Adele Asks Spotify to Remove ‘Shuffle’ Button From Her Albums, and It Does — Sometimes?

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhen the 2022 Grammy nominations were announced late last month, many people were surprised to see ABBA’s first song in nearly 40 years, “I Still Have Faith in You,” as a nominee for Record of the Year.They shouldn’t have been: ABBA are one of the most popular, influential and successful groups in the history of the world.

Heating up. Adele and Rich Paul‘s relationship is getting more and more serious—but are they planning on tying the knot together anytime soon?

Spotify has removed the work of hundreds of comedians, including John Mulaney, Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart, amid a new fight over royalty payments.As reported by The Wall Street Journal, a number of high-profile comics are pursuing royalty payments for jokes they’ve written when they’re played on the radio, as well as on digital services like Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, and SiriusXM.Global rights administrator Spoken Giants, who work to ensure that entertainers are properly compensated for

John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart are among the big name comedians whose work has been removed from streaming service Spotify in a fight over royalty payments.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSpotify has unveiled its annual 2021 Wrapped campaign — where users can see the music they listened to the most all year — and with that comes the top artists, albums, songs, playlists and podcasts on the world’s largest streaming service, with more than 381 million total users.The full charts are below, but first, some stats:Globally speaking, with more than 9.1 billion streams this year, Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny is Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2021,

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAdele has announced an exclusive residency in the Colosseum of Las Vegas’ famed Caesars Palace Hotel beginning Friday January 21, 2022. Titled “Weekends With Adele,” the singer will perform two shows each weekend through Saturday April 16, 2022 (see full list of dates below) for a total of 12 weeks.

Spotify‘s CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in artificial intelligence defence technology has been met with backlash by artists and users on the streaming platform.Ek announced earlier this month, that he was investing 100million euros (£85.2 million) into defence company Helsing and he was joining the board.The company plans to use artificial intelligence to support militaries in battlefield assessment operations, reports Mixmag.The AI software can apparently recognise patterns from camera, thermal

If you’re going to interview Adele, you best come prepared.

Adele has a confidante and supporter in Drake.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTo the surprise of absolutely no one, Adele’s “30” is now the top-selling album of 2021 — and it achieved that feat in just three days.According to initial reports to MRC Data via Billboard, the album, which was released at 12 a.m.

Adele took to Twitter to thank Spotify for bending the rules in order to adapt to her new record, “30.” The singer thanked the streaming company for listening to her and removing the “shuffle” setting as the app’s default.Adele calls relationship with Rich Paul “incredible” and “openhearted”New Music Friday: the biggest releases from Adele, Anitta, Anuel AA, and moreA post shared by Adele (@adele)On Saturday, records listened on Spotify no longer were on the shuffle setting on default, making it

she tweeted at the music app on Friday: “We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason.”“Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended.

If you’re going to interview Adele, you best come prepared.

Dundee singer Be Charlotte has backed Adele's call for Spotify to remove the shuffle button from album playback, amid hopes that the platform will do more to engage with artists in future.

Spotify has finally given albums a proper play button for its Premium subscribers. At bloody last.

tweet. “We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason.

Adele asked Spotify to ensure listeners hear the tracks on her new album in the correct order, and the streaming service agreed.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUPDATED: As streaming and other digital formats have made the music industry more song-based after decades of being centered around albums, there has been much talk about the “death of the album” and the consequent loss of a complete artistic statement that comes with it.Well, Adele has tackled that issue head-on by asking Spotify to remove the “shuffle” button from album pages in order to preserve the artist’s intention, saying the songs are placed in a certain

Adele is making some changes at Spotify!