Prince's music tipped to be returning to Spotify and other music streaming services

People have been reading between the lines, or at least between the subway posts in New York, saying that Prince's catalog will be making a comeback on popular music streaming services in time for the Grammys on February 12. Currently, Tidal has exclusive streaming rights to the Purple One's back catalog. Speculation started when Spotify started posting very coy billboards in high-foot traffic areas like the Union Square in New York. And by coy, they're just posts painted in purple with Spotify's logo on them. If there is any truth to the rumor, Prince's catalog is expected to hit Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Unlimited, Deezer, and Pandora.

Source: CNET + Billboard

Sega brings some old-school game tunes to Spotify

Feeling nostalgic about the Sega games of your youth? You can at least relive some of your favorites through the soundtracks of the games. Sega updated its Spotify account to add soundtracks to many of its classic arcade and console games. Have a blast listening to the music from the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe, Virtua Fighter, Out Run and Jet Set Radio, to name a few.

Source: TechCrunch

Spotify for macOS gets Touch Bar support

The latest update for Spotify on macOS brings with it some important features for MacBook Pro users. Those with the Touch Bar now gain similar controls to iTunes. It’ll let you “scrub” through a track, play, pause, shuffle, and induce a search box. Aside from that, the app will also pause a track when you take out one of the AirPods from your ears and will resume once you re-insert it.

Source: Apple Insider

The Black Keys hesitantly brings latest albums to Spotify

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The Black Keys have caved and put two of its latest albums (2011’s El Camino and 2014’s Turn Blue) on Spotify. It wasn’t without any hesitation, though. As The Black Keys’s drummer Patrick Carney tweeted: “After five years of struggling with this we agreed to put the keys songs on Spotify. I’d rather people hear our music than not.” Carney, who has spoken out against the streaming service before, also tweeted: “No advance or money was exchanged. I’m still an advocate for artists to be paid fairly. I’m still apprehensive.”

In a 2014 interview with the Seattle Times, Carney has acknowledged that Spotify was the “way of the future” but he hopes artists were giving fair share of revenue. "My whole thing about music is: if somebody’s making money then the artist should be getting a fair cut of it," he said. "The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars… he’s richer than Paul McCartney and he’s 30 and he’s never written a song."

Source: Billboard