When it comes to music streaming subscriptions, Spotify has the lion’s share of the market. According to Digital Music News, the Swedish streamer occupies a little over a third of the U.S. market, and ...

For most college students, and most Americans, Spotify is both a household name and an integral part of the music listening experience. Yet it has only existed for about two decades, making it a ...

Liz Pelly is a textbook example of a digital native. As a teenager in the early 2000s on Long Island’s South Shore, she found a regional community of fellow pop-punk and emo fans through message ...

Each December, journalist Liz Pelly observes Spotify Wrapped day with a mix of horror and hope. For the past decade or so, Pelly has been writing critical essays and investigations into Spotify and ...

Critiques of technology often downplay, deny, or ignore the advantages that tech firms offer to their users. Take Mood Machine, Liz Pelly's book assailing the audio streaming giant Spotify. Some of ...

Most of us use Spotify. Even more of us use Spotify on a daily basis. Whether it’s the free version or the premium – or even better, the student premium which college students get for a cheaper value ...

The streaming service has completely changed what it means to make and listen to music. What can be done to reverse its enormous influence? There’s a playlist on Spotify, curated by the platform’s ...

“Frictionless” is one of those tech-world ideals that sounds more promising than it actually is. What if you could press a button and get all the music in the world? And what if that music were ...

Let’s say a band self-releases an album on Spotify that garners 100,000 streams in one month. That band, we’ll call them Fatty Smith, includes a vocalist, drummer, bassist, and guitarist, who each ...

Each December, journalist Liz Pelly observes Spotify Wrapped day with a mix of horror and hope. For the past decade or so, Pelly has been writing critical essays and investigations into Spotify and ...