Metal Media 0 Charlie Benante Slams Music Streaming: “We Get Taken Advantage of Most Out of Any Industry” November 26th, 2024 at 9:00am Haela Huntress He’s partially right.
This Sucks 0 Now Hardcore Bands Are Getting Bombarded by Spotify’s AI Doppelgängers September 6th, 2024 at 2:09pm Hesher Keenan When will it stop?
This Sucks 0 A.I. Generated Metalcore is Flooding Spotify and Targeting Some Major Bands Along the Way August 27th, 2024 at 4:35pm Hesher Keenan Knew this was coming…
News 0 Prepare Your Wallets: Spotify is Increasing Its Monthly Price June 3rd, 2024 at 12:24pm Hesher Keenan Everything’s getting a little more expensive these days.
News 0 Spotify’s Changing Royalty Rates Could Lose Songwriters and Publishers Millions May 9th, 2024 at 1:51pm Hesher Keenan It’s hard out there for a musician, man.
News 0 Some Asshats on Spotify Are Stealing a Young Musician’s Work April 25th, 2024 at 4:58pm Hesher Keenan This is happening far too often.
News 0 Bill Introduced to Increase Streaming Payments for Musicians March 7th, 2024 at 10:24am Hesher Keenan Artists should be paid more, the bill contends.
News 0 Check out HEALTH’s Cover of Deftones’ “Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)” February 14th, 2024 at 1:12pm Mandy Scythe HEALTH and Deftones? Yes please.
News 0 Most of the Music on Streaming Services was Played Less Than 1,000 Times Last Year January 16th, 2024 at 9:29am Mandy Scythe This is why your band isn’t making any money.
F-F-F-Feudin' 0 Dee Snider Really Doesn’t Like Spotify’s CEO December 29th, 2023 at 9:09am Mandy Scythe He’s not gonna take it anymore.
News 0 Spotify Boots Their CFO After Controversial Layoffs December 11th, 2023 at 2:53pm Mandy Scythe Things just keep getting messier.
News 0 Spotify Lays Off 17% of Workforce, CEO Explains It’s for Typically Cynical Corporate Reasons December 5th, 2023 at 10:23am Mandy Scythe The layoffs come just a week after Spotify Wrapped dropped.
News 0 Spotify Might Stop Paying Lesser Known Artists Because Of Course They Would October 26th, 2023 at 4:08pm Hesher Keenan It’s gettin’ harder out there for artists.
News 0 Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” Reaches 1 Billion Stream Milestone on Spotify September 1st, 2023 at 9:39am Hesher Keenan Pretty good for a song James didn’t even want to show anyone.
News 0 Research Suggests Listening to Metal While Studying Makes You Dumberer June 29th, 2023 at 11:12am Hesher Keenan Put down the Sanguisugabogg and get back to summer school.
News 0 Study: Want to Make an Average Wage Off Spotify Streams? Move to Mississippi April 28th, 2023 at 12:59pm Hesher Keenan It’s not easy at all.
New Stuff 0 Spotify will Give You More Exposure—If You’re OK with Lower Streaming Rates March 12th, 2023 at 9:00am Mandy Scythe Spotify has a new scheme to get you even more exposure. Unfortunately it will come at the expense of lower royalties.
Black Collar Workers 0 It Took 10 Years, But Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” Hit a Billion Streams on Spotify January 2nd, 2023 at 9:03am Hesher Keenan The Black Album keeps on rollin’
Metal Tech 0 It’s Not Your Fault Nobody Cares About Your Band on Spotify November 2nd, 2022 at 9:48am Hesher Keenan Might as well be streaming into the void.
Pummeling Politics 0 Spotify Pulls Service from Russia March 25th, 2022 at 2:29pm Emperor Rhombus The company cites Russia’s new censorship laws and the safety of its staff.
