The world’s biggest playlist?
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A celebrity you may not recognise but already know – Roberta from Spotify
The world of autotune has spread across the internet and music in recent years but we’ve seen it applied to a whole new load of audio this week. In particular, baby cries, the speeches of Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King and most randomly of all, the news. Everything, it seems is more tuneful, with autotune.
It may not have escaped your attention that there’s a lot of music on the internet, and in particular on services like Spotify. But have you ever wondered just how much? Well thanks to a rather clever trick by music blog, Music Machinery you can find out how many tracks Spotify has (several million) and even stick the whole lot of them on a playlist. An interesting and rather clever way to find new music we think.
Finally, on a more moving tip we loved this collection of buskers globally all singing Ben E. King’s classic 60s soul song, Stand by Me. Done to promote the Playing for Change project that promotes peace through music, this is a moving rendition of the song. We hope you enjoy it.