SPOTIFY has added Scots to their list of languages, in a major victory for a campaigning musician. In December, Iona Fyfe protested the streaming giant’s omission of the leid from their listing of all UK minority languages. While Manx, Irish Gaelic, Cornish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic are all recognised, Scots was not. Previously when Fyfe asked Spotify to allow her music to be listed as Scots, they told her to make do by “selecting the language closest to it”. For several years the award-winning singer, who was named Scots Performer of the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2020, has had to identify her music as English.
Singer wins campaign to persuade Spotify to recognise Scots language for first time
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Scots language is fighting back from the brink and is now officially recognised on Spotify
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Laura Ohls, senior editor, folk and AAA, Spotify: I’ve always thought of “alternative” as referring to any artist creating music that challenges what’s being popularized in the mainstream, across all genres. In the ’90s, rock music was still very much at the core of popular music culture, and as a result, “alternative” [was more] guitar-driven in sound. Fast forward to 2020, where hip-hop, pop and Latin are the titans of genre, and you’ll find that the class of artists defying what’s expected are doing so within these genre spaces. As a result, there is an amalgamation of genres that make up modern “alternative” sounds.