyed a privileged relationship with the world’s biggest music-rights companies. That privileged relationship …
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Los Angeles boy band Why Don’t We talked about their decision to cover a song by rapper Juice WRLD on this week’s edition of Spotify Under Cover. The pop group’s rendition of “Lucid Dreams” is a simplified acoustic version — they harmonized and slowed down the tempo for a gentler …
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Songwriters usually operate out of the public eye: Even when creating inescapable hits that charge up the charts, they rarely leave the studio. But earlier this month, writers angrily stepped into the spotlight. In an open letter to Spotify, a group of hitmakers spanning generations and genres, from pop-R&B legend …
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Janelle Monáe doesn’t do cover songs that often. “I’m very selective about the cover songs that I choose and they mean so much to me,” she said on Spotify’s Under Cover podcast. “It’s really difficult because I spend so much time crying to them or dancing to them that I …
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Spotify really, really wants to launch in India. The streaming company has been staffing up an office in Mumbai for a year, and finally suggested in website updates recently, after deflecting rumors for months, that January 31st would be the date it rolled out to 1.3 billion potential new customers. …
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