Streaming Archives

Rolling Stone rolls out daily charts

10/07/2019

Rolling Stone rolls out daily charts with five new charts available auto-populating in almost real-time on a daily basis, with finalized overviews available at the end of each week. The Rolling Stone Charts announced by the music magazine are powered by its independent analytics company Alpha Data, formerly known as BuzzAngle Music, which collects and processes data from dozens of major suppliers. The company aims ‘to reflect the true impact of music, celebrate the artists […]

Apple Music creates African Legends hub

06/07/2019

Apple Music creates African Legends hub featuring playlists, albums and charts from the African continent’s greatest artists. Originally launched to coincide with this year’s Africa Day the hub contains the African Legends playlist with Fela Kuti’s funky Afrobeat, Brenda Fassie’s vivacious Afropop, Youssou N’Dour’s thrilling mbalax and Angélique Kidjo’s richly textured world fusion amongst other notable African artists. The African Legends hub consists of Essentials Playlists, Essentials Albums, Classic Singles, A Spotlight On and a […]

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Spotify for Artists Upload Beta to close

05/07/2019

Spotify for Artists Upload Beta to close with the streamer relying on its distribution partners to enable independent artists to upload their music to Spotify. In a blog posting, Spotify announced that the beta which started a year ago will be closing and that from the end of the month they will not be accepting any new uploads. All the participating artists have been informed of the closure and they are being encouraged to ‘lean […]

Convert2MP3 stream ripper closed down

03/07/2019

Convert2MP3 stream ripper closed down following action coordinated by IFPI and BVMI on behalf of their member record companies. The Germany-based site which had 684 million visits over the past 12 months and was one of the world’s most-used stream ripping sites has agreed to shut down, surrender its domains and not infringe the rights of record companies in the future. After legal action was brought in Germany against Convert2MP3 for large-scale and sustained violation […]

Get 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for 99p

02/07/2019

Get 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for 99p for a limited time only with the option of cancelling anytime. Ahead of Amazon Prime Day on the 15th and 16th July, Amazon have a promotional offer of 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Monthly Plan which is good to midnight on the 16th July 2019. The offer is available for Prime members who are also new Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers. After four months, your […]

The Classical Music Market report commissioned by IDAGIO

Is classical music streaming’s next genre?

01/07/2019

Is classical music streaming’s next genre? was the question asked by a MIDiA survey commissioned by classical music streamer IDAGIO. The results which are published in a 26 page report show that classical music streaming grew 46% in 2018 representing 37% of the total classical music market which is worth $384 million globally. The US was the largest classical music region with 38% of the global market revenue and 63% of the streaming market revenue. […]

IFPI joins music industry coalition to tackle stream manipulation

30/06/2019

IFPI joins music industry coalition to tackle stream manipulation and endorses the Anti-stream manipulation code of best practice. IFPI has joined a broad coalition of major and independent labels, publishers and artist organisations in signing up to an industry ‘code of best practice’ which aims to detect and prevent stream manipulation as well as mitigate its effects in the marketplace. The code outlines guidelines for stopping inauthentic plays on streaming services that are designed to […]