Spotify

“I’m not trying to put Spotify out of business,” Lowery said of his class-action lawsuit against the streaming platform. “I hope they just clean up their act. ”

RIAA's Cary Sherman said the new report proves "some technology giants have been enriching themselves at the expense of the people who actually create the music."

Joanna Newsom’s catalog is notably absent from Spotify, and she's opened up as to why that's the case: It’s a “villainous cabal” and “musician-hating machine.”

Don't get angry at streaming services for giving you what you want.

The fact that we need freemium as a part of the music landscape is a sad reality of today's music industry. But we do need it.

Spotify could become an incubator for musicians, pushing the frontiers of music the same way they push the frontiers of listening.

It's a potential selling point for indie labels and artists wary of Spotify's payment model -- but it's also not as democratic as it seems.

The deal allows Spotify to bolster its list of curated playlists and helps Beatport promote itself to Spotify's 75 million global users.

Nike+ is using the Spotify music library to enhance a feature called Pace Stations, which plays from a 100 song playlist geared to help users train.

Tobias van Schneider wrote: "It’s not so much a discussion of the right or wrong color, it’s simply about change or no change."