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Hello, everyone. Welcome to our special program here on cnn, the color of covid. Im don lemon in new york. And im van jones in los angeles. You know, this pandemic is devastating not just the health of people of color, its also destroying our wealth with layoffs. We got Small Businesses going under. Government aid is just not getting to us and thats why were here tonight. We want to discuss what this virus is doing in total to black and brown americans and also to offer some hope. We have a whole lot to talk about, van. And i dont want to make this only about numbers because that takes the hum...

Recently published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, this research found that independent-label music and female artists

Stream weavers: The musicians’ dilemma in Spotify’s pay-to-play plan January 19, 2021 | 12:02 am By John Hawkins, Ben Freyens and Michael James Walsh Spotify offered the promise that, in the age of digital downloads, all artists would get paid for their music, and some would get paid a lot. Lorde and Billie Eilish showed what was possible. Lorde was just 16 when, in 2012, she uploaded her debut EP to SoundCloud. A few months later, Sean Parker (of Napster and Facebook fame) put her first single — “Royals” — on his popular Spotify Hipster International playlist. T...

Spotify enthusiastically promoted Ocean Eyes on its Today’s Top Hits playlist. She is now the youngest artist with a billion streams to her name, and Spotify’s most-streamed female artist for the past two years. The new hit squad Buda Mendes/Getty Images Appearing on a prominent Spotify playlist is therefore a big deal. Economists Luis Aguiar and Joel Waldfogel calculated (in 2018) that a song appearing on Today’s Top Hits was worth about 20 million extra streams and $159,905 (US$116,000) to $224,694 (US$163,000) in royalty payments. That was when Today’s Top Hits had about 1...

John Hawkins and Ben Freyens and Michael James Walsh January 7, 2021 Source: Unsplash/sgcdesignco. Spotify offered the promise that, in the age of digital downloads, all artists would get paid for their music, and some would get paid a lot. Lorde and Billie Eilish showed what was possible. Lorde was just 16 when, in 2012, she uploaded her debut EP to SoundCloud. A few months later, Sean Parker (of Napster and Facebook fame) put her first single, Royals, on his popular Spotify Hipster International playlist. The song has sold more than 10 million copies. Eilish’s rags-to-riches story is a...