If you are an avid playlist-creator on Spotify, then I am sure you must agonize over creating cool playlist covers. Well, I feel you and so does mobile software engineer, Pandu Shree (@PanduShree4), who created an amazing tool to let you easily create awesome covers for your Spotify playlists.
As part of Spotify's "Track IDs" playlist series, future bass trailblazer Flume has curated a huge list of songs to soundtrack your weekend. The playlist's description explicitly states that its contents consist of Flume's favorite tracks, offering fans a rare glimpse into the selection tastes of one of the most revered music producers and sound designers in EDM.
Spotify has a difficult reputation among artists. For consumers, it's great because it's relatively cheap and you have access to just about every piece of recorded music you could ever ask for.
Over the last few years, Spotify has released a special treat for listeners in the form of its annual 'Wrapped' round up. Spotify Wrapped is available through the app and is a retrospective round-up for each user on their listening habits from the last year.
Spotify AB can instantly deliver nearly any song available to hundreds of millions of users around the world. The company has experienced meteoric growth and now offers a huge amount of podcast content as well. Its total monthly average users grew 29% year over year, to 320 million, in the third quarter of this year.
In Los Angeles, one morning in March 2019, the musician Claire Chicha - who is half of the singer-producer duo Spill Tab - received a text message from a close friend and A&R representative for a major record label.
This summer, Spotify debuted "track IDs," a suite of Dance/Electronic playlists co-curated by the world's leading DJs and Spotify's editorial team. The playlists provide DJs with a platform to easily share the tracks they would play in their sets, further connecting them with their fans.
( Hypebot) - Spotify is expanding access to its Canvas looping image cover art feature to more artists and labels via deals with independent and DIY distributors. CD Baby and Symphonic are among the first distributors to announce automatic Canvas access for verified artists using their services, but more are sure to follow.
Now might be good time to check your Spotify playlists. TikTok users are discovering a "secret" feature on the music streaming platform, leading to plenty of embarrassment online. Apparently, artists can see when you add their songs to your Spotify playlists. The realization, shared by singer Kira Kosarin sent TikTok users spiraling.
BTS' new album "BE" enjoyed an unsurprisingly strong opening day on the Spotify platform. All seven songs from the album appear inside the Top 15 on the Global Spotify Streaming Chart for Friday, November 20. "Skit," the lone non-musical track, follows closely behind at #21.
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing - and changing us. Spotify wants to own the podcasting space, and it's made that clear with a series of high-profile acquisitions and deals over the past two years - including the Ringer, Gimlet, Joe Rogan, and, most recently, Megaphone.
Back in July, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek caught flak for saying it's no longer enough for artists to record "once every three to four years"-that they need to pump out more product if they want to make a living streaming their music on his platform. As the man cutting their modest checks, Ek would know.
Student life at Columbia was hard enough to navigate even before the COVID-19 pandemic, but with people scattered across the globe, finding a community within the student body has become even more difficult. With our monthly Spotify playlists, Spectrum hopes to engage the University community and reminisce about the activities and memories that we share.
I'm coming a bit late to this one, but Timothy Yu-Cheong Yeung recently analyzed Spotify listening trends, and found that people in COVID-19 lockdowns prefer to listen to the oldies. His paper reporting his findings is here, and there's a good story about it in the Guardian (they created that cool chart, above).
Storytelling is key to understanding what a brand stands for. But the way we tell stories - and the way people consume them - have changed a lot over time. Like other brands, Spotify has relied on tools like blogs or microsites to share its stories.
In celebration of Barack Obama's highly anticipated book release of A Promised Land ,the POTUS unveiled his own personally curated playlist today, which you can now listen to on Spotify. The book will officially hit shelves on Tuesday, November 17th.
The influx of star podcasters looms over a dispute between the union and managers at the Spotify-owned digital media company founded by Bill Simmons. The head coach of the Golden State Warriors. A former ace of the New York Yankees. A onetime star of "The Bachelorette." Steve Kerr, C. C.
The HELM Bolt is a $99 portable, THX-certified, MQA-capable USB-C DAC and headphone amplifier. Once connected to a smartphone or laptop, the Bolt will pull digital audio from the host device and convert it to analogue using its own onboard circuitry, thus bypassing the smartphone or laptop's internal DAC and headphone amplifier.
The idea has been brewing in Holmstén's mind since around 2018, the year he was promoted to his last Spotify role. He joined the streaming service in 2013 after it acquired his music discovery startup Tunigo, which became the foundation for Spotify's playlist strategy.
"Reach people as they cook, study, travel, work out, stream what they love." That is Spotify's sale pitch to advertisers. The music and podcast service clocked 185 million monthly active users supported by advertising in Q3 2020 - 31% up on the prior year - as it made €185 million from advertising, equating to a dollar in advertising revenue per user.