Spotify has announced personalised playlists for pets following consultations with "experts in the industry". 

The company has created a playlist generator specifically designed for owners of iguanas, birds, hamsters, dogs and cats. Simply click on the appropriate animal, give some details about their personality and provide their name.

Streaming accounted for 80% of recording revenues in the U.S. in 2019, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) reports.

In a Tweet posted by the RIAA at the end of 2019, the assocation shared a detailed breakdown of the recording revenues at the start of the decade, and comparing them to figures collected at the end of last year.

A report released by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has found that sales from music streaming last year exceeded £1 billion in the UK for the first time.

The figures echo another recent report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) which said that UK consumers streamed 114 billion songs through official platforms in 2019. The ERA's information also revealed that music streaming helped overall music sales in the country increase by more than 7% bringing the figure up to £1.4 billion for 2019 in the UK.

Spotify has suspended all politic advertisements for service users, Adage reports.

Announcing the changes a week ago, the streaming giant shared that they do not have the ability to "validate and review" political advertising, and so will suspend the ads across the service's 141 million free users who currently hear advertising.

Robyn and Fred P are the latest artists to compile Help Refugee playlists.

Alongside playlists already curated by Call Super & Palms Trax, Mr. G, and The Black Madonna, Robyn and Fred P have contributed to the Christmas-themed Spotify playlists, which are in aid of Help Refugees.

Spotify is advertising its 320 kbps bitrate as "high-quality sound" to Premium subscribers.

The streaming giant, who recently revealed their paid subscribers had reached 113 million, has advertised the 320 kbps bitrate, offered to paid Premium users, as high-quality. In contrast, Amazon Music HD's streaming service offers 850 kbps bitrate - double the quality in sound offered by Spotify.

The story behind Spotify is set to be explored in a new streaming series.

Announced yesterday (11th), an untitled project focusing on Swedish Spotify co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, will be forthcoming on Netflix. Directed by Yellow Bird UK, the script will be based on the book Spotify Untold by authors and reporters Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud.

A web app has been developed that turns tracklists into playlists on streaming services.

In a post on Reddit, a user named iAligator shared details of the app they had developed entitled Playlistify. Compatible with both Apple Music and Spotify, the app allows the use of tracklists from 1001tracklists.com, setlist.fm, and livetracklist.com.

On-demand streaming has surpassed 1 trillion in the US for the first time.

During November, Nielsen Music reported that combined audio and visual streaming had surpassed 1 trillion for the first time ever in a calendar year. In the same period in 2018, week commencing the 21st November, there were 765.2 billion audio and video on-demand streams.

The entire number of streams reported in 2018 was 901 billion, which shows 31% growth year-over-year through to 2019.