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Boomplay and Warner Music Group Licensing deal

Boomplay does licensing deal with Warner Music

17/03/2019

Boomplay does licensing deal with Warner Music adding Warner Music’s extensive catalogue of more than one million songs to its users in ten countries – Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Boomplay currently has 5 million songs in its catalogue with 42 million users. Claiming to be Africa’s largest music and streaming and download service this deal follows on from Boomplay’s recent licensing arrangement with Universal Music Group in […]

Uforia app now ‘Powered by Napster’

16/03/2019

Uforia app now ‘Powered by Napster’ as part of Univision and Napster’s partnership to enhance Univision’s digital platforms. Uforia which calls itself the ‘Home of Latin Music’ has had its app redesigned and its underlying technology upgraded and ‘Powered by Napster’ to create ‘the ultimate streaming destination for Hispanic America’. The app is part of the recently expanded Uforia brand, the biggest Latin music media platform in the US, including the nation’s No. 1 Hispanic […]

Canadian music achieves worldwide success in 2018

16/03/2019

Canadian music achieves worldwide success in 2018 with royalties increasing 15% over the previous year according to SOCAN, the Canadian rights management organisation. The company announced preliminary year-end results showing that it brought in and paid out record royalties to more members than ever, with combined domestic and international collections rising above 2017 figures by at least 11%. SOCAN members once again enjoyed sizable growth in their ‘export music’ – music played internationally. Total 2018 […]

Havana by Camila Cabello is best-selling single of 2018

15/03/2019

Havana by Camila Cabello (featuring Young Thug) is named best-selling digital single of 2018 by IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide. Released in 2017, Havana is the lead track from Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello’s eponymous debut solo album. Drawing on influences from Cabello’s Cuban heritage, the track, and the subsequent remix version with Spanish lyrics from Daddy Yankee, reached number one in 95 countries, rocketing Cabello to global solo success. In […]

TIDAL Masters now on iOS

14/03/2019

TIDAL Masters now on mobile with an iOS app with built-in MQA decoder to allow HiRes streaming on the move. The eagerly awaited update to TIDAL’s iOS app follows the recent Android news announced at CES in January 2019. With TIDAL Masters playback now accessible on iPhones and Android smartphones, as well as desktop and connected devices, studio quality sound is now available on all major platforms. Using a process called ‘music origami’, MQA’s technology […]

The German Music Market 2018 - Shares in Revenue

No growth for German music market in 2018

13/03/2019

The BVMI, Germany’s recorded music industry association has reported no growth for the German music market in 2018 which achieved sales of €1.582 Bn – a small decline of 0.4% less than in 2017. Final figures for 2018 show that audio streaming, which continued to soar (+ 33.5%), now accounts for 46.4% of the market with CDs still the second strongest seller with a market share of 36.4% despite a decline of around 20%. Downloads contributed […]

Spotify - 5 Fast Facts about Spotify and Samsung's Partnership expansion

Spotify expands Samsung partnership

12/03/2019

Spotify expands Samsung partnership providing easy access to Spotify on Samsung mobile devices. Additionally new Spotify consumers in the US with select Samsung Galaxy mobile devices, including the just-launched Galaxy S10, may qualify for six months of free Spotify Premium, redeemable in app. Those devices include the soon-to-be-released Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e, S10 5G, Galaxy Fold and select Galaxy A Series phones. Starting on 8th March 2019 Spotify also will be pre-installed on millions of […]