Spotify Dives Into Audiobooks With Acquisition of Findaway

Spotify Wrapped is here, enabling users to look at their most-streamed artists, songs, albums, genres, playlists and podcasts over the course of 2021.The feature, which launched today (December 1), has some new functions this year including ‘2021: The Movie’, which allows users to pair their top songs with classic scenes from a film “that’s all about you”, and ‘Your Audio Aura’, where an aura expert visualises a listener’s audio aura based on their top two music moods.Elsewhere, ‘Playing Cards’

2021 was a big year for music.

Spotify Wrapped, the streaming giant's yearly list of each user's top listens and the top songs and artists of the year, launched today.

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Spotify has shared details of its most-streamed acts in the period January 1 to November 27, 2021, with Bad Bunny topping the list for the second year running.The Puerto Rican artist’s songs were streamed a total of 9.1billion times compared with 8.3billion in 2020.

Spotify has released its annual Wrapped campaign today, giving fans a way to see their most-streamed artists, songs, albums and podcasts.

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,

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

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.

Spotify has taken on a suggestion from Adele and changed its default setting, which shuffles album tracks in random order.The streaming platform confirmed on Saturday (November 20) that it had agreed to Adele’s request, which the singer initially made so that her latest album ’30’ would be played in the order that it was curated.“This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry!” Adele tweeted.

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSpotify is finally introducing one of its most-requested features: real-time lyrics that display during song playback, available to users of its free and subscription tiers globally.Lyrics will be available in-app for many of the tracks in Spotify’s library, but not all of them. The lyrics are provided by Italy-based Musixmatch, which says its catalog has “over 8 million” lyrics.

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JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot is moving into the audio space.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBad Robot, J.J. Abrams’ production company, is diving into podcasts in an exclusive, multiyear first-look deal with audio-streaming giant Spotify.Bad Robot Audio will be led by Christina Choi (pictured above), formerly with Audible and Spotify, who joins as head of podcasts at Bad Robot.