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Spotify produces ‘behind the scenes’ podcasts

17/08/2020

Spotify produces ‘behind the scenes’ podcasts with the first three episodes of ‘Spotify: For the Record’ available to listen now. This new series features interviews with Spotify employees and industry experts who discuss cultural events, listening trends, the tech behind Spotify’s platform. The three episodes are: Artists & Creativity During COVID-19 During the COVID-19 pandemic, artists, producers, and venue owners are looking for and finding creative solutions to stay connected with fans. Katy Perry gives us a […]

Spotify creates track IDs for DJ playlists

16/08/2020

Spotify creates track IDs for DJ playlists co-curated between Spotify’s editorial team and DJs to provide the track IDs for their sets. Spotify has also created a new suite of playlists, all with track IDs which will take the guesswork out of identifying the tracks in dance and electronic music sets. Each playlist will also include original tracks from the DJ. In addition to allowing DJs to connect with fans in an entirely new way, […]

The Joe Rogan Experience is No 1 podcast in US

16/08/2020

The Joe Rogan Experience is No 1 podcast in US according to a recent survey by Edison Research. The Podcast Consumer Tracker (PCT) Q2 2020 Top 30 is based on 8,080 online interviews with a nationally representative sample of weekly podcast consumers in the US, aged 18 and older. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish between 24th June and 7th July 2020. The PCT is a comprehensive study of the reach of podcast networks and […]

Coronavirus lockdown produced a boom in subscriptions to video, music and games services

16/08/2020

The coronavirus lockdown produced a boom in subscriptions to video, music and games services according a guide from the Entertainment Retailers’ Association (ERA) about how the UK entertained itself in the first half of 2020. The data comes from ERA’s tracking study which has measured the entertainment choices of a representative panel of up to 2,000 consumers each quarter for the past seven years. The latest 28th wave of the research commenced on 25th May 2020, […]

Wear OS smart watches to lose Google Play Music

09/08/2020

Wear OS smart watches to lose Google Play Music in the next few weeks with no date for its replacement by YouTube Music. In a support note Google made the following announcement: “In the next couple of weeks, users will no longer be able to use or download Google Play Music on their Wear OS by Google smartwatches. Google is investing heavily in improving integrated music services through all of your connected devices with YouTube […]

Amazon Music launches [Re]Discover playlists

07/08/2020

Amazon Music launches [Re]Discover playlists containing artist catalogues across all music genres starting with Bob Marley as [Re]Discover Artist of the Month. Later in the year Marley’s iconic Legend album will be available to stream in 3D Audio exclusively on Amazon Music HD. [Re]Discover showcases carefully curated artist playlists across various genres and takes listeners on a career-spanning journey of musical discovery, or re-discovery, through the featured artist’s entire body of work. In addition, there […]

Digital music sales in Italy hit 85% during pandemic

06/08/2020

Digital music sales in Italy hit 85% during the pandemic with streaming increasing from 60% to 80% of sales in the first half of the year according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. This unprecedented shift to digital music is the result of the lockdown in Italy and its effect on the Italian record market. Subscription revenues have also increased by 33% in the first half of the year. The trend in Italy […]