So while everyone hypes Spotify's Discover Weekly, this decades-old platform outshines it when it comes to finding new music.

A North Carolina man was arrested Wednesday and faces multiple felony charges for allegedly defrauding music streaming platforms out of over $10 million in royalties. RELATED STORIES: Bishop Lamor ...

Streaming fraud is unquestionably a serious and pressing issue. France’s National Music Centre estimates that between 2021 and 2024, streaming platforms received anywhere between 1 and 3 billion ...

In an email to himself in 2017, Smith calculated his songs were being listened 661,440 times daily across various platforms, potentially earning more than $3,000 a day and up to $1.2 million per year.

But there are consequences. There's been very major consequences for artists. The rise of streaming has really changed the economics of the music industry in ways that have not benefited most artists.