Music Stories for 2020

Most-Played Song of 2020? For Many It's White Noise 59
Spotify's Podcasting Problem: Loophole Allows Remixes and Unreleased Songs To Hide in Plain Sight 24
Amazon To Buy Podcast Maker Wondery 5
Tesla Update Turns Cars into Boomboxes, Adds Three In-Car Videogames and Customizable Honking 83
Square Has Discussed Acquiring Jay-Z's Tidal Service 4
Spotify Resets Passwords After a Security Bug Exposed Users' Private Account Information 19
This Robot Can Rap 29
Spotify Invents AI Tech That Will Police Songwriter Plagiarism 47
Spotify Says It's Dominating the Podcasting Market Because of a Million-Plus Tiny Podcasts 11
Doctor Who's Sonic Pioneers Will Turn the Internet Into a Giant Musical Instrument 12
Twitch Users Protest Its DMCA Policy By Streaming Videos With Homemade Sound Effects 126
Google Is Reportedly Working On Linking Up Nest Audio Speakers With Chromecast Streaming Devices 16
RIP Google Music, One of the Company's Last Examples of Generosity 97
Twitch Says It's In Talks To License Music, Tells Users To Delete Videos With Unauthorized Tracks 76
Ticketmaster To Require Negative COVID-19 Test Or Vaccination To Attend Concerts 152
The Eerie AI World of Deepfake Music 44
RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub 62
Spotify Will Boost Music In Exchange For Cut of Royalties 36
Apple Says Some AirPods Pro Have Sound Problems, Will Replace For Free 15
RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites 99
Twitch Suddenly Mass-Deletes Thousands of Videos, Citing Music Copyright Claims 75
92-Year-Old Songwriter Tom Lehrer Releases All His Lyrics Into the Public Domain 79
'youtube-dl' Downloading Software Removed From GitHub By RIAA Takedown Notice 186
Apple Launches 'Apple Music TV', a 24-Hour Music Video Livestream 22
Google Music Shuts Down Smart Speaker Support and Music Store 46
Google Introduces Song Matching via Humming, Whistling or Singing 25
Apple Announces Smaller HomePod Mini For $99 13
Slashback: How Eddie Van Halen Hacks a Guitar 50
Spotify Now Lets You Search For Songs By Lyrics 10
Is Streaming Music Worse For the Environment? 63
Amazon Remasters Streaming Tracks in Effort To Woo Subscribers 70
Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model 14
Amid the Pandemic's Urban Quiet, a Song That Makes Sense 9
Amazon Music Now Has Podcasts 15
Vinyl-Record Sales Top Compact Discs for First Time in 34 Years 114
Spotify Is Developing a 'Virtual Events' Feature 14
Google Play Music Shutdown Dates Set: Service To Be Replaced by YouTube Music by End of 2020 76
Google Threatens to Remove All Danish Music From YouTube 83
Spotify CEO: Musicians Can No Longer Release Music Only 'Once Every 3-4 Years' 105
MP3 Turns 25 80
Elon Musk Says Neuralink Will Stream Music Straight Into Your Brain 128
Scientists Say You Can Cancel the Noise But Keep Your Window Open 67
Metronome or Music Computer? Music Geek Tries the Raspberry Pi/Linux-Based 'Organelle' 41
Data Scientist Tries AI/Human Collaboration For Audio-Visual Art 26
'Biologically Plausible' Deep Learning Neurons Predict the Chords of Bach 24
Twitch Streamers Receive a Flood of Music Copyright Claims For Old Clips 45
On Facebook and YouTube, Classical Musicians Are Getting Blocked or Muted 46
Apple's Rumored Over-Ear Headphones Feature Head and Neck Detection, Custom Equalizer Settings 35
YouTube Music Adds a Transfer Option Ahead of Google Play Music's Shutdown this Year 62
Sonos Cofounder Hits Back at Spotify CEO Daniel Ek For Complaining About Apple 40
OpenAI's Jukebox AI Produces Music in Any Style From Scratch -- Complete With Lyrics 28
Looking Beyond Hardware, Sonos Launches Its First Streaming Service 9
Ticketmaster Preparing Refund Plan For Thousands of Postponed Shows 57
Apple Music On the Web Exits Beta 14
Apple Developing High-End Headphones With Interchangeable Parts 59
Ticketmaster Will No Longer Refund Postponed Shows 196
Study With Jazz Improv Musicians Sheds Light On the Source of Creativity In the Brain 48
EU Rules Rental Car Companies Don't Need To Pay A License To Rent Cars With Radios That Might Play Music 18
SiriusXM is Free Through May 15 To Help With Coronavirus Isolation Boredom 38
Coronavirus: Radio Listening Booms While Music Streaming Stalls 65
Music Streaming May Actually be Falling Because of Coronavirus 50
Scientists Draw Inspiration From Shark Skin For Novel New Smart Material 15
Sonos Decides Bricking Old Stuff Isn't a Winning Move After All 31
Resso, ByteDance's Music Streaming App, Officially Launches in India 6
Freedb.org Is Shutting Down 35
How Streaming Services Saved The Music Industry 79
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them To Public Domain 199
YouTube Says it Paid the Music Industry More Than $3 Billion Last Year 30
Data from Spotify Suggest That Listeners Are Gloomiest in February 40
Massive Building Fire Threatens Worldwide Vinyl Record Production 144
Elon Musk Releases an Electronic Dance Music Song 47
Billie Eilish Won Multiple Grammys Using Budget Studio Gear, Logic Pro X 137
Sonos CEO Apologizes For Confusion, Says Legacy Products Will Work 'As Long As Possible' 38
People Can Be Identified By the Way They Dance 57
'Music Copyright Lawsuits Are Scaring Away New Hits', Argues Rolling Stone 132
Streaming Services Reckon With Password-Sharing 'Havoc' 150
Bluetooth Will Support Hearing Aids, Sharing, and a Better Audio Codec 84
Why We Keep Sending Music To Extraterrestrials 71