The Urban Legend

Urban’s Spotify Wrapped

Eliot Solomon, Features Editor & Multimedia Editor • February 6, 2023

At the end of every year since 2016, Spotify has released their users’ listening summaries in a data compilation called Spotify Wrapped. The globally top-streamed artists of 2022 were Bad Bunny, Taylor...

Urban student 2020 music rewind

Zoe Sokatch, Staff Writer • January 20, 2021

In a year like no other, full of uncertainty and hardship, music can be a reliable source of joy, comfort and escape. Many people have turned to music to get them through 2020. As the calendar turned to...

The rise of SoundCloud

Catherine Silvestri, Staff Writer, Assistant Online Editior • June 8, 2016

With new artists popping up every day, the free online audio sharing company SoundCloud has quickly become one of the top ways to stream innovative music. SoundCloud is its own form of social media. Users...

New music streaming app ‘Tidal,’ gives money back to the artists

Marie Bergsund, Staff Writer • May 20, 2015

With the increasingly popular music streaming app ‘Spotify,’ listeners can pay nine dollars a month to own billions of songs. If the listener chooses to not pay the nine dollars, the same music is...

Vinyl makes a comeback within a younger generation

Olivia DiNapoli, Staff Writer • February 10, 2015

Vinyl once seemed like a nostalgic remnant of the past, but recently, it has been majorly revived. From 2013 to 2014, vinyl sales increased by 52 percent, with 3.1 million more records sold in 2014 than...