Technology | The Guardian US4d ago
Spotify and Universal Music agree deal to let subscribers create AI remixes https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/21/spotify-and-universal-music-agree-deal-to-let-subscribers-create-ai-remixes #Spotify #AiArtificialIntelligence #Computing #UniversalMusic #DigitalMusicAndAudio #Music #Technology #MusicStreaming
Spotify and Universal Music agree deal to let subscribers create AI remixes

Licensing agreement will allow listeners to use AI to create content on streaming platform for first time

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Culture | The Guardian USApr 30
Spotify rolls out ‘Verified’ badge to distinguish human artists from AI https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/spotify-verified-badge-human-artists-from-ai #Spotify #AiArtificialIntelligence #DigitalMusicAndAudio #Technology #Music #Culture #UsNews
Spotify rolls out ‘Verified’ badge to distinguish human artists from AI

Green checkmark will appear on artist profiles to signal they meet the platform’s standard for authenticity

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World news | The GuardianJan 16
Partly AI-generated folk-pop hit barred from Sweden’s official charts https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/16/partly-ai-generated-folk-pop-hit-barred-from-swedens-official-charts #AiArtificialIntelligence #Spotify #DigitalMusicAndAudio #Sweden #Technology #Europe
Partly AI-generated folk-pop hit barred from Sweden’s official charts

Song that topped Swedish Spotify rankings ruled ineligible after elements of song revealed to be partly AI-made

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Opinion | The Guardian USDec 26
The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2025 | First Dog on the Moon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/gallery/2025/dec/26/the-best-of-first-dog-on-the-moon-cartoons-2025 #Spotify #SocialMediaBan #JeffBezos #Internet #DigitalMusicAndAudio #Technology #ArtificialIntelligenceAi
The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2025

From Moo Deng’s birthday to how to leave Spotify, revisit five of the best strips by the Guardian Australia cartoonist

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Technology | The Guardian USDec 23
Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/22/activist-group-says-it-has-scraped-86m-music-files-from-spotify #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Digitalmusicandaudio #Technology #Computing #Worldnews #Internet #Spotify #Piracy #Media
Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify

Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata

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Culture | The Guardian USDec 10
‘We are truly doomed’: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard despair at AI clone appearing on Spotify https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/10/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-despair-at-ai-clone-appearing-on-spotify #KingGizzardandtheLizardWizard #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Digitalmusicandaudio #Musicindustry #Australianews #Psychedelia #Popandrock #Culture #Spotify #Music
‘We are truly doomed’: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard despair at AI clone appearing on Spotify

Australian psych-rockers, who removed their music from Spotify in protest against the streaming service, lament the appearance of AI band King Lizard Wizard

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Technology | The Guardian USDec 5
I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/05/i-spent-hours-listening-to-sabrina-carpenter-this-year-so-why-do-i-have-a-spotify-listening-age-of-86 #Digitalmusicandaudio #Spotify #Culture #Music
I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?

Many users of the app were shocked, this week, by this addition to the Spotify Wrapped roundup – especially twentysomethings who were judged to be 100

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Culture | The Guardian USDec 3
Spotify Wrapped is taking over our feeds, but you don’t have outsource your relationship with music to AI | Liz Pelly https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/03/spotify-wrapped-ai-create-your-own-playlists #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Digitalmusicandaudio #Socialmedia #Spotify #Culture #Music
This Spotify Wrapped season, don’t outsource your love of music to AI

The streamer’s annual charts are just another version of the tech that’s alienating us from our inner lives. Hold on to your musical memories and reclaim ownership of your taste

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Technology | The Guardian USOct 16, 2025
Spotify partnering with multinational music companies to develop ‘responsible’ AI products https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/16/spotify-ai-products-partnering-multinational-music-companies #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Digitalmusicandaudio #Technology #Internet #Spotify #Music
Spotify partnering with multinational music companies to develop ‘responsible’ AI products

Market-leading music streamer collaborating with the Sony, Universal and Warner music groups to create new AI features

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Technology | The Guardian USOct 12, 2025
‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists #Digitalmusicandaudio #Musicstreaming #Technology #Spotify #Culture #USnews #Music #Media
‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging

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