Spotify is crashing with other iPhone apps, Facebook glitch suspected

DEALSKobalt has signed a global publishing deal with the estate of late jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, who was – says the music firm’s Merril Wasserman – “a jazz powerhouse with a sound that inspired and influenced many other musicians. It is an honour to represent his catalogue and carry out his legacy with his great estate”.Concord Music Publishing and Creative Titans have announced a new co-publishing deal with songwriter Nia-V.

Music streaming giant Spotify said Wednesday that its second-quarter loss widened as recent stock gains led to higher payroll taxes, but its user base grew to 138 million premium, or paid, subscribers and 299 million total active monthly users as of the end of June. That was up 8 million premium users from 130 million as of the end of March and up 13 million total users from 286 million, coming in at the high end of management's forecasts.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorSpotify founder-CEO Daniel Ek made a three-pronged pitch Wednesday to Howard Stern, the massively popular host whose multi-year contract with satellite broadcaster SiriusXM expires at year end.Asked why Stern might prefer Spotify to SiriusXM, Ek said, “I can’t really speak to Howard Stern specifically” but then expatiated on the “more and more great creators around the world that are turning to streaming service Spotify” for its scale, global reach and

Taylor Swift’s new album Folklore secured the biggest album debut for a female artist in Spotify history upon its release on Friday (July 24, 2020).The You Need To Calm Down singer dropped the record after surprising fans with news of an impending release the day prior, and despite the star deviating with a more alternative sound than her previous pop offerings, the album proved an instant hit with fans.Folklore launched with approximately 80 million global Spotify streams, earning the star the

“Folklore” is breaking the Internet.Since dropping last Thursday at midnight, “Folklore” was streamed 80.6 million times on Spotify, breaking the Swedish company’s record for first-day album streams by a female artist, it said.

Zayn Malik‘s fans have successfully rallied Spotify to remove an Islamophobic song that takes aim at the singer.The former One Direction star is the subject of a track called ‘Zayn Did 9/11’, which was recorded by parody artists Una Kompton in 2017.After realising that it was being hosted on the streaming platform, fans campaigned for its removal using the hashtag #RemoveItForZayn.The song aims a series of offensive digs at the singer, who is a non-practicing Muslim, and also makes light of the

Sangeeta Pillai, Sound Up UK 2018 winner and host of Masala Podcast said: “Sound Up gave me the confidence to create Masala Podcast. Before then, I literally knew nothing about podcasting – it felt too technical and overwhelming for me.

Spotify podcast later in July.Set to arrive on July 29, The Michelle Obama Podcast comes after the former First Lady and her husband, Barack Obama, inked a multi-year podcast deal with the streaming giant.The series “features deep dives with loved ones – family, friends and colleagues – on the relationships in our lives that make us who we are,” Spotify said in a statement.Obama added: “In other episodes, we’ll be talking about the challenges and the joys of being a parent or a spouse, the

Michelle Obama will let her own voice be heard on a new podcast.

Michelle Obama is to host her own Spotify podcast, interviewing famous names and opinion formers.The Michelle Obama Podcast will feature the former U.S.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorSpotify and other apps on Apple’s iOS operating system crashed for thousands of users Friday morning with outages caused by errors in Facebook’s Software Development Kit, or SKD.DownDetector.com, a site that tracks app outages, reported thousands of crashes on Spotify when users attempted to log in and stream music on iPhones and iPads.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn the wee hours of Friday, Twitter lit up with people enraged that they couldn’t listen to the just-released posthumous Juice WRLD album and other new releases on Spotify. While the streaming giant sent out its customary “Something’s out of tune.

Several popular apps, like Spotify, Tinder and Pinterest, are currently broken on iOS devices.

Spotify users have been reportedly unable to access their favourite tunes due to a bug in the app. Thousands of people flooded Down Detector with reports of issues with the popular music streaming service at around 11am this morning.

announced the launch of new songwriter pages and "Written By" playlists to highlight the behind-the-scenes work of music's biggest hitmakers, from Meghan Trainor to Missy Elliott and Justin Tranter.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: While fans of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina just learned that series will end its Netflix run later this year, Archie Comics devotees will be cheered by a new first look deal made by Spotify to create an original series of podcasts based on the Archie Comics universe.

Tonight's (July 9) virtual fundraiser for presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will not only feature an all-star roster of artists including Diplo, DJ D-Nice, Jermaine Dupri and DJ Cassidy, but the Sen. Kamala Harris-hosted event will also launch a new evolving Spotify playlist of curated songs on the former Vice President's Spotify channel called "Get Up, Stand Up: Songs for the Soul of America."