Germany increased streaming by 27% in 2019 with an overall increase in revenue for the year of 8.2% according to figures released by the BVMI, the German record industry association. Total revenue for the year came to €1.623 Bn. After two years of minimal decline in 2017 and 2018, the fourth largest music market in the world followed the positive global trend of the past few years in 2019. Several factors contributed to this growth […]
Streaming now accounts for 80% of music revenue in US growing 19.9% to $8.8 Bn in 2019 according to the RIAA’s 2019 year end report. Revenues from recorded music in the US grew 13% in 2019 from $9.8 billion to $11.1 billion representing the fourth year in a row of double digit growth. Growth was fuelled by paid subscription services which reached more than 60 million. Paid subscriptions to on-demand streaming services contributed by far […]
Spotify delivers 41 Bn K-Pop streams since January 2014 increasing the genre’s share of listening by more than 1800% according to a recent blog post by the streamer. K-Pop, which originated in South Korea, has taken on a life of its own thanks to East-meets-West collaborations from BTS and US singer-songwriter Halsey, whose ‘Boy With Luv’ track has over 380 million streams. The popularity of the genre continues to grow as more and more fans […]
Qobuz drops the price of its Premier service offering a HiRes and CD Quality streaming service in the UK for £14.99 a month or £149.99 with a yearly plan. In addition, the streamer will be dropping its MP3 streaming service ‘to focus on delivering best-in-class studio quality audio’. The streaming service will offer CD-quality (lossless) or HiRes (from 24-bit/44.1 kHz up to 192 kHz studio quality) on its new Studio Premier plan, for its first […]
Country Music streaming grew by 36% in US in 2019 with radio listeners having more contemporary tastes than on-demand streamers according to a recent report from P1 Media Group. Yet despite the general trend to playing more contemporary music, Country Radio missed the immense popularity of Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ which spent 19 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The findings were based on MRC Data/Nielsen Music Top 500 most played […]
Spotify syncs lyrics to the music using the Musixmatch lyrics platform so you can read or sing along as the track plays. This feature is being gradually rolled out on the platform and the feature won’t work for all tracks on Spotify, but supported songs will be indexed with a LYRICS tag much like the EXPLICIT tag in playlists. You can read the lyrics from the Now Playing section, just below the cover art and […]
Upload your music collection to YouTube Music where you can create and stream your own personal music library in a soon to be released upgrade to the app. Once your music is uploaded, you can use YouTube Music to play your uploaded music as part of your listening experience. Google has announced it will eventually be replacing Google Play Music with YouTube Music and has been adding new features since its launch. No date has been […]
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