During its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Spotify again teased the upcoming release of a new product that will allow music fans to leverage AI to make covers and remixes of artists’ music, with the artists’ consent. The company also announced that Merlin, a licensing partner for independent labels and distributors, has now joined Universal
All the big entertainment apps are starting to look the same and that’s no coincidence. For a decade, the platforms fought over who would dominate a single format: music, video, podcasts, audiobooks. Now, powered by AI, they’re fighting for something bigger: becoming the default app when you have free time, no matter what form the
Spotify, it’s fair That is to say, it has made some strange decisions in the user experience. There are multiple panels in the app and the layout is confusing. The service constantly tracks your activity. The app also seems to have a strange hostility towards playing actual albums. All of this works to create an
a sunday At night, in the middle of Tompkins Square Park in New York City’s East Village, hundreds of people gather in front of a giant paper mache face of a woman wearing a crown. She is the backdrop of a play, her body is made up of curtains that look like a dress but
Top Kalshi Trader Caleb Davies often talks to the press about how prediction markets help him make money. The Minneapolis-based IT worker estimates he has earned $1.2 million in total across different prediction platforms, with $414,000 in earnings on Kalshi cultural markets alone. He especially likes betting on music charts, because he carefully analyzes Spotify
Watch out, Suno. Spotify on Thursday announced it has partnered with Universal Music Group (UMG) to allow fans to use generative AI technology to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs. The tool will launch as a paid add-on available only to Spotify’s Premium subscribers and will offer a revenue share with participating artists