Journalist Liz Pelly and musician Ian Kamau discuss what the streaming economy means for both fans and artists.

Novelty suffers, too. By one estimate nearly three-quarters of streamed songs are over 18 months old. Compared with the raucous explosion of genres that characterised popular music until the 2000s—hip ...

If you think Spotify was designed to be a music platform, you’ve been tricked. Liz Pelly has the receipts.

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"You DO NOT want to live in a world without the freakish weirdos who make the music that is the most alive, the art that's ...

The landscape of streaming music is only getting bleaker by the day, from low payouts to the generally fickle algorithms that push a very select few artists. Unfortunately a report by Luminate does ...

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Nigerian music sensation, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly called Wizkid, has become Africa’s biggest earner on Spotify. Music statistics monitoring platform Chart Masters recently revealed artists ...

Ong oversees 130 Spotify employees doing what the service’s powerful algorithms can’t: discovering the best new music and carefully introducing it on playlists to the listeners who are going ...