Royalties earned by local artists on Spotify outpace the broader SA recorded music market’s 18% growth in streaming revenue.

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Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

The split-view Now Playing redesign that YouTube Music has been working on since last year is now widely rolling out. Update 4/23: This redesign is now seeing a second wave of availability. It should ...