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Bad Bunny most-streamed artist on Spotify for second year running
The Puerto Rican star beats Taylor Swift and Drake, while Olivia Rodrigo continues meteoric rise as Spotify and Apple Music announce stats
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
01, Dec, 2021 @2:05 PM
Paul McCartney and Kate Bush lead call for change to music streaming payments
Open letter to Boris Johnson signed by 156 musicians including Led Zeppelin and Annie Lennox aims to reword 1988 Copyright Act
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
20, Apr, 2021 @1:25 PM
The music streaming debate: what the artists, songwriters and industry insiders say
The Guardian has talked to 25 figures from the music world ahead of publication of a parliamentary report
Lanre Bakare
10, Apr, 2021 @7:00 AM
'Spotify are selling adverts, not music': how to stream ethically
Major services pay musicians as little as £0.004 per stream, a rate it’s impossible to live on. What other options are there?
Rhian Jones
16, Jan, 2021 @8:00 AM
Musicians fear reprisals for speaking to MPs' streaming inquiry
Select committee warns music platforms against interference after witnesses say careers put at risk
Alex Hern and Lanre Bakare
01, Dec, 2020 @6:36 PM
MPs to examine impact of streaming on future of music industry
Culture committee chair Julian Knight said it would investigate whether the business models used by major streaming platforms are fair to writers and performers
Laura Snapes
15, Oct, 2020 @11:58 AM
Germany's biggest artists demand labels pay greater streaming revenues
Rammstein and Helene Fischer are demanding a greater slice of the digital pie – though such issues are often resolved in secret, limiting real change
Eamonn Forde
28, Jan, 2020 @2:08 PM
Top of the flops: is streaming rendering the charts obsolete?
Record companies might disagree, but exclusives, eligibility algorithms, bundling and ‘streaming farms’ are threatening to ruin the Top 40
Eamonn Forde
17, Jan, 2020 @1:00 PM
Drake and Ed Sheeran most streamed artists on Spotify this decade
Sheeran’s Shape of You is most streamed song, with 2.3bn plays, while Drake is most popular artist with 28bn streams
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
03, Dec, 2019 @9:06 AM
Britons break £100m-a-week digital streaming milestone
Digital video continues to power entertainment growth with gaming spend slightly up
Mark Sweney
08, Aug, 2019 @1:09 PM
iTunes is over: what this means for you
Will my iPod still work? What if I use Windows? Don’t worry – the closure of Apple’s music app will not bulldoze your library
Alex Hern
04, Jun, 2019 @12:40 PM
Apple's 30% app store commission unfair, Spotify claims
Music service files complaint with European commission over subscription ‘tax’
Mark Sweney
13, Mar, 2019 @2:30 PM
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