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Spotify produces ‘behind the scenes’ podcasts

17/08/2020

Spotify produces ‘behind the scenes’ podcasts with the first three episodes of ‘Spotify: For the Record’ available to listen now. This new series features interviews with Spotify employees and industry experts who discuss cultural events, listening trends, the tech behind Spotify’s platform. The three episodes are: Artists & Creativity During COVID-19 During the COVID-19 pandemic, artists, producers, and venue owners are looking for and finding creative solutions to stay connected with fans. Katy Perry gives us a […]

Spotify creates track IDs for DJ playlists

16/08/2020

Spotify creates track IDs for DJ playlists co-curated between Spotify’s editorial team and DJs to provide the track IDs for their sets. Spotify has also created a new suite of playlists, all with track IDs which will take the guesswork out of identifying the tracks in dance and electronic music sets. Each playlist will also include original tracks from the DJ. In addition to allowing DJs to connect with fans in an entirely new way, […]

Wear OS smart watches to lose Google Play Music

09/08/2020

Wear OS smart watches to lose Google Play Music in the next few weeks with no date for its replacement by YouTube Music. In a support note Google made the following announcement: “In the next couple of weeks, users will no longer be able to use or download Google Play Music on their Wear OS by Google smartwatches. Google is investing heavily in improving integrated music services through all of your connected devices with YouTube […]

Amazon Music launches [Re]Discover playlists

07/08/2020

Amazon Music launches [Re]Discover playlists containing artist catalogues across all music genres starting with Bob Marley as [Re]Discover Artist of the Month. Later in the year Marley’s iconic Legend album will be available to stream in 3D Audio exclusively on Amazon Music HD. [Re]Discover showcases carefully curated artist playlists across various genres and takes listeners on a career-spanning journey of musical discovery, or re-discovery, through the featured artist’s entire body of work. In addition, there […]

Digital music sales in Italy hit 85% during pandemic

06/08/2020

Digital music sales in Italy hit 85% during the pandemic with streaming increasing from 60% to 80% of sales in the first half of the year according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. This unprecedented shift to digital music is the result of the lockdown in Italy and its effect on the Italian record market. Subscription revenues have also increased by 33% in the first half of the year. The trend in Italy […]

Radio listening declined in UK during pandemic

06/08/2020

Radio listening declined in UK during pandemic because of lockdown according to Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator. In Ofcom’s third annual Media Nations research report it reviews trends in the TV and online video sectors as well as radio and other audio sectors. Radio listening key findings Radio listening was broadly resilient during lockdown, but the sector will need to weather the advertising market downturn exacerbated by COVID-19. • 14% of online adults stopped listening […]

Google Play Music starts phased shutdown

04/08/2020

Google Play Music starts phased shutdown with YouTube Music replacing Google Play Music by the end of 2020. Google Play Music users have been able to transfer their music libraries, personal taste preferences and playlists to YouTube Music since the beginning of the year. The shutdown of Google Play Music will happen by December 2020 and users of the service will have transfer their music libraries by that time. In the coming months, Google Play […]