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Discovery channels is a series exploring the state of music discovery in 2022: how streaming and social media have changed the way music enters our lives

28 July 2024

  • The BBC Olympics presenters Fred Sirieix, Isa Guha, Hazel Irvine, Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, Jeanette Kwakye, JJ Chalmers and Laura Kenny.

    Paris Games TV coverage review – just navigating the channels feels like an Olympic sport

    Amid rain and soggy shots of the Eiffel Tower, I swiftly became over-invested in the women’s 3-metre synchronised diving … and, hey, bring on the breakdancing

1 December 2022

  • A scene from HBO’s Game of Thrones with Emilia Clarke

    The battle for Australia’s Home of HBO – and why too many streaming services could squeeze out Foxtel and Stan

    Dan Barrett
    We may live in an era of peak TV, but as more global giants arrive the content options dwindle for local streamers

5 October 2022

  • Grimes looking like a fantasy elf

    ‘I was blown away!’: readers on their best music discoveries – and listening habits

    Concluding our Discovery Channels series, Guardian readers share the music that’s new to them – and how they came across it

30 September 2022

  • ‘Emerging from the wastes of post-industrial Oklahoma City’ … metal group Chat Pile.

    Lynchian punk to Lady Gaga: the best music Guardian staff and writers discovered this year

  • ‘My decision to listen to music is always very sporadic and random’ … Brendan Yates of hardcore band Turnstile.

    Brendan Yates of Turnstile’s listening diary: ‘I’ll run to Enya’

29 September 2022

  • Keza MacDonald

    Video games introduced me to the Chemical Brothers - now teens find music through Fortnite

    Keza MacDonald
  • ‘She broke really late in the traditional world’ … Dua Lipa.

    ‘The work we do isn’t algorithmic’: A&R in the era of TikTok

28 September 2022

  • What was your best recent discovery?

    Tell us about your best new music discovery in 2022

    We would like to hear about your new music highlights of the year so far, and how you found them
  • Spreading the joy … L-R: Norsicaa, Sherelle, Coco Maria

    ‘This gets the stinkfaces going!’: DJs on the tracks they are asked about the most

    From Thai hip-hop to UK hardcore, five DJs tell us the tracks that most consistently get crowds asking: ‘What’s this song?’
  • ‘Listneing to your voice is like trying to tickle yourself – it doesn’t really work’ … Bill Callahan.

    Bill Callahan’s listening diary: ‘My daughter makes me listen to Harry Styles 20 times in a row’

    The US songwriter guides us through a few days in sounds, from his son’s love of the Hamster Dance to Texas’s local Mexican radio stations and Traxman

27 September 2022

  • Back to the future … many listeners are going back to pre-streaming means to enjoy music.

    ‘There’s endless choice, but you’re not listening’: fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music

    Former streaming service subscribers on why they have ditched mod cons for MP3s, CDs and other DIY music formats

26 September 2022

  • ‘The Love Unlimited Orchestra takes me on a journey of all my emotions’ … Laura Lee of Khruangbin.

    Laura Lee of Khruangbin’s listening diary: ‘An Israeli artist singing a bolero in Spanish is an unexpected twist’

  • Discovered … (from left) Pinkpantheress, Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Kate Bush.

    Has streaming made it harder to discover new music?

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