Talking Heads’ David Byrne has posted another of his playlists, this one titled “I Am My Own Algorithm.” Byrne writes: Here’s recent stuff that’s in my current playlist. Not everything is current, but ...

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From June 2020 to June 2021, YouTube paid more than $4 billion to the music industry, the company announced this month -- a much-increased sum from the world's biggest video platform where product… By ...

Most independent rappers don’t fail because the music is bad. They fail because they don’t understand the first 24 hours.

Justin Fowler is the co-founder of Audio Press – a way to consume news and content through audio. When Pandora Radio launched in January of 2000, it didn’t seem to catch on until that half of the ...

The #MuteRKelly movement is rolling full steam ahead. On Thursday streaming giant Spotify removed Kelly’s music from their popular editorial or algorithm playlists as part of their new public hate ...

Engineer Ari Vaniderstine tweeted a link to a Glitch project called Nelson this morning, which is a browser application that lets Spotify users fiddle with various inputs in the recommendation API and ...

Spotify this morning announced a major change to how its playlists will operate, with the news that some of its previously human-curated playlists will now be personalized based on listeners’ tastes.

When it comes to music streaming subscriptions, Spotify has the lion’s share of the market. According to Digital Music News, the Swedish streamer occupies a little over a third of the U.S. market, and ...

Researchers have discovered that YouTube’s algorithm has lumped together videos of partially clothed children in recommended playlists, raising concerns about exposure to predators online. The videos ...