Spotify may be losing one of its top execs. Rumor is Troy Carter, global head of creator services at the music streaming service, has his eye on a gig at Epic Records.
Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter III is considered by many to be a classic, and the record celebrated its 10th anniversary on Sunday. Spotify has tapped some of today’s Hip-Hop stars to recreate the unforgettable album cover which featured the Young Money boss as a baby complete with his array of face tattoos.
Spotify shook up the streaming music industry by electing to remove artists such as R. Kelly and XXXTentacion based on allegations of their conduct outside their respective careers. Although the move was largely celebrated, many fans and even the streaming service’s employees were at odds with the policy and the company has since said it […]
Top Dawg Entertainment is clearly the hottest Hip-Hop label around today, boasting a star-studded roster helmed by Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q, and Ab-Soul with SZA, SiR, Isiah Rashad, and Lance Skiiwalker making up its ranks. TDE President Punch says there’s new unreleased heat coming soon for fans via the label’s Spotify playlist channel.
R. Kelly may finally be getting ejected out of the paint after all. Spotify has just announced that it will be removing R. Kelly’s music from its playlists.
Spotify just gave users who don’t want to spend money on their premium service even more incentive to not sign up for one. Tuesday at an event at in NYC, the music streaming giant announced that users who prefer to use the service for free will receive more features that paid subscribers usually benefited from […]
In the battle for streaming supremacy, it looks like Spotify may have made a serious power move against their direct competitor Apple Music in luring away a key figure.
Janelle Monáe has earned the right to be considered as one of Black music’s most innovative artists, and that distinction has led to a new position she’s undertaking with Spotify. The streaming service has announced a new hub, Black History Is Happening Now and Monáe will lead the effort as its curator along with creating […]
Tuma Basa rose to become one of Hip-Hop’s most influential minds, using his experience in the business to curate the popular RapCaviar playlist for Spotify. Due to unspecified reasons, Basa has exited the company just as it announced that it’s taking the RapCaviar show on the road.
This is definitely not the news Spotify wanted to open up the new year with. The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Wixen Music Publishing filed the $1.6 billion lawsuit against the Stockholm-Sweden based streaming giant December 29th.
Spotify and its artfully curated playlist RapCaviar has helped transform how fans absorb music from their faves and expanding their growing platforms to an international audience. Last Thursday (Dec. 7) at the Brooklyn Museum, the streaming service launched its first annual RapCaviar Pantheon, which celebrated the careers of Metro Boomin, 21 Savage, and SZA in […]
The fallout from last Saturday’s (August 12) white nationalist rally continues as Spotify has become the latest high profile organization to renounce white supremacy and announced they’re pulling all racist content from their library.
