Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M paid subscribers

Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by RheingoldRiver on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:23PM (#34606327)

It depends what music you like, but at the end of the year every year, a lot of people with very different tastes post their favorite of the previous years $yourVerySpecificFavoriteGenre.

For me, this is video game music. My absolute favorite blog for this is "Press A," [0] which is hosted on a broader music blog called "A Closer Listen," but in addition to their post, I also simply do a search of "best video game music of $previousYear" every January and typically find about 20-30 different recommendations, which I sample on youtube and then get what I want of that. This past year seems to have been particularly stunning, so far I've listened to Kena: Bridge of Spirits, TUNIC, Elden Ring, and Sable, all of them utterly fantastic (Elden Ring actually being the weakest of the list). Pretty sure Kena will prove to be my favorite of the year, but I think it'll take me months to get through everything, simply because I haven't wanted to move on from anything yet.

Some previous lesser-known favorites include Sayonara Wild Hearts, Stellaris, and Spiritfarer.

[0] https://acloserlisten.com/2022/12/12/press-a-2022-the-years-...

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by vanilla_nut on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:19AM (#34609492)

Fun fact: SEO spam and AI-driven search seems to have made "Press A" a completely un-googleable term at this point. Seems to correct me to Wordpress no matter what I do, even using quotes, and then ignores A as a glue word.

It occurs to me that finding this blog would be a good test for a search engine.

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by eipi10_hn on Thursday February 02, 2023 @01:48AM (#34623055)

I searched *Press A* in Kagi and it shows that website at the top for me

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by aks_tldr on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:38AM (#34613056)

Wow thank you sir for introducing me to these Jems. See no algorithm will come close to understanding such intricate cultural details.

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by RheingoldRiver on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:30PM (#34614118)

No problem, I was hoping someone would share my love of semi-obscure or very obscure video game music! As a bonus, check out the Songs of Supergiant Games 10th Anniversary Orchestral Collection (NOT the original soundtracks, this is much higher quality) :)

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