Go straight to your music with Spotify Tap and start streaming exactly where you left off with one tap. Instead of turning on your phone’s Bluetooth, placing it in your pocket, shoving the buds in your ear, juggling your coffee to the other hand, and finally, reaching back into your pocket to grab your phone again to open up your Spotify app and press play – you can simply launch your next listening session with […]
Personalize Spotify playlists with Enhance, a new feature which assists listeners to add tracks to a new or existing playlist. Enhance brings together the best of you and Spotify, providing you with personalized recommendations to create playlists with ease while keeping you in control through an easy-to-navigate design. Simply turn these recommendations on or off with the tap of a button. And once Enhance is on, you’ll see your playlist populated with suggested songs that […]
Qobuz rolls out ‘My Weekly Q’ and ‘Carplay Online’ and announces reductions in all its subscription plans. ‘My Weekly Q’ is a musical recommendation feature which is adapted to each subscriber. Every Friday, Qobuz now offers its subscribers a personalised playlist that highlights musical discoveries based on listening to users with similar musical profiles. Using collaborative Artificial Intelligence, the musical experience of its subscribers will be enhanced by offering eclectic and personalised tracks. This feature […]
Paid subscriptions drive US streaming growth, up 27% in the first half of 2021 versus the prior year, from $5.6 to $7.1 billion at retail value. Figures released by the RIAA show that paid subscriptions continued to be the strongest contributor to growth, comprising nearly two-thirds of total revenue, and more than 80 million paid subscriptions for the first time. At wholesale value revenues rose 25%, from $3.7 billion in 1H 2020 to $4.6 billion […]
Streaming accounts for 12% of AM/FM radio listening in the US according to Edison Research in its Share of Ear study. The findings are based on measurements of what portion of listening to AM/FM content happens on a traditional radio receiver and how much is done on a digital device. The research methodology fully represents the US 13+ population, including not only those who are online but also those who are either not online or lightly […]
Download YouTube Music to Samsung smartwatches with their latest update running the unified version of Wear OS on devices such as the new Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic. YouTube Music Premium subscribers will enjoy access to more than 80 million songs and thousands of playlists on the new YouTube Music app on Wear OS. This standalone app is the first smartwatch app from YouTube Music that allows YouTube Music Premium subscribers to download music […]
Streaming makes up almost 80% of German music sales turning over €903.8 million in the first six months of 2021, an increase of 12.4% over the same period last year. This is according to figures released by the BVMI, Germany’s recorded music industry association. The strongest format on the market remains audio streaming, whose share of total sales is now 70.6% after further growth (+19.9 %). Downloads contribute only 3.3% to the total market after […]
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