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Amazon Prime benefit for US students

21/08/2019

Amazon have introduced an Amazon Prime benefit for US students enabling them to get Amazon Music Unlimited for $0.99/month. College students can sign up for a six-month trial of Prime Student and enjoy fast, free delivery from Prime, thousands of movies and shows with Prime Video and ad-free music. Amazon have introduced a new music benefit for Prime Student members who can now subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited for an additional $0.99 per month. College […]

Deezer updates ‘Queue List’ feature

20/08/2019

Deezer updates ‘Queue List’ feature which syncs your tracks across multiple devices no matter how often you switch. Premium users listening to a track on mobile, tablet or desktop can change devices and listen to the same track without having to look for it. Each user’s queue list is now stored in the cloud, making it effortless to switch between mobile, web, desktop, smart watches (Apple Watch and Android Watch), In Car (Carplay and Android […]

Spotify for Podcasters platform launched

19/08/2019

Spotify has launched its Spotify for Podcasters platform which at its heart is a discovery and analytics dashboard. The new platform which has come out of beta is built to empower the podcasting community allowing it to continue innovating and sharing their work with the world. On the platform a user can both submit a show to Spotify and dive deep into engagement and demographic data for their podcast, tracking things like average listening times, […]

Apple renames ‘Mastered for iTunes’

18/08/2019

Apple renames ‘Mastered for iTunes’ calling it ‘Apple Digital Masters’ and grouping all tracks that have been encoded in one place. Mastered for iTunes was launched in 2012 and is a set of tools and guidelines that encouraged record producers to use studio quality 24-bit 96 kHz originals to produce the 256 kbps AAC files that iTunes streams. Despite many press reports Apple Digital Masters are not HiRes and there are no publicly announced plans […]

Physical entertainment market continues to decline in UK

17/08/2019

The physical entertainment market continues to decline in UK declining 19% in the 12 weeks to 30th June 2019 according to the retail analyst, Kantar, in a blog posting. This was put down to ‘falling shopper numbers and a lack of big-name release in the music, film and gaming sections. With Amazon Prime Day sales still to be accounted for and new consoles due later this year, the market continues to depend on gift-hunting shoppers […]

Deezer expands its Spanish content

16/08/2019

Deezer expands its Spanish content with new ‘Deezer Originals’ in Spanish together with special commentary, recordings and curated playlists all in Spanish. ‘Deezer Originals’ helps fans get closer to the world’s leading artists with never-before heard recordings and commentary. Deezer has previously featured artists like Dua Lipa, Gorillaz, Gavin James and George Ezra. Fans can now listen to popular Hispanic artists provide insightful commentary about their own albums. Artists like Natti Natasha, Juan Luis Guerra, […]

The Greatest Showman - Best selling album in first six months of 2019

UK consumers spend more than £100m a week on digital services

14/08/2019

UK consumers spend more than £100m a week on digital music, video and games in the first half of 2019, according to latest data from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA), a total of more than £2.7bn on streaming services, downloads and gaming credits. Add in expenditure on physical formats such as CD and DVD and retail revenues of the combined music, video and games sectors grew 4.5% to £3.3bn in the first six months of […]