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Spotify reveals the songs that came out on top for music lovers this summer, with Major Lazer’s ‘Lean On’ (feat. MÃ˜ and DJ Snake) taking the number 1 spot, globally. Ranking in second place globally is OMI’s ‘Cheerleader’, with Wiz Khalifa’s ‘See You Again’ rounding out the top three.

Ed Sheeran has topped the list of the top 25 most influential young artists under the age of 25 who are taking the music industry by storm.

Spotify is going through a painful breakup with Apple Music coming along and offering something that it can’t … Taylor Swift.

Just as AC/DC and Dr. Dre embrace streaming, Prince has decided to scale back.

AC/DC are putting more than a toe into the waters of the internet.

Spotify reveals its picks for the top songs that are set to be the soundtrack of your summer, leading with three songs that are poised to be summer smashes in the UK.

‘I started this company to help the music industry, not get vilified by them,’ Spotify founder Daniel Ek tells Billboard in its latest cover story. He’s referring to the many outspoken critics of Spotify, including Taylor Swift.

Evidence that streaming is crippling music sales in the past year has been revealed in the end of year report by Nielsen Music.

Pink Floyd are registering record streaming figures for Spotify but the surprise is the listeners are a lot younger than you would expect.

Ed Sheeran ‘x’ has broken Spotify records for first week streaming.

Bette Midler is the latest artist to accuse streaming services Spotify and Pandora of ripping off artists.

Spotify rolls out the red carpet this Oscars’ weekend to reveal the most popular movie tracks from past 12 months.

Spotify plays in the 24 hours following the Grammy Awards have registered huge increases for the performers.

Abba gave England a Swedish flavoured soundtrack on New Year’s Eve.

Wham’s classic ‘Last Christmas’ was the most streamed Christmas song of 2013 but Michael Buble owned the Top 10 with only Mariah Carey and The Pgues also getting a look-in.

Led Zeopelin will stream on Spotify. Spotify has achieved something that no other streaming service has managed to do, obtain the rights to stream the music of Led Zeppelin.

Spotify have released their streaming data for 2013, showing the year’s most streamed artists in Australia and the rest of the world.

It only took fans four days to get Pink Floyd’s entire catalogue on the Spotify service.

Pink Floyd has been traditionally reluctant to have their music available via most new media sources. They were late in adding their music to download sites and, for a time, demanded that only full album downloads be made available stopping fans from cherry picking their favorite tracks.

The new world of on-line streaming is being recognized by the music industry as a new source of income but the artists that support those companies are lagging behind in compensation.

Spotify has today revealed Richard Marx’s Right Here Waiting as the UK’s most popular love song ahead of Valentine’s Day.

With the eagerly-awaited GRAMMY awards airing this Sunday, Spotify looked at song and album streams to predict which nominees would walk away with the coveted gilded gramophones if it were up to Spotify users.

The management for Metallica are spinning the numbers released by Billboard on Metallica’s album sales after they put their music on Spotify.

Spotify and Metallica have announced that all music spanning the band’s 30-year history is now available on Spotify.

Spotify is about to test its ability to break an unknown act with the exclusive release of Sweden’s Cazzette.

Rumours are intensifying around the likelihood of Apple introducing an ad-supported, web-based radio service into the already busy online streaming market by March next year.