Connie Zhang
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A new episode of our podcast “Was mit Musik” is here! This time it’s about Spotify’s remuneration model, tutorials for really well-functioning playlists, “All Music Friday” and karaoke evenings, in which Avril Lavigne is also sung extensively.
Conny Zhang – Spotify Head of Music for Germany, Austria and Switzerland – is a guest at ROLLING STONE’s inside talk. She has been controlling events from Berlin since 2021 and is looking at how she can make music more accessible on the one hand, and how she can promote talent and launch the best playlists on the other. This year she organized the “All Music Friday” with Spotify for the first time. She talks to us about the future of the event, but also about playlist algorithms, the approach to the streaming service’s remuneration model, employee motivation and her love for Bon Iver and Beyoncé.
The hosts of the ROLLING STONE Inside Talk are Hella Wittenberg and Sebastian Zabel. Your podcast is about people who do “something with music”. To be more precise: from the people in the music industry, the people who make things possible and the decision-makers, the label bosses and the organizers. They talk about topics that move them and the scene. Vinyl shortage and streaming remuneration, tour disaster and surprise successes, diversity and sustainability, backstage stories and favorite records.
Watch the previous episode with Folkert Koopmans, founder of FKP Scorpio.