Spotify is celebrating the fifth birthday of its 'Equal' initiative promoting women artists, songwriters and producers with a new podcast and some stats.

Music Ally chatted to Group Speed, the agency who worked with Australian electronic duo Breathe. on their debut album rollout. By treating five-year-old catalogue tracks as growth levers and ...

North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and ...

Mike Smith was indicted in 2024 after using AI and bots to generate and stream thousands of songs, siphoning millions of dollars away from recording artists.

Michael Smith, a 54-year-old North Carolina man whom federal prosecutors accused of defrauding music-streaming services with AI-generated songs, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit ...

An error or outage of some kind at Spotify is causing users with paying accounts to hear ad breaks while also showing that their Premium accounts are on the “Free” plan. Update 2: Spotify says this ...