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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 […]

Spotify subscribers hit 138 million in Q2 2020

03/08/2020

Spotify subscribers hit 138 million, a 27% increase year on year, according to its recently released Q2 2020 financial results. Monthly Active Users (MAU) increased 29% to 299 million. Revenue of €1,889 million was up 13% year on year in the quarter despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the quarter, Spotify increased its operations to 92 countries including Russia and 12 additional European countries. Latin America and Rest of World continue to see […]

Groups can stream simultaneously using Spotify’s Group Session

28/07/2020

Groups can stream simultaneously using Spotify’s Group Session beta release which enables groups of 2-5 users to share music and podcasts in real time. The first first beta version of Group Session back in May allowed groups of Spotify Premium users to share control of their listening sessions with others in real time. It even offered shared opportunities for collaboration among all the listeners. In this release Spotify Premium users around the world can tune […]

Deezer creates ‘Black Culture’ channel

28/07/2020

Deezer creates ‘Black Culture’ channel reinforcing the streamer’s commitment to Black artists and podcasters. The streamer is taking action to support black artists and creators and in June this year Deezer removed the term ‘Urban’ explaining that it’s an outdated word and is something they have banned internally and stopped using externally. With its new ‘Black Culture’ channel, Deezer has committed to promoting audio content from the most talented black creators around the world. Its […]