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# Spotify, Bandsintown, TuneCore Offered Innovative #BlackOutTuesday Support
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/spotify-bandsintown-tunecore-offer-innovative-blackouttuesday-support/
- Published: 2020-06-02T11:49:31.000Z
- Updated: 2020-06-03T11:41:30.000Z
- Description: Spotify, Bandsintown and Tunecore are among the major music companies participating in today’s Black Out Tuesday campaign in innovative ways. TuneCore is donating 100% of its distribution fees for new. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2020/06/spotify-bandsintown-tunecore-offer-innov
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:51

**Spotify**, **Bandsintown** and **Tunecore** are among the major music companies participating in today’s **Black Out Tuesday** campaign in innovative ways.

![TuneCore logo on black background, representing digital music distribution platform used by independent artists.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/tunecore-logo-new.jpg)

**TuneCore** is donating 100% of its distribution fees for new releases on Tuesday to **[Color of Change](https://colorofchange.org/?ref=hypebot.com)**, a non-profit with 1.7 million members whose goal is to motive “decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.”

![Black Lives Matter protest sign emphasizing the importance of Black lives, bodies, children, love, art, dreams, and futures with bold yellow, black, and white text.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/spcdn-shortpixel-ai/spio/ret_img-q_cdnize/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/blm_01.png)

Bandsintown “#BlackOutTuesday Campaign

For 24 hours on Tuesday, live streaming and concert hub **Bandsintown** has donated space across its extensive advertising network to showcase **Black Lives Matter** and related imagery with links out to the advocacy group **[ColorOfChange.org](https://colorofchange.org/?ref=hypebot.com)**.

![Handmade collage of Black Lives Matter protesters’ names in the shape of a raised fist, symbolizing solidarity and activism against racial injustice.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/spcdn-shortpixel-ai/spio/ret_img-q_cdnize/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/blm_02.png)

Bandsintown “#BlackOutTuesday Campaign

### Spotify: **Blacked-Out Playlists, Podcasts** and 8 Minutes 46 Seconds Of Silence

**Spotify** enacted a number of changes starting at 12:01 AM on Tuesday.

Listeners will see a black logo and headline image on more than a dozen of Spotify’s flagship playlists and podcasts, including [**Today’s Top Hits**](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M?si=Uz67tE%5FXQ9CPOkvzMU98YQ&ref=hypebot.com) and **[RapCaviar](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX0XUsuxWHRQd?si=J5IW9qfnToq-%5FgnCWNEPsg&ref=hypebot.com)**. Select playlists and podcasts will include an **8-minute, 46-second track of silence** in acknowledgment of the time that a police officer forcefully held his knee to **George Floyd**‘s neck.

![Spotify and digital music industry conference with attendees and speakers on stage in a modern auditorium.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/blackout_rapcaviar-768x768-1.jpg)

Blacked Out Spotify Playlist

Spotify will pause all social media in a symbol of solidarity.

The streamer is also reactivating its long-standing **Black History Is Now** hub as a resource and home for music, playlists, and podcasts like **Code Switch, You Had Me at Black**, and **Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay.**

The hub will also feature playlists, including **Black History Salute** and W**e Shall Overcome**. **The Black Lives Matter** playlist, which was updated for Black Music Month in June, will also be featured.