Streaming & Stress; Music Discovery for Internet Nerds; New Spotify Tool for Crowdsourcing Song, Album Data

For listeners, the world of streaming music should feel a little bit like utopia — a magical place where we can access millions of songs instantly and effortlessly. So why is everybody so freaked out about it?

7 hacks to find hidden gems: To be a music fan in the digital age is to gorge on a Vegas buffet and never feel sick. There is so much music at our fingertips — and yet we seem to be fixated on the same-old stuff.

On Monday, the company released a new tool for desktop users called Line-In that gives music lovers the opportunity to make suggestions for artists and individual songs and albums.

Spotify Technology plans to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange the week of April 2, according to people with knowledge of the matter, giving the company weeks to prepare for an unconventional debut.

There’s already a couple of powerful search engines for music: they’re called Google and YouTube, and they’ve sparked the odd controversy.

As the founder of Playlists.net and subsequently a playlists/streaming-focused executive at Warner Music, Kieron Donoghue knows a thing or two.

71 million subscribers is a big deal, and it gives CEO Daniel Ek lots of options.

Liz Pelly’s recent article for The Baffler, “The Problem with Muzak,” bemoans music journalism’s embrace of Spotify. Algorithmically fueled, mood-based playlists such as “Ambient Chill,” she argues, are nothing more than “emotional wallpaper” for the distracted, disengaged masses.

A new set of data from Nielsen has revealed that the average US dweller is listening to a massive amount of audio on weekly basis, although not all of it seems to be coming from sources which you might expect.

John Hancock and Spotify are giving runners a new way to push through their finish line.

‘User-centric’ streaming payouts refers to a proposed system where the royalties generated by someone’s subscription would be divided only between the artists that they listen to.

TuneGO, a music platform that connects independent artists with a global community of music fans and industry professionals, is now offering a song review service.

While subscription revenues represented 90% of total revenue at the company since 2016 (subscribers grew 46% last year to 71 million), Spotify is still focused on growing its ad-supported channel as “a strong and viable stand-alone product with considerable long-term opportunity for growth.”