{"id":20245,"date":"2017-07-14T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=20245"},"modified":"2018-08-09T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T21:06:20","slug":"news-roundup-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/news-roundup-26\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS ROUNDUP: What&#8217;s Up With Spotify + Soundcloud? &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-324x324.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-416x416.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/spotify-800x800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Are There Really Fake Artists On Spotify?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This mystery began when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/why-spotifys-fake-artists-problem-is-an-epidemic-literally\/\"><em>Music Business Weekly<\/em> <\/a>reported that a number of artists only seemed to exist on Spotify playlists &#8211; mostly the generic, mood-based ones like \u201cChill,\u201d \u201cFocus,\u201d \u201cSleep,\u201d etc. Together with <a href=\"http:\/\/musically.com\/2017\/07\/11\/spotify-fake-artists-traced-back-swedish-producers\/\"><em>Music Ally<\/em><\/a>, MBW discovered that the artists and producers credited to these songs are a few individuals who live in Stockholm, the Spotify main base. This situation brings up some important questions, like: is Spotify paying them directly to create these songs, even though a normal musician makes practically nothing from being on the app?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Is This The End Of Soundcloud?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Last week, the streaming service laid off nearly half their staff (some just weeks into the beginning of their careers there), with the company\u2019s future beyond 2017 unclear. Now it seems they may be folding much sooner, possibly within the next few months. <em>TechCrunch<\/em>\u00a0detailed the dire situation, which was then refuted by Soundcloud, and re-refuted by <em>TechCrunch<\/em>. You can read the contrasting statements <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/music\/news\/soundcloud-responds-to-techcrunch-article-claiming-it-is-almost-out-of-money-1202494837\/\">here<\/a>. And remember, we\u2019ll always have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2017\/04\/03\/bandcamp-artists-vs-soundcloud-artists-meme\">Bandcamp<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Other Highlights<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Watch another Kesha video, stream the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/07\/10\/534316416\/first-listen-waxahatchee-out-in-the-storm\">Waxahatchee album<\/a>, The Breeders are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/2017\/07\/the-breeders-fall-tour-dates\/\">going on tour<\/a>, major venus are <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/music\/news\/aeg-msg-turf-battle-heats-up-acts-that-play-la-forum-cannot-play-london-o2-arena-1202485038\/\">fighting over artists<\/a>, the Seattle grunge scene is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/grunge-era-musical-in-development-at-seattle-theater-w491442\">coming to Broadway<\/a>, check out Brittany Howard\u2019s new band Bermuda Triangle, speculate on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/politics\/7865933\/kid-rock-senate-not-a-hoax\">Kid Rock&#8217;s possible run for Senate<\/a>, &amp; remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kkiTeJ_fNpY&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Jet<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Waxahatchee &quot;Never Been Wrong&quot;\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cDaccHBAGcM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bermuda Triangle - Rosie - The Basement East - July 12, 2017\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YURRprMkB8M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kesha - Woman (Official Video) ft. 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This mystery began when Music Business Weekly reported that a number of artists only seemed to exist on Spotify playlists &#8211; mostly the generic, mood-based ones like \u201cChill,\u201d \u201cFocus,\u201d \u201cSleep,\u201d etc. Together with Music Ally, MBW discovered that the artists and producers credited to these songs are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":48406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,357],"tags":[6436,6437,4600,1132,4140,6435,6125,6434,1002,6030],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/logo-white-on-black-01.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20254,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions\/20254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}