Spotify removes top comedians’ content in royalty payments dispute

Girls On Top, made up of members from the agency’s roster.The new band is the sixth project group to be formed in the label’s history, an endeavour that began with SM The Ballad in 2010. That group featured members of TVXQ, Girls’ Generation and EXO.Girls On Top was announced earlier today (December 26) and features soloist BoA, Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon and Hyoyeon, Red Velvet’s Seulgi and Wendy, and aespa’s Winter and Karina.

Justin Bieber has become the first artist in Spotify history to cross 90 million monthly listeners on the streaming service.According to Chart Data, the pop star has reached 91million listeners per month, with Spotify currently showing the figure to be 91,824,133Ed Sheeran sits in the number two position with 80.5million listeners, while The Weeknd (78.1million), Ariana Grande (73.4million) and Dua Lipa (66.7million) round out the rest of the Top Five.The rest of the Top 10 features Adele

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.

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.

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.

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.