Among its recent changes, Spotify has acquired music database WhoSampled, a database for finding samples, cover songs, and remixes. On Wednesday (Nov. 19), WhoSampled announced that while it will be ...

Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that becomes the foundation for an entirely new genre. It’s wild how a forgotten ...

If you’re a music fan, here’s a site that you could lose yourself in for hours. With sampling (using clips of other people’s songs as part of a new song) commonplace in modern music, London-based ...

WhoSampled was acquired by Spotify, unlocking deeper music discovery tools while keeping the platform’s identity. WhoSampled was officially acquired by Spotify, marking a pivotal shift in how ...

Ever since technology took over the music industry, artists have been sampling from other artists nonstop. Folks have contrasting views about this phenomenon, as some view it as unoriginal and lazy, ...

Although music sampling—the reuse of previous music in a new song or piece—is a rich, centuries-old tradition, we seldom hear about its successes. On one hand, the mass media seems to have drawn a ...

WhoSampled, the service that identifies music samples, recently updated their iOS/Android app to include Shazam-style music recognition. Now when you hear a song playing in a bar or a store, you can ...

Unpaid royalties have long been a problem in the music industry. Artists, songwriters, and producers miss out on millions due to the misappropriation of funds at the hands of shady labels and music ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Does song discovery interest you? If so, you should be happy to learn that WhoSampled has just hit Google Play ...

A report to be published in the International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising reveals that longer, higher quality free music samples engage more listeners and reduce the number of free ...

If you're a music junkie (especially in the electronic realm), there's a good chance that you've used WhoSampled to identify song samples, covers or remixes. So far, though, you've had to know the ...

Nate Dogg and Warren G in the “Regulate” music video (screen grab from YouTube) Last week the entire music world mourned the loss of all-time songwriting virtuoso Rod Temperton. While he’s most known ...