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Quick Take: Spotify’s Throwback Hub and the Future of the Album

Zach Fuller
Throwback Thursday, one of Spotify’s most popular features, has been expanded into a new Throwback hub. Launching initially with 30 playlists and described by Austin Daboh, Head of Music Culture & Editorial at Spotify, as being “a permanent home for our main nostalgia brand”, the announcement is a subtle yet defiant statement against the format playlists are set to usurp: the album.
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Apple’s Subscription Pivot

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Mark Mulligan
On Tuesday Apple announced its arrival on the world stage as a media company, using the lion’s share of its product keynote as the platform for a succession of super star actors, directors and other personalities to tell the story of their respective Apple original TV shows.
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AI and the Disruption of the Music Persona

Zach Fuller
Discussions on AI and music continue to grip the music industry, with fears we stand on the precipice of a post-musician world, yet in many ways we have been here before. History dictates that shifts in music composition are influenced more by the context in which it is consumed rather than the technology that creates it.
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