Tag: playlists

Apple Music and Amazon Music aren't just streaming services: they're streaming services belonging to companies whose voice assistants and smart speakers are going to be fielding LOTS of requests for Christmas music in the...

A new 'Curated by Peloton' shelf within Spotify's Workout Hub will feature playlists created by Peloton instructors, based on the classes offered on its service.

Humble Angel Records is the streaming-focused imprint launched by former Playlists·net and WMG executive Kieron Donoghue in 2018. Now the company is diversifying beyond simply releasing tracks by releasing an app. Available...

Amazon Music launched its 'Country Heat' playlist in October 2016, as one of its flagship curation brands. Five years on, and it has reached an important milestone. No, not playlisting more than 2,000 tracks about whisky...

‘Lorem’ made its name as one of Spotify’s first ‘genreless’ playlists. Now it’s spinning off a genreless live talk-show on the company’s Greenroom app. It’s one of five new shows that Spotify is launching on...

It's only for premium subscribers (which is interesting in itself) and can be toggled on or off for each user-created playlist.

It's five years since Spotify launched its personalised 'Release Radar' playlist, serving up new releases to listeners from their liked/followed artists every Friday.

With more than 28.6 million followers, Today's Top Hits is Spotify's biggest playlist by some distance. It has generated more than 1.4bn hours of listening and 27.3bn streams to date according to Spotify, having playlisted...

Dance label Ministry of Sound is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and it has just announced a partnership with streaming service Mixcloud. Ministry says it will be “sharing their extensive archive of curated...

Spotify launched its Fresh Finds family of playlists in 2016, using data from music blogs and tastemakers' listening on its own service to highlight artists and tracks in the early stages of breaking through. More than...

Don’t You Want Me. Joe Le Taxi. Wicked Game. Africa. Orinoco Flow. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me). Tainted Love. Buffalo Stance. That’s your day’s worth of earworms covered for readers who grew...

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Apple Music was developing some of its flagship playlists into live concerts. While awaiting the return of physical gigs in many parts of the world, it’s been exploring how that strategy...