50.9% of all listening in the UK was digital in the first three months of 2018 according to radio research body RAJAR. This compares to 47.2% for the first quarter in 2017. The share of radio listening by platform in the first quarter of 2018 to 17th May 2018 was: AM/FM 49.1% All Digital 50.9% DAB 36.8% Digital TV 4.8% Online/Apps 9.3% Total listening for all radio platforms during the quarter amounted to 1,025 million […]
Bandsintown, a specialist app for concert goers, has integrated Apple Music which will help Apple Music subscribers discover more artists by seamlessly listening to an artist’s catalogue and simultaneously browsing live events without ever having to switch between apps. The Bandsintown app uses Apple’s MusicKit integration technology to enable background listening and a seamless experience for uses. Bandsintown already has links to connect Spotify accounts to the Bandsintown app and a similar close integration would […]
Fruit Punch Music has launched a family friendly music service aimed at providing a ‘Spotify for Kids’. The ad-free music service is currently only available in the US and via an iOS app which can be downloaded via the Apple Appstore or from FruitPunchApp.com. Content on the service which aimed at children up to 8 years of age gives families access to a wide variety of songs, all subjected to an industry-first multi-point approval process […]
TIDAL and The Prince Estate have confirmed plans to release new Prince music exclusively via the TIDAL streaming service. The new album will contain previously unreleased music sourced from Prince’s vast archive of Vault recordings. The album – expected to be released in 2019 – will stream exclusively on TIDAL for fourteen days and will be available for download seven days after its debut. A global physical release is planned following the exclusive digital premiere […]
YouTube will be launching a new music streaming service on 22nd May in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea and a further rollout to Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK in the coming weeks. YouTube’s new music streaming services YouTube Music – a free ad-supported streaming service YouTube Music Premium – a paid membership that provides background listening, downloads and an ad-free […]
Spotify has announced a new hate and hateful conduct policy which aims to identify and remove hate content across its streaming platform. The company has partnered with a number of advocacy groups to help it police both content and artists who are seen as not reflecting Spotify’s values. Spotify’s aim is not to censor content because of an artist’s or creator’s behaviour but it wants ‘our editorial decisions – what we choose to program – […]
Global recorded music – key figures for 2017 Global revenue growth: +8.1% Digital share of global revenues: 54% Digital revenue growth: +19.1% Growth in streaming revenues: +41.1% Physical revenues: -5.4% Download revenue: -20.5% Global recorded music revenues increased by 8.1% in 2017 driven by a 41.1% increase in streaming revenues. With 176 million paying subscribers, streaming is now the record industry’s largest revenue source according to IFPI in its Global Music Report 2018. This is […]
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