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A former Spotify employee told Pelly that as of 2017, playlist editors in the company could monitor analytics for "music commissioned to fit a certain playlist/mood with improved margins" and that those same playlist editors were pressured to populate Spotify's curated playlists with PFC content.
Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2008 launch, [1] mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.
Spotify allows users to add local audio files for music not in its catalog into the user's library through Spotify's desktop application, and then allows users to synchronize those music files to Spotify's mobile apps or other computers over the same Wi-Fi network as the primary computer by creating a Spotify playlist, and adding those local ...
Blinding Lights" by the Weeknd is currently the most streamed song on Spotify, with over four billion streams. The following lists contain the most streamed songs and albums as well as chart records on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of March 2025, "Blinding Lights" (2019) by Canadian singer the Weeknd is the
South Korean boy band BTS is the most-streamed group in Spotify's history. [1] The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of February 2024, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist, [2] and Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history.
No. of artists Notes License Full free access ACRCloud: Music recognition & audio based music retrieval ~40,000,000 [47] Commercially available with SDKs, APIs for file scanning, airplay monitoring, shazam-liked features Free trial available in 15 days Gracenote: Identification service for CDs and other media. ~100,000,000 [48] ~8,000,000 [48]
Affleck created a Spotify playlist entitled 1984 that consisted all of the 1980s music that inspired him during the filming. [5] He sent it to the music supervisor Andrea von Foerster, who felt it as "literally her childhood" as the selection includes classic hits such as "Africa" by Toto, "Candy Girl" by New Edition and "Jump" by Van Halen, and claiming that she was not just using music to ...
After Spotify's launch, new competing services began to emerge in the North American market, including Beats Music—which was backed by headphone maker Beats Electronics, Microsoft Groove Music Pass (formerly Xbox Music), [45] Amazon Music Unlimited, [46] and Google Play Music All-Access (a branch of a service also offering downloads and a ...