HMV closes its Hong Kong stores giving the growth of streaming and the decline in physical sales as the main reason for the decision to wind up the business. HMV Digital China Group Ltd, the ultimate owners of the stores, applied to the Hong Kong Stock exchange to wind up HMV Marketing Ltd (HMV Retail) on the 18th December 2018. In its winding up petition the company declared that the revenue generated from HMV Retail […]
Relive your year in music with Spotify Wrapped 2018, a collection of the music and podcasts that formed your personal soundtrack in 2018. Wrapped is a customised, interactive experience based on the music you’ve listened to this year. You can guess, then check, how many total minutes you streamed, explore the number of new artists you discovered, your most-played songs and artists, and your top genres and then share your results to your Instagram, Twitter […]
Japanese charts to include streams and downloads from 19th December 2018. Chart rankings from Oricon, Japan’s official chart organisation, will add the number of CD sales, digital downloads and streams to produce three new weekly charts: a combined single chart a combined album chart a streaming chart The combined singles chart will be calculated using a points system where a CD single will count for 1 point, 2.5 song downloads will equal 1 point and […]
TIDAL launches My Mix playlist which is ‘a personalized curation of songs that offers an easy way to enjoy more of the music you love.’ My Mix is personalized to your specific listening habits to create the perfect mix based on your most recent listening patterns and what’s saved to your collection. This enhancement has been rolled out with a change in its Track and Artist Radio feature and an extension to its Black Friday […]
Pioneer extends MQA support to its networked streamers continuing the firmware updates it started in October 2018. The updates activate MQA audio playback capability and support for TIDAL Masters audio streaming on its network-enabled stereo hi-fi components. A paid TIDAL HiFi subscription is required to stream TIDAL Masters on MQA enabled Pioneer network HiFi audio equipment. MQA delivers HiRes sound in a file that’s small enough to stream and download. TIDAL Masters is TIDAL’s bandwidth-friendly […]
YouTube Music now offers YouTube Charts as playlists with local and global versions in all YouTube’s 29 launched markets. In addition to the recently announced YouTube Charts, users can now access the top most-played songs this week on YouTube, the most-viewed music videos, or see what’s trending. You can now easily access YouTube Charts as playlists that will appear on users’ home screens or by search. Every country will get five charts playlists: three specific to […]
Spotify’s Top Songs, Artists, Playlists and Podcasts of 2018 are published in a blog posting by the streamer and once again Hip-hop dominated its charts. Music lovers continued with some existing favourites, such as 2015 and 2016’s most-streamed artist, Drake, who took home the crown once again this year. With 8.2 billion streams in 2018 alone, the Canadian rapper is now Spotify’s most-streamed artist of all time. His album “Scorpion” and song “God’s Plan” took […]
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