7 people on why they quit music streaming platforms

From poor pay for artists to general algorithm fatigue, dissatisfaction with mainstream streaming services has been mounting for some time. We spoke to seven people who decided to quit them for good. 

Spotify Unwrapped: how the streaming service’s end of year campaign has highlighted its bot problem

Spotify Wrapped has been met with equal parts joy and ire this year. But the year-end results have also highlighted another problem for Spotify: bots.

Supporting Indies in the Age of Streaming: A New Year’s Resolution

2017 revealed a striking conformity among our online listening habits – isn’t it time we did more to support independent artists and labels?

GEMA content now available on Youtube Germany

Following a seven year block on tracks that come under GEMA’s protection, Youtube users in…

ANOHNI calls out Apple Music, says they are “McDonalds of tech”

ANOHNI has criticised the streaming service, saying, “The income streams of musicians have all been…

SoundCloud may sell their business for one billion dollars

The German streaming service are apparently looking into various options including a sale of the…

SoundCloud have improved their suggested autoplay feature

SoundCloud have finally come up with an algorithm that stops those random jams from messing…

Jeffrey Lewis shares streaming royalties

The singer estimates he makes 0.00275 per listen Anti-folk singer songwriter Jeffrey Lewis has posted…

MIA shares new single Borders

The artwork we shared yesterday is for a new MIA song called Borders and you…

WeTransfer introduces new streaming player

The Dutch file-sharing service are to announce plans for a new music player at an event…

METARATR lets you rate all the unheard songs on SoundCloud

A new site called METARATR uses a patented “shit – spectacular” scale to unearth hidden…

Beggars Group made £3.8m profit in 2014

The parent company that distributes stuff from 4AD, Rough Trade and XL Recordings has seen a drop in cash from 2013

Prince shares new single Stare via Spotify

You can stream Prince’s Stare exclusively on Spotify After pulling his entire catalogue from all…

Music streams in the UK have increased by 80 percent since last year

Music streaming in the UK has hit an all time high According to new statistics…

Anton Newcombe hassled by Apple

They’ve threatened to take his music off iTunes Anton Newcombe has taken to Twitter to…

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Apple subject to conspiracy investigation

The tech multinational may already be conspiring against other streaming services Unless you’ve been hiding under…