June 2019

YouTube Music continues European expansion

SoundCloud Go+ continues its European expansion

10/06/2019

SoundCloud Go+ continues its European expansion with launches of its premium subscription plan in Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. SoundCloud Go+ is available through SoundCloud’s existing apps in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store, or by logging on to soundcloud.com/go. SoundCloud offers a free, 30-day trial of SoundCloud Go+, after which a monthly subscription fee applies: €9.99/€6.99(PT)/₣12.99 (Web/Android) or €12.99/€9.99(PT)/₣16.99 (iOS) per month. iOS users can avoid the App Store surcharge by […]

Heartbreak aids music discovery

09/06/2019

Heartbreak aids music discovery with two thirds (66%) of adults discovering new music after romantic breakups according to research by Deezer. Music is also important when forming relationships, with 21% of people on first dates pretending to know an artist or song. In an international survey of 8000 adults in Brazil, France, Germany and the US, Deezer found that music tastes change dramatically after a life-changing experience, with 66% of lonely hearts admitting that new […]

Spotify launches Stations radio app in US

08/06/2019

Spotify launches Stations radio app in US after trialling the Pandora like app in Australia during 2018. The app which is available in both iOS and Android versions is a simpler version of the Spotify app which aims to give easier access to playlists. In a Google Play announcement, the streamer states: “Easily create stations for all the music you love, all for free. With the world’s music at your fingertips, finding the right thing […]

Stream-ripping piracy continues to grow

05/06/2019

Stream ripping piracy continues to grow with the number of consumers acquiring unlicensed music in the US this way growing from 15 million in 2017 to 17 million in 2018. The figures come from a blog posting announcing the publishing of MusicWatch’s Annual Music Study. The use of legacy forms of piracy such as unlicensed download sites and Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing applications have largely become a thing of the past but the […]