January 2021

Pandora’s Thumbprint Radio marks 5th anniversary

31/01/2021

Pandora’s Thumbprint Radio marks 5th anniversary achieving 50 Million users and 2 Bn+ listening hours since its launch. It was launched as a new kind of hyper-personalized music station for Pandora users, one that’s based on the songs that each listener has thumbed-up to let Pandora know which ones they love the most. Thumbprint Radio takes songs that you’ve thumbed-up across all of your stations since you first became a Pandora user mixed with an ever-updating […]

Discover kid-friendly entertainment options

31/01/2021

Discover kid-friendly entertainment options with the Spotify Kids Content Explorer a fun and engaging new way to preview some of the music in the Spotify Kids app before you download it. Once you’ve landed on the Spotify Kids Content Explorer experience, select the age of your child, just like you would in the app itself. You will be offered tailored audio suggestions for both older and younger kids. From there, pick an emoji that represents […]

Deezer introduces search by lyrics

28/01/2021

Deezer introduces search by lyrics in a feature called ‘Find My Song’. The feature is available for all tracks that include sing-along-lyrics. Go to the search bar and type at least four words from the song’s lyrics and Deezer will help you find your desired track. The new feature is available for web users on Deezer’s website right now and will soon be arriving for desktop app users in the coming weeks. Matthieu Gorvan, Deezer’s […]

Streaming has added £3.5 Bn to UK music industry

26/01/2021

Streaming has added £3.5 Bn to UK music industry according to an ERA report to UK Parliament’s Digital, Media, Culture and Sport Committee enquiry into the economics of music streaming. The submission explains that around 70% of revenues of streaming services are paid direct to the music industry via record companies, music publishers and collection societies. “Streaming services typically have no direct financial relationship with artists or songwriters, and are not privy to those contracts,” it says. […]

More UK artists reap the rewards of streaming

25/01/2021

More UK artists reap the rewards of streaming with 1,800 artists achieving more than 10 million streams in the UK alone in the past 12 months according to data compiled by the BPI. This is 72% more than the total of 1,048 artists who achieved the equivalent 10,000 album sales in the CD, LP and download market of 2007. Streaming has also made the market more ‘democratic’ – the top 10 artists dominated less of […]

95% of Top 20 albums in France are locally produced

20/01/2021

95% of Top 20 albums in France are locally produced for the 3rd year in a row in 2020 and all sung in French according to SNEP, the French music industry association. Despite the unusual circumstances caused by the pandemic, there was a continued appetite for locally produced music with 80% of the Top 200 albums being produced in France (same as 2019). This continues a trend over the past 6 years where 17 to […]

Streaming during 2020 was up 31.8% in Italy

17/01/2021

Streaming during 2020 was up 31.8% in Italy reaching a record 1Bn streams per week during the last weeks of 2020 according to FIMI, the Italian music industry association. According to data compiled by GfK data for the association, premium streaming dominated the market this year with a growth of 31.8%, while free streaming was up 9%. The lockdown and the related closure of many stores has slowed down the sales of physical media which after months […]