Spotify Removes Many Top Comedians From Service In Royalty Payments Dispute

The Duchess of Cambridge recognized those who lost loved ones and those who have struggled over the past two years as she introduced “Royal Carols: Together At Christmas”.

Ed Sheeran‘s ‘Shape Of You’ has become the first song to reach three billion streams on Spotify.The song, taken from the pop star’s third album ‘÷ (Divide)’, reached the milestone earlier today (December 22) – after initially being released on the streaming service back in January, 2017.Speaking on the achievement in a video shared by Spotify (see below), Sheeran said he couldn’t be more “chuffed” about the news, calling it, “absolutely insane”, before discussing the origin of the song.“[‘Shape

Disney has tapped Horacio Gutierrez — head of Global Affairs and chief legal officer at Spotify — as senior executive VP,  general counsel and secretary, succeeding longtime Disney veteran Alan Braverman who this summer announced plans to retiring after nearly two decades as legal chief.

Wall Street Journal, the catalog is worth around $50 million.“We are proud to continue working with and expand our long-standing relationship with BMG. This new deal ensures ZZ Top’s remarkable legacy will endure for generations to come,” ZZ Top manager Carl Stubner of Shelter Music Group said in a statement.ZZ Top – guitarist and vocalist Billy Gibbons, bassist, keys and vox Dusty Hill, and drummer Frank Beard – formed in the early 1970s, playing blues-influenced rock.

Barack Obama is sharing his favorite 2021 songs, and more!The 44th President of the United States unveiled his new Spotify playlist that includes GRAMMY winners galore. The list comes just after Obama released his favorite list of books and movies.

HBO won Television/Streaming Network of the Year, Warner Bros Pictures won Studio of the Year and Microsoft Studios/Xbox won Game Publisher of the Year on Tuesday at the Clio Entertainment awards.

The pressure continues to build on Spotify over the royalties it pays – or doesn’t – to comedians whose performances are on the streaming platform. Now comedian Lewis Black has asked that all his material be removed from the service until an ongoing royalty dispute with the wider comedy community is settled.This all relates to what royalties need to be paid whenever content is streamed on a platform like Spotify.

The Cavaliers rookie center and 7-footer Evan Mobley has had himself an amazing start to the 2021-22 NBA season and he is only getting better. So far Evan Mobley has only missed 4 games and the Cavaliers lost all 4 of those games proving that he is a very crucial part of the Cavaliers’ offense and defense.

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

The purge, which took place on Nov. 24, comes following a new push by comedians to get Spotify and other digital streaming companies to pay them royalties not just as performers, for which they already receive compensation, but also as the writers of the material.

Hundreds of comedians are getting sidelined on Spotify.

Royalty Brown is a little superstar model in the making! The 7-year-old daughter of Chris Brown and Nia Guzman showed off two different outfits from Milano Di Rouge while performing some cute modeling moves in an Instagram video shared on Thursday, December 2. Royalty first sported a fancy beige jacket over a graphic black T-shirt and black jeans.

“Top Gun: Maverick.”The Tom Cruise-led action flick is a follow-up to 1986’s “Top Gun” and will be released in May 2022 after months of delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.The new Barbie is based on the character, “Phoenix,” played by Monica Barbaro.

Bad Bunny took home the title as the most-streamed artist with over 9.1 billion streams.

Eminem has found one of his biggest fans in a sweet place.

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‘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