Not everyone is buying it. Despite the study’s findings, “I don’t think hip-hop lyrics are any angrier,” says Dame Aubrey, director of A&R at CMG Records and Management, a music label that represents rappers Moneybagg Yo, BlocBoy JB and GloRilla. In any case, Aubrey says, the changes we hear are …
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A man in Denmark was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for using fake accounts to trick music streaming services into paying him 2 million Danish crowns ($290,000) in royalties. The unusual case reveals a weak point in the business model behind the largest company in the world. music …
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Spotify dominates the music industry. This becomes really obvious if you don’t use Spotify: you end up getting Spotify links and inevitably clicking on them all the time. It happens on social media, yes, but also in text exchanges with friends, in emails and direct messages. The idea is good; …
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Apple has a problem with Spotify, and this has just cost the iPhone maker a $2 billion fine from the European Commission. For years, the two companies have been at war over the streaming service. drove users away from Apple’s iTunes and accused the technology giant to exploit their dominance …
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LONDON (AP) — The European Union imposed its first antitrust sanction on Apple on Monday, fining the American technology giant almost $2 billion for unfairly favor your own streaming music service by banning rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps. …
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