How can you watch any YouTube video regardless of what country you’re in? Read on to find out. In a dispute over licensing on the platform, YouTube disabled thousands of videos in Finland earlier this morning. A major performance rights organization …
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Taylor Swift Scores the Best-Selling Album of 2017 — Without Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube
Now what? Taylor Swift officially has the highest-selling album of the year — without any help from streaming platforms Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, and even YouTube. This isn’t how Spotify was hoping things would work out. But…
Taylor Swift Scores the Best-Selling Album of 2017 — Without Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube
Now what? Taylor Swift officially has the highest-selling album of the year — without any help from streaming platforms Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, and even YouTube. This isn’t how Spotify was hoping things would work out. But…
Forget SoundCloud, Musical.ly & YouTube: Spotlite Is the Next Talent Incubator
In some senses, future superstars don’t have to be ‘found’ anymore. SoundCloud propelled Post Malone and Kygo; Musical.ly gave us Baby Ariel and Anna Zak. Of course, it’s difficult for one platform to single-handedly deliver a brand-new artist. But t…
Apple Music Is (Still) Available in 59 Countries That Spotify Isn’t
Apple Music has rolled out their music streaming platform in 114 countries. You’ll only find Spotify in 60 countries. Tough choice to make? With the 2017 holiday season well underway, music fans may have an important choice to make. With the top two…
Two Weeks After Overdose, Lil Peep’s Family Already Cashing In
In less than two week’s Lil Peep’s family has already cashed in on the rapper’s legacy. For the week ending December 9th, Lil Peep landed on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single, ‘Awful Things.’ The track debuted at No. 79, marking the first time tha…
June 2017: Spotify Says Exclusives Are ‘Bad for the Industry’. Nov. 2017: Spotify Releases 19 Exclusive Songs
So what’s Spotify’s stance on exclusive streaming releases, anyway? Once upon a time, streaming services went to war with a lethal weapon: exclusive releases. Apple scored Chance the Rapper, Tidal had Kanye and Beyonce, and Spotify vowed t…
A Surprisingly Large Number of People Want to Ban Phones at Concerts
A strikingly large number of people now favor outright bans of phones at shows. But what about the ones that want to use them? We all know the problem really, really well. Phones in the air, filming entire concerts and making it hard to see the actual…
YouTube Adpocalypse II Update: 2 Million Videos Demonetized, Advertisers Bailing
Adpocalypse II is well underway, with YouTube racing to demonetize videos in an attempt to keep advertisers on its platform. One YouTube video shows an underage, scantily-dressed girl lying down next to her teddy bear and plush dolls. Among thousands o…
Bloomberg ‘Fake News’? Taylor Swift’s Reputation Still Isn’t On Streaming.
According to Bloomberg’s “sources,” Taylor Swift’s newest album, Reputation, would appear on streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. Three weeks have passed. What went wrong, exactly? Despite offering her entire back catalog on Spotify last…