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Songza was a free music streaming and recommendation service for Internet users in the United States and Canada.. Stating that its playlists are made by music experts, the service would recommend its users on various playlists based on time of day and mood or activity.
Below is a table of online music databases that are largely free of charge. Many of the sites provide a specialized service or focus on a particular music genre . Some of these operate as an online music store or purchase referral service in some capacity.
Some services offer non-free options in the style of a digital music store. For a list of online music stores that provide a means of purchasing and downloading music as files of some sort, see comparison of digital music stores. Many sites from both of these categories offer services similar to an online music database.
In Spotify's apps, music can be browsed or searched for via various parameters, such as artist, album, genre, playlist, or record label. Users can create, edit and share playlists, share tracks on social media, and make playlists with other users. Spotify provides access to over 100 million songs, 5 million podcasts, and 4 billion playlists.
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.
The playlists were the first posted to the White House's official Spotify account. [1] Other playlists Obama has shared include a Christmas music playlist released on Christmas Eve 2015 [2] and a workout playlist commissioned by Wired in October 2016. [3] [4] In 2018, the president's wife Michelle Obama released a Valentine's Day playlist ...
As music storage and playback using personal computers became common, the term "playlist" was adopted by various media player software programs intended to organize and control music on a PC. Such playlists may be defined, stored, and selected to run either in sequence or if a random playlist function is selected, in a random order.
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 876 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 137 have surpassed two billion, 17 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.