Spotify has announced that Drake’s “One Dance” has become the platform’s most streamed song in history. According to a press release, the song has now been listened to over 880 million times.
Bad Timing Records are having a fall sale:
As we wrap up the year and begin to look toward 2017, we would like to cut down on our physical warehouse space a bit, making Bad Timing slightly more nimble in regards to maintaining our inventory, picking up new releases when we can, things of that nature. So we’ve gathered together a decently large list of CDs, 7″s, 12″s and more that we’re putting up for sale on this page.
The Guardian is reporting that the committee that they’ve been unable to get in touch with Bob Dylan after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
“Right now we are doing nothing. I have called and sent emails to his closest collaborator and received very friendly replies. For now, that is certainly enough,” the academy’s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, told state radio SR on Monday.
In a recent interview with the BBC, Justin Timberlake mentions that he’s been in the studio working on new music with Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Max Martin.
Green Day earn their third number one album as Revolution Radio tops the charts this week.
Green Day rocks the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 with its third chart-topping album, Revolution Radio. The band’s 12th studio effort enters atop the list with 95,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 13, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 90,000 were in traditional album sales.
Aimee Mann, Josh Ritter, Franz Ferdinand, and more have all contributed more to the “30 days, 30 songs” project.
Bring Me the Horizon will release their live DVD, Live At The Royal Albert Hall, on December 2nd. Pre-orders are now up.
Leonard Cohen’s new album, You Want it Darker, is streaming NPR.
John K. Samson is streaming his new album, _Winter Whea_t, on CBC Music with a track-by-track breakdown.
The Washington Post tracked Facebook’s “Trending Topics” section for three weeks. They found a bunch of fake and inaccurate stories.
Our results shouldn’t be taken as conclusive: Since Facebook personalizes its trends to each user, and we tracked results only during work hours, there’s no guarantee that we caught every hoax. But the observation that Facebook periodically trends fake news still stands — if anything, we’ve underestimated how often it occurs.
Maybe it’s time to re-think this whole thing, yeah?
The record label, Procrastinate! Music Traitors, has started a street team.
Dan Rys, at Billboard, sat down with Jimmy Iovine to talk about Apple Music:
Before we get into that, we have to get into the why. It’s a story, it’s complex. Because what everyone’s writing is the obvious right now. They’re writing, “People in the record business are getting into tech so they can talk to people in the record business.” That’s hogwash. And why it’s hogwash is, it takes a certain individual… For example, I met [Apple executives] Steve Jobs and Eddy Cue in 2003. I realized, okay, the future of music is going to be intertwined with distribution through technology companies. It just looked like that to me, and I realized how far behind I personally was. So I set out to really understand. So I worked with those guys for about two years, and I said to Steve, “I’d like to do headphones with Apple with [Dr.] Dre,” about two or three years later. He said, “Do it yourself, you can do it.” So I tried it myself.
Photographer Benedict Redgrove has posted some gorgeous photos of NASA’s rockets and robots.
Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He is the first American to win since the novelist Toni Morrison, in 1993. The announcement, in Stockholm, came as something of a surprise. Although Mr. Dylan, 75, has been mentioned often as having an outside shot at the prize, his work does not fit into the traditional literary canons of novels, poetry and short stories that the prize has traditionally recognized.