Music streaming platform Spotify expands its Web3 efforts by testing token-enabled playlists in a number of key markets.
Overlord, a Web3 gaming ecosystem, reported on Feb. 22 the beginning of its partnership with Spotify. The token-enabled community-curated playlist from Overlord could now be accessed by way of Web3 wallets of those that maintain the Creepz nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on Spotify. For now, solely Android customers from the USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and New Zealand can unlock the playlists.
Different contributors within the three-month pilot are Fluf, Moonbirds and Kingship metaverse communities. Whereas Fluf and Moonbirds didn’t share any particulars on their partnership with the streaming service publicly, Kingship confirmed its participation in a pilot on Twitter. To unlock the tracklist, together with the hits by Queen, Missy Eliott, Snoop Dogg and Led Zeppelin, the consumer ought to possess a Kingship Key Card NFT.
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The announcement triggered a surge of Web3 music tokens. For instance, VIB, Viberate’s native token, was up 33%. Different tokens, equivalent to Audius’ AUDIO and Rhythm’s RHYTHM, additionally rose 4% and a couple of.5%, respectively.
Again in Might 2022, Spotify started testing the NFT galleries on musicians’ profiles. Though with out an choice of direct buy, it let the customers preview the artists’ NFTs and be redirected to the OpenSea web page the place they may buy the gadgets.
The music market stays one of many blooming areas of crypto adoption. In late January, value-for-value podcasting platform Fountain introduced a partnership with ZEBEDEE to allow Bitcoin micropayments for podcast listeners. In February, royalty rights from Rhianna’s hit 2015 music, “Bitch Higher Have My Cash,” has been supplied as a part of a group of 300 NFTs.
