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Christmas music is more popular than ever, with listeners embracing it earlier in the year; by December 10, 20 of Spotify's top 25 tracks were Christmas-themed (Elias Leight/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/…

Taylor Swift set a new record for first-week album sales, reaching 4M by releasing 38 variations of Life of a Showgirl, an increasingly popular strategy (Elias Leight/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/…

Spotify reinstates integration with third-party DJ software for Premium subscribers in 51 markets, including the US, after pulling support in 2020 (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/spotify-now-di…

Spotify now directly integrates with DJ software
Spotify just announced integration with popular DJ software platforms. This will allow users to create DJ sets by dipping into their playlists.

I wrote off Linkin Park in high school as cynically packaged, manufactured angst with cringey lyrics, on top of musically uninteresting riffs and progressions, even for popular music (lots of boring consonance and repetitive drones on perfect intervals, the Halloween theme called and wants its gimmick back, etc.).
With 25 years of hindsight I think I was a little too harsh. It's still mostly not my bag but I see now what other people see in Chester Bennington's vocals, and &quo…

Half black kitten, half otter 🦦

In 1952 POLKA got replaced with PAPA in the NATO “Phonetic” alphabet: “ALFA, BRAVO, CHARLIE…” 🎙️
The same year the #accordion reached its peak in imports into the United States at 200,000 instruments a year
It was all downhill from there, with 🪗 imports sliding into the tens of thousands or lower by the 1970s 📉
And the polka craze of the 1930s–1950s slowly giving way to newer popular music as well
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-eOzeY4M&t=990s

Crude Tunes: The Histories and Cultures of Petroleum in Popular Music
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updated: Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:35pmfull name / name of organization: John Miller and Josie…
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Steven.com, owned by Steven Bartlett, host of popular UK podcast Diary of a CEO, raised a "major eight-figure investment" at a $425M valuation (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)
https://musically.com/2025/10/28/diary-of-a-ceo-creator-steven-bar…

‘Diary of a CEO’ creator Steven Bartlett’s firm valued at $425m
Learn how Steven Bartlett’s firm is aiming to build a creator economy empire, drawing inspiration from Walt Disney's success.