Associated Press: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny top Spotify’s first all-time most streamed artists list. “It’s her, hi! Taylor Swift has topped Spotify’s first ever list of the most streamed artists of all time, published Thursday morning. She’s followed by Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny. That comes as no surprise: In 2025 the artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio was named the […]

Local News Matters Bay Area: Bay Area Gen Z revives physical music formats over streaming platforms. “Last December, 17-year-old Navya Chitlur had only one thing on her Christmas list: a portable CD player. She’d been collecting CDs from her favorite artists for the last few months — but now she wanted to go all in and actually listen to them.”

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ Helped Drive Music Industry To Record Sales In 2025; Vinyl Tops $1B For First Time Since 1983, RIAA Says
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Gen Z loves AI for homework, hates it in their headphones

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The Register: Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is . “A group of researchers affiliated with Harvard Medical School recently issued a working paper reporting an association between the release days of the most-streamed albums and an increase in US traffic fatalities. The authors say the pattern is consistent with smartphone-enabled driver […]