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Spotify on Wednesday announced the launch of a new feature that allows users to take more control over their recommendations. The service will now let users exclude certain tracks from influencing their taste profile. This taste profile refers to streamers’ sense of your personal musical taste and interests, and it drives Spotify’s recommendations, including your Discovery Weekly, Home page selections, …

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has announced that he’s stepping down as CEO, two decades after founding the music streaming service. Ek will transition to an executive chairman role at the company on January 1st, 2026, with Spotify co-presidents Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström set to step in as co-CEOs. “As Executive Chairman, I will spend more of my time on …

Taylor Swift; Spotify Swifties, get ready to step into the life of a showgirl. Spotify is celebrating Taylor Swift’s new album with a three-day activation at High Line Nine in New York City, and it’s free and open to all fans from Sept. 30 through Oct. 2 — the day before the record’s Oct. 3 release date. Page Six got a …

Alphabet’s YouTube (GOOGL) (GOOG) has launched a new experiment that puts AI at the center of its music app. The program, called YouTube Labs, will serve as a space to test AI tools. The first feature is an AI music host named Beyond the Beat. It adds commentary, trivia, and short stories during radio mixes and playlists on YouTube Music. …

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority Back in 2009, I was one of the lucky few to have an invite to Spotify’s UK launch program, when the future of music discovery was bright and exciting, unlike today’s bleak abyss of arist impoverishment and algorithm-induced repetition. How it’s taken fourteen years for Spotify Lossless to finally arrive on the scene is anyone’s …

NEED TO KNOW Spotify is hosting an immersive pop-up experience in New York City to celebrate Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl The Life of a Showgirl: A Spotify Experience will go down from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 in New York City The Life of a Showgirl comes out on Friday, Oct. 3 It’s almost time for Taylor …

The future of the music industry is being written, and we believe that aggressively protecting against the worst parts of Gen AI is essential to enabling its potential for artists and producers. We envision a future where artists and producers are in control of how or if they incorporate AI into their creative processes. As always, we leave those creative …

As AI music generators like Suno and Udio make it easy to churn out passable music, streamers like Spotify are getting flooded with AI-generated content, leaving audiences and artists alike to wonder what is “real” music anymore. On Thursday, Spotify announced new policies that attempt to tamp down on three problems the platform has with AI: slop, impersonation, and disclosing …

Artists are leaving Spotify to protest CEO’s military AI investments  The Washington Post Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing Among 1,200 Industry Names Rejecting Israeli Film Boycott in New Open Letter: It ‘Advocates’ for the ‘Erasure of Art’  Variety The Spotify Boycott: AI Ethics and Music Industry Reckoning  AI Magazine ‘Some Artists Blur Their Identity,’ as the World Turns a Deaf Ear to …

Spotify now directly integrates with desktop DJ software from rekordbox, Serato, and djay, the streaming service announced on Wednesday. Users will be able to access their entire libraries and playlists within these programs, making it faster and easier to create sets from playlists and blend tracks. “You can effortlessly mix songs from Spotify using supported DJ software, curating your sets to build …