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Spotify’s 10-Year Canada Wrap: Top Artists and Surprising Stats

Spotify is celebrating 10 years in Canada, and the streaming platform has unveiled some surprising data on Canadian music and global trends. The streaming music service shared its latest anniversary data with iPhone in Canada today. Over the past decade, Canadian artists have made a huge impact worldwide. Fans globally streamed Canadian tracks over 300...

Spotify Launches Custom Playlist Cover Art in Canada and Beyond

Spotify is rolling out a new feature today allowing users to design their own playlist cover art, giving playlists a more personal touch, explained the company in an email to iPhone in Canada. With over 8 billion playlists created globally, Spotify users will now be able to customize covers with text, background colours, stickers, gradients,...

Spotify Free Tier to Get Unlimited Lyrics in the ‘Coming Weeks’

If you’re a Spotify user on the company’s free tier, unlimited lyrics are coming your way beyond the currently limited restrictions of three songs. The ability to see lyrics for unlimited songs is normally part of a paid tier, but that’s changing. Spotify confirmed this with Engadget, saying, “At Spotify, we’re always testing and iterating....

Spotify Hikes Premium Prices in the US–What About Canada?

Music streaming service Spotify announced on Monday it is increasing its prices for new and existing Premium subscribers in the US. The Individual plan is increasing by $1 from $10.99 to $11.99 USD. Spotify’s US plans are as follows: Individual: $11.99 (was $10.99) Duo: $16.99 Family: $19.99 Student: $5.99 Last July, Spotify also increased Premium...

Bryan Adams Slams Trudeau’s Cancon Rules: “Music is Global”

Canadian music icon Bryan Adams has called on the Trudeau government to reverse its plans for regulating Canadian content (Cancon). In a video shared to Instagram on Thursday morning, Adams criticized the regulations proposed under the Online Streaming Act passed last year. He argued that the federal government aims to "penalize artists" for the multicultural...