Streaming Wars
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Cole Bennett on the End of SoundCloud Rap: It’s “No Longer a Thing”
“I don’t think anyone coming out now is a SoundCloud rapper.”
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Spotify for Artists Program Says 10,000 Song Submissions Have Been Selected for Playlists
These numbers are exciting for indie acts, but they’re also a bit misleading.
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Chance The Rapper Missed Out on $20 Million Apple Music Deal
“If [‘Coloring Book’] was [finished] on time, I would’ve got 20 million.”
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Trying to Make Sense of the Double Album in the Streaming Era
The double album might seem counterintuitive to the world of streaming, but artists like Drake are proving it still has a place.
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Hit Songwriter Shaun Frank on the Reality of Streaming: “The Best Model Right Now Is to Be the Artist”
Despite a new ruling to increase songwriters’ streaming pay by nearly 50%, they’re still drawing the short end of the artistic stick.
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Drake’s “God’s Plan” Breaks US Spotify Record for Most Streams in One Day
Maybe it was… God’s plan?
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Russ After Passing 1.1 Billion Spotify Streams: “A Trillion is Possible”
“I wrote, produced, mixed, mastered, and engineered one billion streams on Spotify.”
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273 Hip-Hop and R&B Artists Ranked by Monthly Spotify Listeners (January 2018)
From Post Malone to Young Nudy, here’s every hip-hop artist over 1 million monthly listeners, ranked.
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Joey Bada$$’s Debut Mixtape ‘1999’ Will Be Added to Streaming Services
“I’ve heard the prayers.”
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Independent Label Owner Criticizes Spotify for Only Pushing “Vanilla” Music
“If Spotify is just feeding easy music to everybody, where does the art form go?”
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Hip-Hop Is the Most-Streamed Genre on Spotify Globally, Up 74% Year Over Year
But nobody had a better streaming year on Spotify than Ed Sheeran.
