{"id":92186,"date":"2019-05-09T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/09\/spotifys-eu-playlist-is-proof-that-europe-remains-united-around-pop\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:29:08","slug":"spotifys-eu-playlist-is-proof-that-europe-remains-united-around-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=92186","title":{"rendered":"Spotify&#039;s EU playlist is proof that Europe remains united around pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The service has compiled 28 tracks to encourage voting in the European elections. It\u2019s prosaic, familiar \u2013 and quietly revelatorySpotify has unexpectedly waded into the forthcoming European elections. The music streaming service, which has more than 200 million users \u2013 about 36% of them in Europe \u2013 has produced an EU-themed playlist entitled Get Vocal Europe!, featuring one track from each of the EU\u2019s 28 member nations, and is sending messages to its customers encouraging them to vote in the elections, which take place on 23-26 May.The messages \u2013 which appear on opening the Spotify app \u2013 direct users to a website called thistimeimvoting.eu, which provides information in all official EU languages on voting. A second message is planned to appear on the day the user\u2019s country votes. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/may\/09\/spotify-eu-playlist-european-elections\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify&#039;s EU playlist is proof that Europe remains united around pop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The service has compiled 28 tracks to encourage voting in the European elections. It\u2019s prosaic, familiar \u2013 and quietly revelatorySpotify has unexpectedly waded into the forthcoming European elections. The music streaming service, which has more than 200 million users \u2013 about 36% of them in Europe \u2013 has produced an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}