Spotify, the music industry’s leading streaming service, said Thursday that it would stop promoting or recommending music by artists whose content or conduct it deemed to be offensive, hoping to quell ...

Spotify has posted a new Hate Content & Hateful Conduct policy, which, among other things, states, “When an artist or creator does something that is especially harmful or hateful (for example, ...

The New York Times published an article on Monday (Aug. 19) about each of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates' campaign playlists. Some of the lists featured a variety of songs in the hip-hop, ...

Update: Spotify has also removed controversial rapper XXXTentacion from its playlists. XXXTentacion's hit "SAD!" was on Rap Caviar, Spotify's most popular playlist, as of yesterday. Now it's gone, ...