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DEEZER to be streaming partner for SSE Hydro, Glasgow

27/10/2018

DEEZER is to be the streaming partner for the SSE Hydro venue in Glasgow to provide playlists and content to concert goers to enhance their pre and post-concert experience. The SSE Hydro is the largest purpose-built entertainment venue in Scotland and ranks as a Top 10 global venue attracting an audience of more than a million visitors each year. Online visitors can head to the SSE Hydro website to access a large range of artist-focused […]

Amazon Australia launches Prime Music

26/10/2018

Amazon Australia has launched Prime Music bringing a catalogue of more than two million songs and hundreds of hand-curated playlists and stations, ad-free and on-demand with unlimited skips by today’s best-selling artists to Prime members. Prime Music is included in every new and existing Prime membership at no additional cost. Prime Music has been customised for the Australian market and offers numerous hand-curated playlists and stations built specifically for the Australian music fan, including the […]

Spotify app for Wear OS smartwatches

25/10/2018

Spotify is rolling out a new app for smartwatches on Wear OS by Google leaving you free to run, dance, shop, socialize and control your music at the same time. The streamer has partnered with Fossil Group to bring the Spotify experience in a standalone app for Wear OS by Google smartwatches to even more users. Starting in November, Spotify will be auto-installed on all Fossil Gen 4 Smartwatches and Michael Kors Access Runway Smartwatches. […]

US Latin music market grows 15% in first half of 2018

24/10/2018

The Latin music market continued its remarkable transformation in the first half of 2018 with revenues growing 15% to $135 million driven by paid streaming formats, according to a recent report from the RIAA, the US recording industry association. Streaming represented a remarkable 91% of the entire market. Latin music has become a worldwide phenomenon, driven by a diverse streaming market and Latin labels making smart investments to support their artists’ global ambitions. Similar to […]

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SiriusXM acquires Pandora for $3.5 Bn

23/10/2018

SiriusXM acquires Pandora in an all-stock transaction valuing Pandora at $3.5 Bn to create the world’s largest audio entertainment company. The combined company will merge the largest US audio streaming platform with SiriusXM’s strong in-car presence and have an expected turnover of more than $7 Bn in 2018. The combined company has a market value of about $34 Bn, topping Spotify’s $31.2 Bn and follows an initial purchase by SiriusXM of a 15% stake in […]

SoundCloud upgrades its audio quality

22/10/2018

SoundCloud has upgraded its audio quality for its SoundCloud Go+ subscribers with 256kbps AAC streams available when the original file has been uploaded in a lossless format. Only tracks uploaded in lossless formats such as WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC or a high bitrate will be available for streaming in this higher quality. SoundCloud HQ (High Quality) audio streaming is only available to Go+ subscribers and is in addition to ad-free listening, offline sync and full […]

Apple completes Shazam acquisition

21/10/2018

Apple announced that it has completed its acquisition of Shazam, the song recognition app with a user base of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music said, “Apple and Shazam have a long history together. Shazam was one of the first apps available when we launched the App Store and has become a favorite app for music fans everywhere, With a shared love of music and innovation, we […]