Anchor and Spotify launch 'shows with music'

• Always wanted music in your podcast? Now’s your chance. Anchor and Spotify have launched Shows with Music - a chance for proper, full radio-type shows with full tracks. However, shows only appear on Spotify and your listeners only hear the songs in full with Spotify Premium - but musicians do get paid as they would with any other Spotify play. If you’re in the US, you can earn with Anchor sponsorships, but you can also upload your own ads, too. Available now in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland, episodes containing music will undergo a review process before being published to Spotify.

  
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  • UK radio executive Matt Deegan notes that his show was rejected because he didn’t talk enough; and adds that “if anyone asks, it definitely isn’t radio and it doesn’t mean that songs have come to podcasts.”
  • Of note, the Anchor page explaining it all now brands the company “Anchor by Spotify”.

• One example of how the Spotify/Anchor news might make things better for listeners: My 90s Playlist is a new show from Sony Music Entertainment, with the first episode featuring a deep dive into TLC’s No Scrubs. The 3'34" song itself, on a Sony Music record label, is played for less than two minutes on the podcast, and continually talked-over by the hosts, music and pop culture enthusiasts Tracy Clayton and Akoto Ofori-Atta, apart from one 25-second clip. To hear the song in full - on Spotify at least - would, surely, be a good thing.

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