ByteDance’s TikTok has announced that it will shut down the TikTok Music streaming service on November 28, which comes as the company has struggled to turn its success in marrying music and videos into a service that could take on the likes of Spotify and Google’s YouTube. “After this date, access to TikTok Music, including … Read more
Asake, a MOBO award-winning afrobeat artiste, has achieved a rare feat by selling out the 20,000-capacity O2 Arena, a UK icon, for the second time in two years. Asake first sold out the iconic venue in 2023 following the release of his sophomore album ‘Work of Art’ in a moment that announced his global ascension. … Read more
Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, recently halted plans to harvest data from European users to train its AI models after pressure from privacy regulators AFP A group of companies including Meta and Spotify blasted the European Union Thursday for its “fragmented and inconsistent” decision-making on data privacy and artificial intelligence (AI). The firms … Read more
Elon Musk’s relationship to Twitter advertisers over the past year can best be described as “adversarial,” but the Tesla CEO announced a new level of combativeness Thursday: He intends to take brands who took their ad spend away from the platform to court in hopes they’ll be criminally prosecuted for not paying him. Tesla’s Cybertruck … Read more
Picking and placing orchestral covers for the Netflix series is an intricate process, beginning with what Season 3 producer Jess Brownell estimates to be “a playlist of maybe 100 or 200 orchestral versions of pop songs” that – with input from directors, producers and Netflix – is trimmed down to a dozen or so stand-outs. … Read more
Nostalgia tours have come for millennials, and they’re they’re no longer confined to big cities. Halifax star Sarah McLachlan is touring North America this month to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her classic album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, while Belleville, Ont., rocker Avril Lavigne is in the midst of a “greatest hits” run celebrating her early 2000s … Read more
Christine Romero-Chan / Digital Trends Last month, Google rolled out a YouTube Music extension for Gemini. Now, it appears that Spotify is the next music streaming service to see Gemini support in the near future. What does the YouTube Music extension in Gemini do, exactly? Essentially, you can use it to find music, start radio … Read more
![Spotify Is Not Offering Refunds After It Bricks ‘The Car Thing’ [UPDATE]](https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fill,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200/1cd687917ac7d000ad3dcbd30e95ce83.webp "Spotify Is Not Offering Refunds After It Bricks ‘The Car Thing’ [UPDATE]")
Usually, when you buy a product, you expect to be able to continue using it even after the company stops selling it. Your car doesn’t immediately brick itself the moment production ends, after all. And yet, for the people who bought Spotify’s Car Thing, that’s exactly what’s happening. The streaming giant recently announced that after … Read more
Digital Trends There’s a good chance you use Spotify for your music streaming and podcast listening. There’s also a good chance you use the Spotify app on your Android phone. If so, you’ll soon notice that the app looks a bit different than usual. How so? The app icon no longer has its distinctive black … Read more
Your Spotify Premium account has served you well for many years, but you’ve recently gotten the bug for hi-res listening, so it’s off to Tidal for all things tunes! Or maybe you’re just trying to lighten the load when it comes time to pay for your monthly streaming subscriptions. Whatever the case may be, canceling … Read more
