March 2023

Sonos to support Apple Music spatial audio

10/03/2023

Sonos is to support Apple Music spatial audio starting from the 28th March 2023 representing a significant expansion of its next-gen sound experience offerings. Spatial audio delivers a multi-dimensional immersive sound experience that is fast becoming a primary recording format among leading artists, producers and engineers. Available on Sonos Era 300 (pictured above), Arc, and Beam (Gen 2), Apple Music with spatial audio will place listeners at the centre of their music with an ever-growing […]

UK recorded music revenues up 4.7% in 2022

10/03/2023

UK recorded music revenues up 4.7% in 2022 reaching £1.32 Bn according to a recent report by the BPI. This marked the sector’s eighth consecutive year of revenue growth, led by streaming. However, when adjusted for inflation, the figure falls hundreds of millions of pounds below the total reported in 2006. Growth in 2022 was again fuelled by climbing streaming revenues, which rose 6.3% year-on-year to £885 million and which now account for 67.2% of industry revenue – up from […]

US music revenues grew for 7th consecutive year

10/03/2023

US music revenues grew for 7th consecutive year in 2022 up 6% to a record high of $15.9 Bn according to figures released by the RIAA. Streaming continued to be the biggest driver of growth with record levels of paid subscriptions, continued growth in ad-supported format revenues and growing contributions from new platforms and services. Paid subscriptions continue to drive streaming growth Streaming continued to account for a large majority of recorded music revenues in 2022. […]

Sanctuary Radio

09/03/2023

Sanctuary Radio is a Canadian internet radio station offering three channels of CD Quality Lossless FLAC plus MP3 and AAC streams. Founded in March 1995, it is listener supported and commercial free. The website contains links to their social media, Sanctuary TV (which broadcasts videos of live events) and ways to donate. There are some alternative links on each channel page for those with players that either do or do not require SSL enabled. Website: […]

German music sales top €2 Bn in 2022

09/03/2023

German music sales top €2 Bn in 2022 again for the first time in 20 years according to the BVMI in recently released figures. Turnover was €2.07 Bn in 2022 from sales of CDs, vinyl LPs and downloads as well as revenues from the streaming business. It is for the first time in 20 years that the €2 Bn mark has been surpassed; the last time this was the case was in 2002 (€2.21 Bn). Compared […]

Radio BluesFlac

09/03/2023

Radio BluesFlac is specialist blues genre internet radio station broadcasting a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream. According to the station, they are “Broadcasting in FLAC to give the listeners the authentic CD quality sound the artists want.” The station is broadcast using Radio Mast’s CD Quality lossless FLAC hosting based in Canada and the station provides a web player, Android app and a streaming URL for use in media players Website: https://bluesflac.com/ Web app: https://bluesflac.com/ […]

Pure Lounge Radio

05/03/2023

Pure Lounge Radio is an internet radio station playing Lounge Music (70s, 80s, Disco, Soul, Funk and Luxury Jazz) and broadcasting a CD Quality Lossless FLAC and a 320kbps MP3 stream. Their website has a 320kbps webplayer and a recently played track list. Website: https://www.pureloungeradio.com/ Webplayer URL: https://www.pureloungeradio.com/ CD Quality Lossless FLAC: https://mscp4.live-streams.nl:8142/lounge.ogg 320kbps MP3: https://mscp4.live-streams.nl:8142/lounge.mp3 To find out more about CD Quality Internet Radio go here. To find out more about HiRes Internet Radio […]