Talking Heads’ David Byrne has posted another of his playlists, this one titled “I Am My Own Algorithm.” Byrne writes: Here’s recent stuff that’s in my current playlist. Not everything is current, but ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a data analyst, marketer and founder of Westcott Multimedia. A few years ago I sat down with Spotify’s then-VP of Content and ...

From June 2020 to June 2021, YouTube paid more than $4 billion to the music industry, the company announced this month -- a much-increased sum from the world's biggest video platform where product… By ...

Engineer Ari Vaniderstine tweeted a link to a Glitch project called Nelson this morning, which is a browser application that lets Spotify users fiddle with various inputs in the recommendation API and ...

Most independent rappers don’t fail because the music is bad. They fail because they don’t understand the first 24 hours.

Today, the algorithmically-generated daylist Spotify provided for me was “road trip revival afternoon.” I hate driving and have never willingly taken a road trip, but I identify with the vibe which, ...