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Spotify’s playlist submission feature goes Live

03/11/2018

Spotify’s recent playlist submission feature which was made available as a beta has now completed its final testing and is now fully Live. The beta feature in Spotify for Artists gives artists, labels, and teams the ability to share new music directly with our editorial team for playlist consideration. Since the feature became available in July more than 67,000 artists and labels have submitted music. Since the beta began, over 10,000 artists have been added […]

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ARIA revamps Australian Charts

02/11/2018

ARIA, the Australian Recorded Industry Association, has revamped the way it compiles the Australian record charts giving greater emphasis to paid subscription stream over free ad-supported streams. These changes will be reflected for the first time in the ARIA Charts for the week ending 27th October 2018. The shift to a multi-level streaming approach to the ARIA Chart methodology is consistent with the global push to measure streams in a revenue-reflective and access-based manner. This […]

Spotify offers a free Google Home Mini to US Family subscribers

31/10/2018

Spotify offers a free Google Home Mini to US Spotify Premium for Family subscribers starting from 1st November until 31st December 2018. Starting today, Spotify are teaming up with Google Home to give Spotify Premium for Family master account owners in the US a Google Home Mini as part of their subscription. Music lovers across generations will be able to share their favourite music with the entire family, simply by asking their Google Home Mini […]

Steinway creates Apple Music Profile

31/10/2018

Steinway & Sons, award winning makers of pianos, have launched an Apple Music Curator Profile which will contain Steinway’s official playlists and a rotating monthly ‘Steinway Select’ playlist exclusive to Apple Music which will introduce millions of listeners to the best of piano music. The ‘Steinway Select’ playlist, refreshed monthly, will feature the finest new and classic performances across genres. The profile will also feature a mix of classical, jazz, popular, and mood-based playlists alongside […]

Spotify Premium gets streamlined navigation, personalised search and endless artist radio

30/10/2018

Spotify has announced three new features for its Spotify Premium apps which the streamer has started to roll out globally. The new features are: Streamlined navigation Spotify have refined the navigation to help people quickly find what they’re looking for. Subscribers can get great recommendations on Home, discover something new with Search, and access favourite songs, artists, playlists, and podcasts in Your Library. Personalised Search The redesigned Search page is the new one-stop destination for artists, […]

Global streaming subscriptions will reach 235m by end 2018

Global paid music streaming subs will reach 235 million by end 2018

29/10/2018

Music streaming continues to grow, with the number of paid streaming subscriptions on track to reach 235 million worldwide by the end of 2018, according to a new music market report from Futuresource Consulting. “Streaming subscriptions accounted for over half of all global spend on music last year, a segment which includes packaged music, pay-per-download singles and albums, and streaming music subscriptions,” says David Sidebottom, Principal Analyst at Futuresource Consulting. “In the first half of […]

DJs will be able to live mix SoundCloud streams

28/10/2018

SoundCloud is to partner with Native Instruments, Serato, Virtual DJ, DEX3, Mixvibes and Hercules, to integrate SoundCloud’s music catalogue into their leading DJ performance software. The integrations will enable able DJs to live mix SoundCloud streams of original tracks, DJ sets, mixes, and more in high quality using a SoundCloud Go+ subscription and professional DJ performance software. To support the integrations, SoundCloud has added higher quality audio streaming to SoundCloud Go+, its premium content subscription […]