Spotify’s recommendation system is a powerful gateway to new listeners, but only if you understand how it works. From Discovery Mode to playlist curation and algorithm signals, artists can actively ...

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Trumpet blares, fading sounds of heartbeats and a ringing alarm clock. These aren’t sound effects for a movie — rather, for music projects created by fifth graders in Evanston/Skokie School District ...

On a recent episode of The Ebro Show, host Ebro Darden proclaimed that “the algorithm” works against anyone who publicly feuds with certain figures, namely Drake and DJ Akademiks. “I’m letting y’all ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. I am useless without background music. A writer by day and an avid concertgoer by night, I relied for years on Spotify to provide my soundtrack ...

Ebro Says Booking Guests Is Harder Without Hot 97: 'People Are Acting Different' Ebro opens up about the challenges of booking guests in the digital era, saying artists and longtime contacts “act ...

He never misses a chance to show up his competition. 50 Cent claimed 164 million YouTube streams in March, topping the rapper charts. He and Snoop Dogg emphasized mutual respect, promising never to ...

You're responsible for your own Spotify algorithm now. On stage at SXSW, Spotify's co-CEO, Gustav Söderström, announced the Taste Profile feature, which allows users to personally customize exactly ...

Spotify was early to the algorithmically recommended music game. Now the company is testing a feature that lets listeners have more direct input over what Spotify recommends. The feature is called ...

At the SXSW conference on Friday, Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström announced a new feature, launching in beta, that will allow listeners for the first time to review and edit their Taste Profile, the ...

Get ready for music, laughs, and a quest that’s hilariously absurd — King Arthur and his knights are in town! From ATG San Francisco, Amanda Robles, who stars as The Lady of the Lake, and Major ...