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Spotify has launched a new subscription plan for users in the United States with a lower price, but it also comes with a trade-off. The ‘Basic’ plan will cost $10.99 per month and includes all the regular features of the Premium plan except no Audiobook monthly listening time. The change comes soon after the streaming giant pushed up the Premium tier subscription from $10.99 to $11.99, with that increase reportedly set to contribute toward the cost of audiobooks. Premium users are also able to listen to ad-free music offline, with an allocated 15 hours of Audiobook content included in the package. In the States, the company’s largest m...... Read Full article on HadNews

It’s been less than a day since Beyoncé finally dropped her Cowboy Carter album, and the project is already breaking records. The album is officially Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2024, the streaming service announced on Friday (March 29). This is the first time a country-album holds the title this year. Before the album’s release, “Texas Hold ‘Em” was streamed over 200 million times. That’s not the only record that the album broke. Cowboy Carter has the biggest debut to date earning more first-day streams on Amazon Music globally than any of her previous albums. The album also marks the most...... Read Full article on HadNews

More than five decades after its release, Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” joins Spotify’s Billions Club – an elite collection of works that have accumulated more than one billion streams. Recognized as a classic of the heavy metal genre, “Paranoid” is the title track from the band’s 1970 LP, peaking at No. 4 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart and No. 61 on the Billboard Hot 100. Though it continues to rock hard on Spotify and other streaming platforms, “Paranoid” was written in the studio “in five minutes,” Black Sabbath bass player Geezer Butler told Guitar World in 2004. The song was “written as an afterthoug...... Read Full article on HadNews