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Digital music and audio

July 2024

  • the Spotify logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen near a pair of earphones

    The Conversation
    Spotify’s new audiobook bundle may reduce music royalties and shortchange authors

    Millicent Weber for the Conversation
    Music artists say the bundle is ‘cheating’ the royalties system while authors have concerns about how streaming will affect how they’re paid and rights over their work

April 2024

  • BESTPIX - Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour - Singapore<br>SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - MARCH 02: EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO BOOK COVERS Taylor Swift performs during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at the National Stadium on March 02, 2024 in Singapore. (Photo by Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

    Taylor Swift hits 1bn Spotify streams in a week with Tortured Poets Department

    Swift’s new album breaks another streaming record after already becoming the platform’s most-streamed album in a day
  • Nothing Ear a review earbuds visible through the transparent lid of their charging case on a table.

    Nothing Ear (a) review: cheaper, smaller, longer-lasting earbuds

    Funky transparent design backed by good sound and noise cancelling make these budget buds winners
  • Sennheiser Momentum TW4 earbuds in case on a table.

    Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 4 review: best-sounding noise-cancelling earbuds

    Quality earbuds with improved Bluetooth, great battery life, good controls and future-proofed tech

March 2024

  • Damon Krukowski

    How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream?

    Damon Krukowski
  • Joni Mitchell performing at the Gershwin prize presentation to Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Washington DC, 20 March 2024.

    Joni Mitchell follows Neil Young in returning her music to Spotify

  • A person using DJ decks

    Swedish composer becomes Spotify’s most-famous musician you’ve never heard of

  • Neil Young pictured in 2016.

    Neil Young to return music to Spotify as he attacks ‘disinformation’ across streaming services

  • ‘The internet is an alien life form’: how David Bowie created a market for digital music

  • EU fines Apple €1.8bn over App Store restrictions on music streaming

February 2024

  • The Spotify app icon displayed on a smartphone

    Apple says Spotify wants ‘limitless’ access to its tools without paying

  • Two earbuds and Apple Music app logo

    Why is Apple facing a €500m fine from EU over music streaming?

  • the Apple app store icon

    Apple reportedly faces €500m fine from EU over music streaming access

  • Maria Schneider, press image 2020

    Jazz composer Maria Schneider: ‘David Bowie cracked me – maybe not in a good way’

  • Spotify swings to loss as it adds 200,000 audiobooks to paid service

  • Spotify signs new deal with Joe Rogan reportedly worth up to $250m

  • Spotify claims to have paid audiobook publishers ‘tens of millions’ in royalties

December 2023

  • Earphones and Spotify logo

    Spotify announces CFO to leave, days after he cashed in $9.3m in shares

  • A screen displays trading information for Spotify as a trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on 4 December.

    Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2m in shares after value surges on news of job cuts

November 2023

  • Alexis Petridis

    Spotify Wrapped is creepy, meaningless – and shows just how much data big tech has on you

    Alexis Petridis
    The annual summary of your listening habits has become a phenomenon – but aside from being a marketing wheeze, Wrapped doesn’t always reflect what we truly love
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