Streaming Is Taking Over Pop, but It’s F...

Everywhere you turn, online or on TV, there’s Druski. In what may be the comedian's most revealing interview to date, he explains how his Atlanta upbringing led him to a unique galaxy of collaborators — Justin Bieber, Timothée Chalamet, Kai Cenat, Drake, Kevin Hart and corporate ... Show More

The country superstar Luke Combs sits down with Joe and Jon ahead of the release of his sixth album, “The Way I Am.” Combs opens up about his journey to Nashville success (including “healthy competition” with Morgan Wallen and Zach Bryan) and his mission to make huge hits again a ... Show More

On Sunday night, Bad Bunny performed a detail-packed Super Bowl halftime show that celebrated Latino heritage and featured appearances by Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin. Immediately after the show, Jon and Joe went live on YouTube to share their real-time reactions and answer questio ... Show More

Streaming hasn't just changed the way we listen to music, it's changed the way that pop music sounds. After years of losses due to the death of the CD and the rise of file sharing, the music industry has finally found a profitable business in streaming services. Streaming has ove ... Show More

Not so long ago the music industry was threatened like it had never been before as online piracy tore into the profit margins of record labels the world over. Often hailed as the saviour, Spotify stepped in and offered audiences a new way of enjoying their favourite artists and w ... Show More

Spotify is the world’s biggest music streamer, but rarely turns a profit and just cut 17 percent of its workforce. Its business model looks increasingly precarious. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here. 

Streaming feels like it's both at its height and on a precipice. Musicians are fed up at getting paid fractions of a penny, and the whole business model seems precarious. Switched On Pop co-host Charlie Harding was talking about the challenges for streaming future with my friend ... Show More

TikTok launches a music streaming service in Brazil and Indonesia; Spotify is removing App Store payment option for legacy subscribers; Twitter threatens to sue Meta over its new Threads app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Spotify, a company worth $23 billion, has come out on top of the streaming wars, and yet it’s never made a profit. Daniel Cohen joins Malin to discuss the history of the platform and how it's changed the way music is made and listened to, and the strangeness of streaming culture, ... Show More

At the start of October some users of a music-streaming platform found that their accounts were playing songs against their wishes. Artists like the Bergenulo Five and DJ Bruej were streamed thousands of times, with Spotify users claiming the music was forced onto them. Apart fro ... Show More

YouNower, YouTuber Diegosaurs discusses live streaming platforms like Periscope and YouNow, the new music service Tidal and how YouTube is starting a ad-free, paid subscription service. 

On this weeks episode of Zoe's Podcast we dive deep into the actions of spotify and the issues it caused to its artists as well as less mainstream creators. Do artists deserve proper compensation for their hard work producing music? What happened to Lady Gaga? tune in to find out ... Show More

The third and final Spotify Exclusive Discord podcast. The boys round it off with some quick questions including some weird ones towards the end...