MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 15: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Best quality available) In this handout provided by the Miami Dade County Corrections, Rapper XXXTentacion, also known as Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy poses for his ...

A few weeks ago, Spotify announced a new hate content and hateful conduct policy which resulted in the removal of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion's music from Spotify-curated playlists and other editorial ...

Earlier today (May 10), Spotify announced that R. Kelly was getting deaded from their playlists. The next artist to have received the same fate if Florida rapper XXXtentacion. Being that XXXtentacion ...

Streams of rapper XXXTentacion's single "SAD!" have dipped 17% per day in the week since the song was removed from certain Spotify playlists, Billboard reports. If the rate of decline persists, the ...

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, ...

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The campaign to #MuteRKelly has gained another powerful ally: This morning, Spotify quietly removed Kelly’s music, as well as that of accused domestic abuser XXXTentacion, from its editorial and ...

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 ...

Controversial rapper XXXTentacion was shot dead in Florida Monday. He was 20 years old. A month before the fatal shooting, the "SAD!" rapper had some of his music removed from Spotify when the ...

On Thursday, Spotify officially entered the #MeToo arena with the announcement that it would be removing R. Kelly and XXXTentacion’s music from its playlists, in accordance with a new policy on hate ...

The New York Times published a catalog on August 20 of each of the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls’ campaign playlists. These are the tracks that the candidates use to amp up their campaign ...

In a Billboard story today, Spotify announced new policies for dealing with what it calls "hateful conduct" and "hate content." Under the new rules, anyone who engages in what the streaming service ...