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Down with Spotify! These 6 independent music streaming services want a better experience for musicians and listeners alike

Spotify might have over 700 million customers around the world, but it has its share of enemies as well. The anti-Spotify ...
Dallas Observer

Sick of Spotify? These Are the Best Alternative Streaming Platforms

Apple Music Per-Stream Royalties: $0.0080 Per Stream Apple Music is the third-biggest music streaming app behind Spotify and YouTube Music, but it also pays artists almost three times as much as ...
NPR

AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it?

It sounds like a joke, or a bad episode of Black Mirror. A band of four guys with shaggy hair released two albums' worth of generic psych-rock songs back-to-back. The songs ended up on Spotify users' ...
Variety

The Music Industry’s New Problem May Have an Old Cause: Piracy

With the rise of streaming, music piracy has gone from shattering the industry to a blip on its radar Now data from MUSO suggests music piracy is adapting as stream rippers become more popular While ...
The Next Web

A viral band on Spotify is probably AI — but there’s no label to tell you

AI slop songs are flooding Spotify — and the latest hit is by an indie rock band called The Velvet Sundown. The track’s success has intensified the ongoing debate on whether or not music streaming ...