Heardle, a music-guessing app spun-off from The New York Times’ Wordle game, is set to shut down less than ten months after its acquisition by Spotify. Similar to the popular word game, Heardle challenges players to identify a song every day for points. Spotify purchased the game in July 2022,
Spotify has decided to shut down its live audio streaming app, Spotify Live. Spotify Live, which functioned as a separate app to Spotify, allowed users to stream and interact with live audio, including podcasts and music. According to MusicAlly, who broke the story yesterday, the company believes that there is
Spotify, the popular music streaming service, has faced criticism from artists and other members of the music industry for reducing royalty payments on songs played through its Discovery feed. Under the expanded plans of its Discovery Mode feature, Spotify will decrease royalty payments for streams in exchange for increased exposure
Spotify has launched a new feature within its app called DJ which aims to provide a personalised experience for users by using AI-powered technology. The feature will offer a curated line-up of music and commentary around the tracks chosen for each specific user. It also comes with a “stunningly realistic
Conservative MP Damian Collins has voiced concerns over the control that TikTok allegedly has on British musicians. Collins, a former Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy, shared his views on the app with The Telegraph after TikTok launched a trial in Australia last month that limited the amount of
Popular video sharing app TikTok piloted an experiment this month aimed to investigate the importance of music to its platform and users. The experiment, which targeted TikTok’s Australian market specifically, limited the number of songs available to users for use in videos. Speaking to Bloomberg, TikTok said of the experiment,
Announced last week by Universal, the new partnership between the world’s biggest music publisher and streaming service TIDAL has been formed with the intention to research and devise a new streaming model that better supports the value of artists and their work, while encouraging more engagement from subscribers. Head of
Spotify added 10 million new Premium subscribers to its platform in the final three months of 2022, bringing the total number of Premium users for the streaming titan to 205 MILLION. The Q4 stats far exceed those projected for the streaming service, who gained a total of 33 million new
Spotify has introduced a new playlist feature called ‘Playlist In A Bottle.’ Based on the concept of a time capsule, the feature allows users to create playlists that are then sealed for 12 months. With this new feature, users are encouraged to select songs based on their current mood, for
According to a recent investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), streaming services and associated record labels are not making excess profits, and can therefore not afford to pay artists more money. The CMA, who acts as the UK’s competition watchdog, will take no further action against streaming
