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Deezer promotes an “artist-centric” payout model, has signed the Statement on AI training and rolled out AI-detection and labelling to protect artists from synthetic content, and in 2025 adopted the a...
Neil Young is not alone in removing music from major streaming platforms; multiple artists and bands have withdrawn catalogs from services like Amazon Music and Spotify for reasons ranging from protes...
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is the principal streaming company singled out in the reporting for ties between leadership investments and AI weapons firms—coverage alleges Spotify CEO/co‑founder has backed AI drone maker , prompti...
Major streaming platforms including , , and have all been accused at various times of — but the allegations cover several different practices (removal, de‑promotion, filtering, shadow‑banning and age/...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that has withdrawn his music from : maintains artist pages listing Perlman recordings , and recent coverage focuses on a new rather than removal of catal...
Reporting shows a burst of public commentary from musicians, Hollywood stars and in the immediate aftermath of the , but the available sources do not document clear, sustained public statements from m...
Streaming payouts in 2025–2026 remain a landscape of ranges, not fixed cents: established data and industry trackers show Spotify among the lower-paying mainstream services (roughly $0.003–$0.005 per ...
In 2025 the highest per‑stream payouts skewed toward smaller, paid‑only or audiophile platforms—Napster, TIDAL, Apple Music and niche services like Qobuz reported the strongest per‑stream averages—whi...
Charlie Ward’s “Daily News” output on or about 1 December 2025 appears on his own platforms; the Charlie Ward Show site lists a newsletter timestamped “1st December 2025 00.02” and his Daily News inde...