It’s the Music You Hear All Day, Without Ever Noticing

It was the soundtrack to my kids’ favorite YouTube video. It was the background music for the TikTok urban-homestead tutorials a friend sent me. It was in Super Bowl commercials and Instagram spon-con ...
University of California, Davis

What Makes a Hit? On TikTok and Spotify, Listeners Only Partly Decide

TikTok is built for people to create and share their own content, so dance music and indie artists fill the platform’s Top 100. On Spotify, love songs and music from major record labels dominate its ...
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Charlie Puth Joins AI Company As “Chief Music Officer”

Charlie Puth appears to possess some legitimate intelligence when it comes to music theory; unfortunately, he is not opposed to artificial intelligence. Today Moises, an AI music production platform, ...