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Spotify celebrates a Decade of Discovery

15/10/2018

Spotify launched ten years ago in October 2008 and is celebrating a Decade of Discovery with a Decade of Discovery playlist which features the most-streamed songs over the past 10 years, including favourites like Avicii’s Wake Me Up, Hozier’s Take Me To Church, Kendrick Lamar’s HUMBLE, Rihanna’s Work, Sia’s Chandelier, Major Lazer’s Lean On, the star-studded Despacito Remix, and more. Over the past ten years Spotify has introduced discovery features such as the Discover Weekly […]

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Ministry of Sound playlists come to Apple Music

13/10/2018

Apple Music has signed an exclusive deal with the Ministry of Sound to stream its popular dance playlists such as Dance Nation and Rave Nation. As a consequence of the deal these playlists, some of which have hundreds of thousands of followers, will be removed from Spotify and other non-Apple services over the course of the next few days. This is likely to disappoint a considerable number of Spotify subscribers as the Dance Nation playlist […]

TIDAL now streaming to Samsung TVs

12/10/2018

Two months after Samsung announced its partnership with Spotify, the electronics giant has brought TIDAL streaming to its range of TVs. The Samsung TV TIDAL app is ‘just the beginning of the partnership,’ according to TIDAL, and the aim is that the app will enhance the streaming service’s visual content. This follows on from its recently launched apps for the Amazon Fire TV App and Android Auto service in March this year. To set up […]

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IDAGIO’s classical streaming now available in the US and Canada

11/10/2018

IDAGIO, the classical music streamer is now available in the US and Canada following an additional €10 million investment by its existing investors bringing the total investment to over €20 million since its foundation in 2015. IDAGIO has licensing rights to all the major labels and more than a thousand independent labels and rightsholders offering more than a million classical tracks. It is continuing to grow its catalogue with the addition of 20,000 new tracks […]

Upload your music in Spotify for Artists beta

09/10/2018

Spotify has announced a new beta feature that enables independent artists to upload their music to Spotify – directly from Spotify for Artists. One of the top requested features since Spotify for Artists was launched is the ability to upload music directly onto Spotify. The company has been testing an upload tool within Spotify for Artists and is now inviting more artists to participate in a public beta. Spotify has worked with a handful of […]

US music sales up on continued streaming growth

05/10/2018

Latest figures from the US recorded music industry association, the RIAA, show continued growth in the first half of 2018 with retail sales up 10% to $4.6 billion. Streaming continued to be the engine for growth increasing 28% year on year to $3.4 billion and representing 75% of all revenues. Physical sales and downloads continued to decline with CD unit sales dropping a whopping 46.9% from 35 million to 18.6 million units. Vinyl sales continued […]

Bollywood and film music are top Indian genres

03/10/2018

Bollywood is still the most preferred music genre followed closely by other Indian film music according a recent study by the market research firm Nielsen. The Nielsen Music 360: India Study is an online study of consumer interaction with music in India. Data for this study was collected from the 14th June to the 4th July 2018 via online surveys using third-party panels. A total of 1,570 interviews were conducted among ‘Online Consumers’ 16-45 years […]