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Samsung wireless speakers and soundbars that can play DEEZER HiFi

Samsung brings Deezer’s lossless streaming to its wireless speakers

19/07/2018

Samsung Electronics brings DEEZER’s lossless streaming to its soundbars and wireless speakers. Samsung has integrated DEEZER’s CD quality (lossless FLAC) streaming service into its latest wireless speakers and soundbars. All DEEZER’s features including personalized playlists, recommendations and its unique DEEZER Flow are available in 16 bit/44.1kHz lossless audio. Deezer launches Flow Tabs Deezer HiFi features 16 bit/44.1kHz CD Quality lossless audio (FLAC) 36 million songs streaming in FLAC quality Streaming on compatible WiFi speakers […]

Drake becomes first artist to achieve 1 billion streams in one week

Drake shatters streaming record

17/07/2018

UPDATE 17/07/2018: Drake’s Scorpion album achieved another first when he confirmed on Instagram that his album was streamed over a billion times worldwide in its opening week. Spotify accounted for 573 million streams with Apple Music notching up 498 million streams. Streaming figures for the first week of release in the US were 321 million on Spotify and 401 million on Apple Music. On its first day of release, Drake’s Scorpion shattered both Spotify’s and Apple […]

AirPlay 2 comes to Sonos Speakers

17/07/2018

AirPlay 2 comes to Sonos speakers allowing you to stream and control music from your iPhone or iPad to any AirPlay compatible Sonos speaker. The list of supported speakers is currently Sonos One, Beam, Playbase, and the second generation Play:5. This new development comes hard on the heels of the company’s announcement that it intends to go public. Sonos files to go public Five new AirPlay 2 features 1. Play music from AirPlay compatible […]

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Sonos files to go public

07/07/2018

Sonos filed papers with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO). The multi-room audio company was founded in 2002 and by 31st March this year had sold 19 million products in roughly 6.9 million households around the world. Despite being the leading company in the multi-room audio business with sales of $992.5 million in revenue in the 2017 – a 10% increase on 2016 – it wasn’t enough to turn […]

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US streaming continues to grow

07/07/2018

On-demand streaming in the US rose by 45% during the first half of 2018 according to market researchers, Nielsen, in their Music Mid-Year Report. Total album equivalent consumption*, which includes physical and digital album sales, song sales and on-demand audio and video song streams are up 18% during the same period. On-demand song streaming activity reached new milestones, with volumes surpassing 400 billion, offsetting declines in album and track sales. On-demand audio streaming volume was […]

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YouTube Music and YouTube Premium launch in 17 countries

29/06/2018

YouTube Music and YouTube Premium launched in 17 countries on 18th June 2018. Both services are available in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK. In South Korea there is only a YouTube Premium subscription available which will be at the current price of YouTube Red. Apps for iOs and Android are available from the Play Store and App Store. A new […]

BBC Sounds App launched as iPlayer Radio replacement

29/06/2018

The BBC has soft launched BBC Sounds, a new audio app intended to replace the BBC iPlayer Radio. BBC Sounds brings together BBC live and on-demand radio, music and podcasts into a single personalised app which is available in iOS and Android versions. BBC Sounds is designed to learn from the user’s listening habits, providing one-tap access to the latest episodes of favourite BBC podcasts and radio shows and making available an 80,000 hour library […]