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Why stay in a single lane when you could take all of them? On Wednesday morning, Spotify announced “Original Shows” — a mélange of music, podcasting, and audio clips that feels oddly similar to an AM/FM radio experience, as the latest new feature on the rapidly expanding streaming service. “We’ve …

“If the ad revenue currently spent on radio instead flowed to online platforms, it would double the current size of the music business.” Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ekis making that argument in the wake of his company’s Q1 earnings announcement. According to Ek, the record industry should stop obsessing …

Eminem‘s “Stan” tells the six-minute tale of an obsessive fan’s downward spiral. With Dido’s “Thank You” sampled in between each anguished verse, it’s one of the Detroit rapper’s heaviest songs. That’s what pop singer Alec Benjamin thought when he first heard it. He covered the song on the most recent …

Spotify is no longer a music-streaming company. On Wednesday morning, the company announced a new playlist that combines music, news and podcast content for the first time and in one single personalized feed. The change effectively offers a leveled-up alternative to terrestrial radio and positions the Swedish streaming service as …

Gashi was in L.A. when he first heard Johnny Cash‘s cover of Nine Inch Nails‘ “Hurt.” He instantly related to it.“I’m a very emotional guy, and I’m very dark,” the Albanian rapper said on Spotify‘s Under Cover podcast. “And I tend to hide that because I don’t want people to …

Music streaming has always been a cutthroat market, with the leading companies not having many positive things to say about one another. But things became particularly heated this week when a small tweak to U.S. copyright rules — which actually happened a whole year ago and is resurfacing now because …

Ariana Grande continues to dominate streaming: The singer released Thank U, Next on Friday, and she currently has eight of the top 11 songs on Spotify‘s global chart, and nine of the top 10 on its U.S. chart on Tuesday. Her singles lead the way. The top three tracks in …

A former Spotify sales exec filed a lawsuit against the company Monday, accusing the streaming service of gender discrimination and equal pay violation. In the lawsuit, filed at the Supreme Court of New York, former Spotify employee Hong Perez claimed that the company’s sales team, led by Head of U.S. …