Google publishes its top searches of 2023 as part of its Google Trends website which shows what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube. Below is a selection of the top Global, US and UK searches for Musicians and Songs. For other countries and categories go to the Google Trends website. Global Musicians 1) Shakira 2) Jason Aldean 3) Joe Jonas 4) Smash Mouth 5) Peppino di Capri 6) Gino Paoli 7) Tom Kaulitz […]
Apple Music comes to Nest devices in Canada so you can now ask Google Assistant on Google Nest and other Assistant-enabled smart speakers and displays to play your favourites on Apple Music. Apple Music subscribers can search and play songs, albums and playlists just by using their voice. You can also use your Google Assistant to play music by genre, mood or activity. To set up Apple Music on your device, first link your Apple Music […]
Wear OS smart watches to lose Google Play Music in the next few weeks with no date for its replacement by YouTube Music. In a support note Google made the following announcement: “In the next couple of weeks, users will no longer be able to use or download Google Play Music on their Wear OS by Google smartwatches. Google is investing heavily in improving integrated music services through all of your connected devices with YouTube […]
Google Play Music is to close later this year and users are being urged to transfer their music to YouTube Music according to a recent blog posting by the streamer. This has been some time in coming when it announced in 2017 that Google Play Music would be merged into YouTube Red, the predecessor of YouTube Music. When launched YouTube Music was a pale imitation of Google Play Music (GPM) but the upgrades which have […]
BPI reported over 500 million illegal music links to Google to Google with a request to remove them from the search engine’s listings. This was done as part of BPI’s mission to protect the UK music industry from the activities of illegal music sites which cost them an estimated £150 million a year in lost revenue. The BPI passed the milestone of the 500 millionth URL submitted to Google for delisting on behalf of UK artists and labels. The BPI […]
Move your music between Google devices and apps in their newly launched Stream Transfer feature which lets you easily move music, videos, podcasts and more between compatible devices in your home using your voice, the Google Home app or the touchscreen on your Nest smart display. In a recent blog posting Google writes that ‘Since 2013, we’ve been working to make it easier for people to play music and watch their favourite shows and videos […]
BBC pulls its podcasts from Google as part of a change of policy on third-party apps which it outlines in a blog posting. These are no longer available on the Google Podcast app and Google Assistant. Kieran Clifton, Director, BBC Distribution & Business Development explained in the post that since Google launched its own podcast app for Android users it, ‘since begun to direct people who search for a BBC podcast into its own podcast […]
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