Spotify Adds Hundreds More Songwriter Pages and 'Written By' Playlists

Also Read: Barack Obama Joins Michelle Obama's Spotify Podcast as Inaugural GuestAfter warning the service had seen a “modest” drop in consumption due to the coronavirus pandemic at the end of the first quarter, Spotify on Wednesday, in its letter to shareholders, said “global consumption hours have recovered to pre-COVID levels.”As mentioned above, Spotify’s stock price dropped to $254.20 in premarket trading — about $45 below its all-time high, hit earlier this month.“Our business performed

Also Read: Bret Easton Ellis and Irvine Welsh Are Developing a Drama Series Based on American Tabloids“The new feature allows select creators to bring both audio and video content to Spotify, enabling them to connect more meaningfully with their listeners, expand viewership, and deepen audience engagement,” Spotify said in a statement Tuesday.YouTube already offers this capability, and podcast creators have long been using it as a way to court fringe listeners who are new to the audio-only

Dade Hayes Finance EditorIn a major change to Netflix’s C-suite, content chief Ted Sarandos has been named co-CEO and Chief Product Officer Greg Peters has been named to the additional role of COO.Reed Hastings, who co-founded the company and has served as CEO for most of its 23 years of existence, will be co-CEO with Sarandos.After joining the company in 2000, Sarandos has spearheaded the programming effort and personified the company’s disruptive approach to releasing TV and film.“Ted has been

Colin Jost is hoping Bill Murray will forgive him for the secret he spilled in his new book.

Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren has corrected a number of Twitter users who have confused her for Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.Warren, who has written classic songs including Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” and LeAnn Rimes’s “How Do I Live?”, went viral yesterday (14 July) due to her uncanny resemblance to the socialite.A Twitter user shared a clip in which Mariah Carey appears to toss Warren out of the way at a red carpet event, but incorrectly wrote that it

More than half a million viewers tuned into Billboard Argentina's YouTube channel Thursday (July 9) for the "Argentina en la Casa" Online Festival, organized to help the country's music industry workers.

Chad Michael Murray shows off his muscular physique while going shirtless at the beach on Thursday (July 9) in Malibu, Calif.

The story goes that Bill Murray and screenwriter Howard Franklin developed their adaptation of Jay Cronley’s novel “Quick Change” – released in theaters thirty years ago this week – with Jonathan Demme in mind to direct, but the filmmaker turned it down to make “The Silence of the Lambs.” (That abrupt transition mostly serves as a reminder of what a shift “Silence” was for Demme; “Quick Change” is much more in the mold of his earlier ‘80s films like “Married to the Mob” and “Something Wild.”)

Mariah Carey fans will be getting a long-awaited peek behind the curtain of her illustrious life with an upcoming memoir.The Meaning of Mariah Carey, written by the chanteuse with Michaela Angela Davis will be arriving on September 29, 2020.

Megan Thee Stallion and Fetty Wap, has signed rising Argentinian singer-songwriter Maria Becerra.A promising act in the urban-pop scene in her native Argentina, the 20-year-old singer becomes the first Latin artist to join the indie label's roster.