A data analysis of 30,000 Spotify songs, combined with insights into the platform’s algorithm and Discovery Mode, shows how audio traits, listener engagement, and timing can influence reach. For R&B, ...

The Amazon Fire Tablet offers a variety of ways to learn, communicate, and stay entertained. These free apps add to the user ...

We've had the legend of Robert Johnson wrong this whole time. The deal he made at the crossroads wasn't with some mythical devil at all. The truth is he sold his songs — i.e. his soul — to a predatory ...

Trumpet blares, fading sounds of heartbeats and a ringing alarm clock. These aren’t sound effects for a movie — rather, for music projects created by fifth graders in Evanston/Skokie School District ...

The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was. Essentially, the firm creates networks of social media pages (typically on TikTok) ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. I am useless without background music. A writer by day and an avid concertgoer by night, I relied for years on Spotify to provide my soundtrack ...

Ebro Says Booking Guests Is Harder Without Hot 97: 'People Are Acting Different' Ebro opens up about the challenges of booking guests in the digital era, saying artists and longtime contacts “act ...

Comedy and skits have been ingrained in Puscifer’s DNA since the beginning, with Keenan channelling his teenage love of Benny Hill and Monty Python, a warped sense of humour aided and abetted by later ...

Spotify users will soon be able to see and shape the listening data that drives their personalized recommendations through a new feature the company is calling ‘Taste Profile’. The new feature was ...

You're responsible for your own Spotify algorithm now. On stage at SXSW, Spotify's co-CEO, Gustav Söderström, announced the Taste Profile feature, which allows users to personally customize exactly ...

Spotify was early to the algorithmically recommended music game. Now the company is testing a feature that lets listeners have more direct input over what Spotify recommends. The feature is called ...