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Qobuz expands into Latin America and Portugal

05/05/2022

Qobuz expands into Latin America and Portugal with the opening of its service in six new countries – five in Latin America and one in Europe, doubling the number of markets covered in two years. Supported by its recent fundraising of £18.4 million, Qobuz is continuing to expand. After its launch in Australia, New Zealand and the Nordic countries in April 2021, plus the acquisition of the Japanese high-resolution download service e-onkyo music, the French platform […]

Dance Wave

20/04/2022

Dance Wave is a new Dance and Electronic music internet radio station broadcasting two programmes of dance music in CD Quality Lossless FLAC plus 128kbps MP3, ~150kbps Ogg, 64kbps AAC+ and ~110kbps Opus streams. It offers two channels of Dance Music – Dance Wave and Dance Wave Retro! Dance Wave offers mainly Dance, House, Deep House, Trance and more electronic music and Dance Wave Retro! is ‘All about dance before 2000!’ featuring 90’s, Eurodance, Dance, […]

UK Indie music has fourth consecutive year of growth

15/04/2022

UK Indie music has fourth consecutive year of growth is one of the insights from the BPI’s recently published annual yearbook All About the Music 2022. This and other observations are based on data from the Official Chart Company and shows that: Independent labels’ share of the UK music market grew to just under 27% in 2021, boosted by classic LP releases and 60 indie albums entering the Top 10 Official Albums Chart Independents’ share […]

The US Latin music market grew 35% in 2021

14/04/2022

The US Latin music market grew 35% in 2021 continuing a 6-year trend of double-digit growth according to the RIAA, the American recorded music industry association. Although $886 million marks an all time high, 2021 revenues adjusted for inflation remain 15% below the value of Latin’s strongest year in 2005. Latin’s share of US music revenues grew to 5.9% up from 5.4% in 2020. Revenues from streaming formats grew by 36% to an all-time high […]

Amazon Music to increase some plans

14/04/2022

Amazon Music is to increase some plans from the 5th May affecting mainly Single Device and Prime discounted subscriptions. The affected Amazon Music Unlimited plans in the UK are: The Amazon Music Single-Device Plan is changing from £3.99 to £4.99 per month. The Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Plan (discounted price for Amazon Prime members) is changing from £7.99 to £8.99 per month, or from £79 to £89 per year. The updated pricing starts on the 5th May 2022 and existing subscriber will begin seeing the […]

Spotify adds personalized Canvas Loops to Home screen

13/04/2022

Spotify adds personalized Canvas Loops to Home screen in a beta rollout to UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Spotify is adding to it discovery features like Blend which allow you to mash up your musical tastes with friends, family, and even the artists you listen to, Enhance which breathes new life into playlists by adding a personalized collection of songs to your existing picks and Canvas’s visual loops which let you experience songs from your favourite […]

Deezer launches in-app Lyrics Translation

12/04/2022

In a first, Deezer launches in-app Lyrics Translation with initially English to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish being available. Deezer started offering integrated time-synced lyrics on its platform in 2014 and has now taken this a step further by being the first streamer to offer in-app translation of lyrics. Users no longer have to compromise the meaning of a song or its lyrics when streaming music in its original language. With just a simple click, […]