Miley Cyrus‘ ’Flowers‘ Breaks Spotify’s One-Week Streaming Record; Music Spending Is Hitting New Highs (DSPs Need To Catch Up)

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⭐️ Miley Cyrus‘ ’Flowers‘ Breaks Spotify’s One-Week Streaming Record

The singer sent her thanks to her fans on social media.

⭐️ Smores is a music discovery app with a TikTok-like feed

Music streaming platforms all claim to use both artificial intelligence and manual curation to find new songs from emerging artists. But users often have to listen to many songs just to find some likable tracks — that’s because they don’t have any control over the recommendation algorithm.

⭐️ The Weeknd may soon have more than 100m listeners on Spotify

It’s a mark of the rhythms of the streaming that a full year after The Weeknd released his latest album ‘Dawn FM’, his Spotify metrics are going from strength to strength rather than dropping off.

⭐️ Music Spending Is Hitting New Highs, DSPs Need To Catch Up

The time is right to experiment with ways to get artists more money

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