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Deezer releases My Deezer Year 2024

11/12/2024

Deezer releases My Deezer Year 2024, presenting the biggest sounds of the year and a personal review of your own taste in music. Key statistics for 2024 On average people listened to 70 hours of music globally on Deezer, racking up 400 songs from nearly 170 artists. Generally, people discovered close to 80 new songs and almost 3% of all Deezer subscribers are a superfan of one or more artists. Superstars still dominated the charts, […]

Spotify becomes default streaming service in Opera browser

10/12/2024

Spotify becomes default streaming service in Opera browser as part of a new partnership for the Oslo-based browser company. This makes it easier than ever for users to listen to their favourite music, podcasts, and audiobooks while browsing on their computers. Opera users in selected countries are also getting the chance to try out Spotify Premium for free for a limited time, unlocking ad-free music, the ability to download playlists and albums to listen offline, […]

Amazon Music subscribers to get one free audiobook a month

10/12/2024

Amazon Music subscribers to get one free audiobook a month in the UK, US and Canada from Audible’s catalogue of more than 800,000 of the most popular audiobooks in the world. A subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited now contains access to the Audible catalogue, more than 100 million songs in CD Quality and HiRes Lossless FLAC, the most top podcasts ad-free and music and audiobooks in spatial audio. Available now, Amazon Music Unlimited individual plan […]

SoundCloud releases ‘Your SoundCloud 2024’

09/12/2024

SoundCloud releases ‘Your SoundCloud 2024’ with personalised statistics of your most listened to artists, tracks, genres and moods. Your SoundCloud showcases Top 5 listened artists Top 5 listened tracks Top 5 listened genres Top 5 listened moods Total listening time Additionally, users will have a dedicated homepage module featuring their previous year’s Playback Playlist, allowing them to revisit their top 50 tracks and take a nostalgic trip down memory lane. To access Your SoundCloud make […]

Shazam hits 100 Bn song recognitions

09/12/2024

Shazam hits 100 Bn song recognitions since it launched which is equivalent to 12 songs identified for every person on Earth. Or to put it another way, a person would need to use Shazam to identify a song every second for 3,168 years to reach 100 Bn recognitions. Shazam’s top song ever, “Dance Monkey,” has over 45 million tags and Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” was the first track released this year to hit 10 million […]

Spotify rolls out new TikTok and Instagram integrations

23/11/2024

Spotify rolls out new TikTok and Instagram integrations making sharing and saving easier for music, podcasts and audiobooks. Share your favourite content to TikTok Spotify users can share their favourite music, podcasts, and audiobooks directly from Spotify to TikTok. With this new integration, there are two ways to do that: Users can post to the TikTok Feed (FYP or Stories) by sharing tracks, albums, playlists, podcasts, or audiobooks using TikTok’s popular green screen feature or Photo […]

Mother Earth Radio releases new Android app

17/11/2024

Mother Earth Radio releases new Android app offering full metadata display and up to 192kHz sampling rate in high resolution FLAC or AAC/mpeg4 format. You can choose from four channels – eclectic, instrumental, jazz and classical with Mother Earth’s unique 429Hz tuning for meditation, relaxing and sleep improvement. For a detailed explanation as to why 429Hz go here. New additions to the app include: Song history and song requests for mobile devices above Android 8.0 […]