In just a couple months, Olivia Rodrigo has shattered multiple records with her breakout hit, “Driver’s License,” from scoring the biggest debut in Rolling Stone 100 chart history to netting the greatest first-day streams of any artist. So it’s fitting that “Driver’s License,” whose Canvas art on Spotify also garnered …
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Just around 10 million people speak isiZulu, a language out of South Africa. So how did a song in the little-known dialect become a hit with billions of people around the world? The song in question is “Jerusalema,” created by 24-year-old Limpopo native Master KG with the vocals of singer …
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Napster, the company that cultivated an era of music piracy and pushed the music industry into the digital era before becoming a paid streaming service, is once again entering a new era. London-based virtual reality concert streamer MelodyVR announced a surprise $70 million acquisition of the company on Tuesday, creating …
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When Amazon rolled out a standalone music-streaming service in 2016, the music business largely dismissed it as yet another Spotify clone, entering far too late in the game. But the e-commerce company’s efforts in music are quietly shaping up to be major drivers in the industry. Days after Amazon enlisted …
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Rita Ora remembers the first time she saw a photograph of Joni Mitchell. “I was like, ‘Who’s this awkward looking girl that’s got a guitar in her hand all the time?’” the English pop singer says in the latest episode of Spotify‘s Under Cover podcast. Ora was taken aback by …
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