Bob Seger & (Not) Streaming; Spotify Debuts ‘Traffic Jams’; The Music Industry’s Quest for Consumer Data

In the era of streaming music, everything ever recorded is supposed to be at our fingertips. So how did one of the biggest names in the Classic Rock canon go missing?

Put artists in a car, tune up the music, drive around... sounds familiar. Spotify gave it a new twist for "Traffic Jams."

Bas Grasmayer looks at how the music industry has been collecting and understanding consumer data over the years, and how that data is being used.

Spotify may be the reigning leader when it comes to the largest number of paid subscribers for a streaming music service, but it's Apple that comes out on..

The runaway success of the podcast “Serial,” which originated within the public radio show “This American Life,” helped spark interest in the medium, which is reaching new audiences.

Spotify scientists are pushing data-driven marketing throughout the company, Global VP Mayur Gupta tells Drew Neisser.

“Today, outside of the vinyl LP resurgence, there are no indications the playlist won’t be streaming’s standard unit for the foreseeable future."

Paul Wilson Looks at Audiophile's listening habits.

The playlist effect.

An innovative circuit of rehearsal rooms for up-and-coming artists has expanded across eight major cities in the UK – taking its total operation to more than 90 studios. Pirate Studios offers artists a taste of professional quality rehearsal rooms from £4-an-hour, with locations in Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Leicester, Liverpool, Sheffield, London and Nottingham.

Newly released sales figures for 2016 show we're a nation of borrowers rather than owners of music, preferring to spend our money on streaming services.

The image above is my Spotify listener stats….notice the huge spike on the right? That’s the point at which I got off my ass and started treating it like a Social Media platform.

Wynk didn’t reveal how many paid subscribers it has but it did say that on an average people use the app for 75 minutes every day.