Mickey Shiloh knows that success comes in many forms and that when it comes to music there really isn’t a linear path. The Bay Area-born songwriter has been working since she was a teenager, writing hooks for everyone from Britney to Iggy Azalea, Teyana Taylor to Pitbull, Jason Derulo to J.Lo to Janet Jackson, all …
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Please allow ODIE to reintroduce himself. After releasing his well-received debut album, Analogue, in 2018, with its hit singles “North Face” and “Little Lies,” the genre-bending Canadian-born and California-based singer-songwriter is readying his sophomore album for release later this year. Speaking to Spotify for Artists from a Los Angeles recording studio, the 24-year-old artist promises …
Earlier today, at our Stream On livestream event, we announced our vision for the future of audio and set the stage for what we will be working on for the rest of the year. This is our chance to share a preview of the new features and programs we’re building for the more than one …
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Say hello to Noteable, Spotify’s new global home for songwriters, producers, and publishers. The work of songwriters, producers, and publishers informs so much of what we do at Spotify — with Noteable, we’ve created one central space for the community to learn about everything Spotify has to offer, find new opportunities, and collaborate with each …
Artists of Asian descent are thriving globally, making an outsize contribution to the overall musical landscape. To spotlight emerging stars of Asian descent, agnostic of genre, Spotify launched the Jasmine playlist — originally called “Asian Americans on the Rise” — in 2017. Curated by Ronny Ho, Spotify’s Head of Dance and Electronic Development, Jasmine’s mission …
Right now, Olivia Rodrigo is in the driver’s seat and the whole world is along for the ride. As of this writing, the 17-year-old singer-songwriter’s single “drivers license” has been No. 1 on the Global Weekly Top Songs Chart for three weeks in a row and has set the record for the most streams for …
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When I ask Charlie Ryder, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of Yumi Zouma, how the New Zealand-formed, critically-acclaimed alternative pop band produced an album during a global lockdown, he laughs and says, “The same way we’ve been doing it for the last seven years.” For Yumi Zouma, making music together while being physically apart is nothing new. …
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For musicians of all genres, representing their work and personas visually is as important as expressing themselves musically. Today, an ever-expanding digital toolbox has carved out unprecedented space for interdisciplinary relationships, which is exactly what 24-year-old Spotify RADAR artist Lous and The Yakuza was able to take advantage of through Canvas — the three to …
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For Leroy Moore, Jr., the Paralympic Games are a lot like a cypher — and he would know, given that he’s both a former Paralympian and a hip-hop poet and activist living with cerebral palsy. In 1988, Moore, then a 20-year-old cyclist sporting a mohawk, competed in the Paralympics in Seoul; this was a little …
