Arts Mar 21 Musicians push back on dwindling payments from streaming services By Geoff Bennett, Jackson Hudgins
Arts Mar 26 Watch 7:42 Podcast industry faces challenges after explosive growth An estimated 505 million people will listen to podcasts in 2024, the most in the medium’s short history. Since the term podcast was coined in 2004, the format has grown into a $25 billion industry. But the industry's expansion has… By Jeffrey Brown, Connor Seitchik
Arts Sep 11 Watch 6:07 How Dolby Atmos promises to change how people experience music and movies Many of the major music streaming services are now offering spatial music playlists with more immersive versions of some of your favorite songs. The Dolby Atmos Music format is heralded as important an innovation as the advent of stereo recordings… By Mike Cerre, Anne Azzi Davenport
Arts Apr 28 ‘We’re just taking space.’ How Arabic music is breaking through to new audiences Until recently, Arab music had been used by American and European studios and popular media in a way that “was very orientalist,” playing on racist tropes, according to writer and music journalist Danny Hajjar. By Deema Zein, Yasmeen Sami Alamiri
Arts Feb 05 Watch 5:39 How streaming platforms are changing the way we listen to music Several of the nominees at this year’s Grammy Awards rose to fame and popularity on music streaming platforms like Spotify and YouTube, and social media apps like TikTok. Ann Powers, critic and correspondent for NPR Music, joins Stephanie Sy to… By Stephanie Sy, Andrew Corkery
Jan 23 How many tech industry jobs have been cut in the past few months? By Associated Press In just the past month there have been about 50,000 job cuts across the technology sector. Here's a look at some of the companies that have announced layoffs so far. Continue reading
Jan 23 Spotify becomes latest tech company to announce layoffs By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it’s cutting 6% of its global workforce, or about 600 jobs. Continue reading
Nov 29 Apple Music announces top music, listener data for 2022 “Stay,” the smash hit by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber topped Apple Music's global song chart in 2022 as the giant music streamer released its end-of-year lists and provided listeners with data on their own most listened-to tunes. Continue reading
Feb 08 Neil Young urges Spotify employees to leave before it ‘eats up your soul’ By Associated Press Neil Young isn't satisfied with urging his fellow musicians to join him in taking their music off the streaming service Spotify. Now he wants company employees to quit their jobs before it "eats up your soul."… Continue reading
Feb 07 Watch 4:37 News Wrap: Tropical cyclone leaves 60,0000 people homeless in Madagascar In our news wrap Monday, more than 60,000 people in Madagascar are homeless and 21 are dead after a tropical cyclone struck, a second man will plead guilty to plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over COVID restrictions, Chinese… Continue watching