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Should Spotify payments go to the musicians you actually listen to? Toggle share menu Advertisement Should Spotify payments go to the musicians you actually listen to? Unless you’re Drake or Ariana Grande, the odds of surviving as a music artist can verge on the absurd. Here’s why. A smartphone and a headset are seen in front of a screen projection of Spotify logo, in this picture illustration taken April 1, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustrati...

PARIS, Feb 19 — Streaming companies such as Spotify and Deezer are credited with rescuing the music industry from piracy, but while label executives rejoice in billion-dollar revenues, even top-level artists are struggling to survive. For musicians, the workings of the streaming economy can be...

MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Europe conference will be hosted in Belfast for the next three years, highlighting the city’s position as a rapidly growing tech hub. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review magazine hosts an annual conference in Europe to explore recent advances in the world of tech and has chosen the Northern Ireland capital, Belfast as host for the next three years. The EmTech Europe conference brings together researchers, leaders, CEOs, and tech enthus...

ROAN MOUNTAIN - Joseph B. Gray, age 89, of Roan Mountain, Tennessee went home to join his beloved wife and his Lord on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 from the Sycamore Shoals Hospital. Joseph was born in Roan Mountain to the late Thomas Marion Gray, Sr. and Bertha Mae Archer Gray. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, Evelyn Johnson Gray; a son, Donald Gray; four brothers, Carroll Gray and wife Eloise, Tom Gray and wife Alma, Dana Gray and Paul Gray; one si...

MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Europe to be held in the city for the next three years

Should Spotify payments go to artists you actually listen to?

Tom Gray, of the band Gomez, is lobbying the UK government to regulate music streaming.

P Davidson Falkirk THE SNP drive to overwhelmingly win the 2021 Holyrood election is more important than the egos and aspirations of any individual or of any internal factions. There has been a lot that has happened with the SNP that should not have happened. That is not to take sides but to emphasise the point that the collective aim of winning this election is the most important cause, and the reason for the SNP’s existence. Every other issue, irrespective how any individual may feel,...

Chocolates for Easter, sauces from South Korea and plant-based meatballs all feature in this roundup of vegan and plant-based product launches from food manufacturers. As Veganuary winds down for another year, we take a look at some of the latest offerings from producers for consumers looking to cut animal products from their diets. The event represents a month-long pledge by consumers to cut meat from their diets and eat purely vegan diets for the month of January. ...

This article is more than 2 months old The present streaming model makes artists acutely vulnerable to shocks like the pandemic. Something’s got to change Tim Burgess is lead singer of the Charlatans ‘As 2020 limped into this year, British artists found out that the Brexit deal didn’t carve out protection for us.’ Audience members at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP ‘As 2020 limped into this year, British artists found out that the Brexit deal didn’t c...