YouTube Music launches in the Middle East

Streaming music hits 74% of music sales in Spain during the first half of 2018 according to Promusicae, the Spanish record industry association. Sales of all music generated revenues of Euro 107.6 million during this period up only 0.4% on the same period in 2017. In common with the US and most western European countries, the growth in streaming has been accompanied by a growth in paid for subscription services which have increased by 53%. […]

SoundCloud adds more curated playlists which alongside personalized weekly recommendations from ‘SoundCloud Weekly’ and playlists like ‘Fresh Pressed’’ adds even more handcrafted playlists, curated by some of the leading names in music. SoundCloud now has 1.7 million unique creators heard each week and SoundCloud Premier creators will receive an an email with details on its new playlist submission form launching in beta. The form is currently only available to SoundCloud Premier creators and will roll […]

Deezer trials a karaoke app in France using its AI based Spleeter technology according to a recent blog posting by the streamer (in French). Spleeter uses AI techniques to separate vocal tracks from instrumental tracks and this has been incorporated into a dedicated karaoke app called Karaoke by Deezer. The recording process usually mixes a selection of separate tracks – vocals, drums, bass etc – to produce the final recorded song. Given the final mix, […]