Drake alleged in a court filing Monday that Universal Music Group falsely pumped up the popularity on Spotify and other streaming services of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” a song that viciously attacked Drake — with lyrics like “Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles” — amid a bitter feud between the two hip-hop superstars.
Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris is shaping up to be a costly move for the pop superstar.
Federal prosecutors have charged a North Carolina musician with wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly using bot accounts and hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to fraudulently earn over $10 million in royalties from streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music.
Spotify has deleted the pages of several Russian musicians who support Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, according to a report.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has raked in nearly $119 million in a stock sale after recently overseeing the layoff of 1,500 employees — a reduction that Ek himself acknowledged created a “significant” challenge” for the streaming company.
Lara Trump is releasing a single on Friday, titled “Anything is Possible,” which she wrote and produced along with some industry heavy hitters.
In a landmark decision, the European Union has imposed a hefty $2 billion fine on tech giant Apple for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over competitors like Spotify.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not delivering on their $100 million Netflix deal after the implosion of their $20 million Spotify deal.
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Narcissism, has had her podcast demoted from Spotify to some company in Minnesota.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says Apple’s recently proposed changes to its App Store policies represent a “new low” for the tech giant. The Spotify boss, a constant critic of Apple’s stranglehold on the marketplace for apps and the “tax” it places on in-app purchases, calls Apple’s proposed changes “extortion, plain and simple.”
Twister Sister singer Dee Snider said Spotify CEO Daniel Ek “should be taken out and shot” over what he believes is an unfair compensation for artists’ music.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been named as showbusiness’ biggest losers of 2023, after their belittling on South Park, being dropped from their $20 million Spotify deal and endless “whiny” self-regarding projects.
Spotify has announced layoffs impacting 17 percent of its employees, its third layoff of 2023. The Company is desperately chasing profitability, with CEO Daniel Ek explaining, “As we’ve grown, we’ve moved too far away from this core principle of resourcefulness.”
According to a information revealed in Epic Games’ ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Google, the internet giant made a secret agreement with Spotify allowing the streaming music platform to bypass most charges related to the Android app store.
Spotify is stalling on publishing Lara Trump’s second single, after the streaming giant suppressed visibility of her first single released last month.
Spotify has unveiled a new feature, powered by ChatGPT developer OpenAI, that clones podcasters’ voices using AI. The company claims the technology will be used for translation purposes, allowing the voices of podcasters to present their shows in languages they don’t speak.
A top Hollywood talent agent is the latest prominent figure to publicly ridicule Meghan Markle following her disastrous split from Spotify, saying the Duchess of Sussex is “not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent.”
Kelly Osbourne gleefully tore into Prince Harry as a “fucking twat” who’s always “whining” and “complaining.”
Various reports are credibly-accusing Meghan Markle of faking some of the interviews on her now-canceled Spotify podcast Archetypes.
Spotify executives like Bill Simmons are ripping into Harry and Meghan as “lazy” and “f*cking grifters.”
Spotify is in financial trouble, so it’s dropping the dead weight, and there’s not much out there that’s dead weightier than these two crybabies.
Spotify is reportedly developing AI tools capable of creating targeted ads using its podcast hosts’ voices, as revealed by Bill Simmons, the founder of The Ringer, a Spotify-owned podcast network.
Streaming music giant Spotify has taken action against AI music start-up Boomy, removing tens of thousands of songs from its platform amid growing concerns over streaming fraud and clutter.
Former first lady Michelle Obama is launching a new podcast series with Audible based on her recent book, ‘The Light We Carry.’
Music streaming giant Spotify recently announced plans to lay off six percent of its workforce. The cuts will impact almost 600 workers as many other internet power players make significant staff cuts as well.
Spotify and eight other app developers and associations have sent a letter to Margrethe Vestager, the executive vice president of the EU Commission, urging her to take legal action against Apple’s app distribution methods. The letter states that “Apple benefits from a monopoly position over its mobile ecosystem and extracts exorbitant rents from app developers who have no choice but to remain on the App Store to reach European consumers.”
Spotify’s CEO said the company won’t remove Kanye West’s music from its platform despite mounting pressure to do so from a growing number of corporate leaders and news media outlets.
Meghan Markle’s podcasting debut has seen her show shoot to the top of the Spotify rankings, unseating Joe Rogan from first place.
Meghan Markle’s debut podcast released Tuesday, tied to her agreement with streaming giant Spotify and reportedly worth $25 million, drew an underwhelming response from critics and some members of the public alike.
Meghan Markle kicked off her new Spotify podcast series “Archetypes” on Tuesday with a feminist rant, complaining that ambition has become a “terrible, terrible” thing for women.
Barack and Michelle Obama are expanding their media empire by teaming up with Amazon’s Audible in a multi-year deal that will see the former first couple create podcasts and other audio content for the platform following their departure from Spotify.
Music and podcast streaming service Spotify recently announced the formation of a “Safety Advisory Council” to provide third-party input on issues including “hate speech”, disinformation, and extremism. The move comes after an ongoing backlash against the platform for not censoring Joe Rogan enough to satisfy leftists.
After signing an exclusive podcast deal with Spotify in 2019, the Obamas will reportedly be leaving the platform after their deal ends in October.
Meghan Markle has reportedly filed an application to trademark the centuries old word “archetypes” ahead the launch of her upcoming podcast.
The fallout from Will Smith physically assaulting Chris Rock at the Oscars will impact more than just Smith’s Hollywood career. Corporate partners who have allied themselves with Smith and his charitable foundation now face brand safety concerns over the actor’s newly toxic public image.
Podcast giant Joe Rogan recently stated that he will happily leave Spotify, abandoning his $200 million deal with the woke tech company, if he has to censor his thoughts and “walk on eggshells.”
Director Ava DuVernay is the latest entertainment industry figure to cut ties with Spotify, reportedly ending a first-look deal between the streaming audio company and her production company, Array.
Not all of rock star Neil Young’s music has been removed from Spotify after most of his work was pulled from the music streaming platform in protest of podcaster Joe Rogan.
The UFC announced on Friday that Joe Rogan would not be on the broadcast team Saturday night for UFC 271 in Houston, Texas.
Jon Stewart has come to the defense of Joe Rogan yet again, saying comments labeled as “misinformation” can often prove to be correct, as was the case with the Iraq War.
