Spotify and Apple Music’s Newest Duel Has Nothing to Do With Music; Better Living Through Metadata

The two music-streaming companies are racing to corner the podcast market with investments and acquisitions, but it’s still anyone’s game.

I offer some pie-in-the-sky ideas for fixing music’s metadata problem. But, in a better world, who wears the metadata hat?

The music industry's physical product problems may be an indicator of an upheaval in store for the 3 major labels in the not-too-distant future.

I made a lot of enemies trying to make money by streaming live music. The better approach was to just let the music play.

Pickathon (August 1-4, 2019) has announced the premiere of the Pickathon All-Access Streaming Pass, enabling the world to intimately experience all of the special moments at what Pitchfork called "the most unique music festival" in the U.S.

¡Viva Latino! has been growing 5x times faster than any other Spotify playlist in its top 1000.

This will come as little surprise if you’ve watched a jazz artist at a recent festival in the UK and taken a look at the audience around you, but young listeners are flocking to the genre.

Canadian artist Leslie Feist (or rather: Feist) is the latest musician to launch her own podcast.

Calm is becoming quite the place for artists to release their music.

Swedish audio streaming platform Spotify was launched 13 years ago in 2006. As of now, it has 217 million active users, and 100 million paid subscribers.

Comcast users will soon be able to access their Amazon Music playlists with their voice remote.

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