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US Latin music grew 15% in first half of 2023

29/09/2023

The US Latin music market grew 15% in first half of 2023 with paid subscriptions accounting for two thirds of the streaming market according to the RIAA, the US recording industry association. During this period revenues from Latin music in the US grew to $627 million and represents 7.5% of the total US music market up from 7.1% in the first half of 2022. Paid subscriptions comprised more than two-thirds of total Latin music revenues, and […]

US recorded music revenues up 9.3% in first half of 2023

20/09/2023

US recorded music revenues up 9.3% in first half of 2023 generating $8.4 Bn at estimated retail value according to the RIAA. The number of paid subscriptions grew to a record high of 96 million, with revenues up 11% to $5.5 Bn and comprising almost three quarters of the first half total. At wholesale value, revenues grew 8.3% to $5.3 Bn. Streaming Revenues from streaming services made up 84% of total recorded music revenues in the […]

K-Free

31/08/2023

K-Free is an internet radio station broadcasting Christian and Contemporary music based in Peoria, Arizona with an HLS encoded CD Quality FLAC stream using StreamS technology. Their website has a webplayer for the FLAC stream and also links for an AAC webplayer and Alexa. The FLAC stream was successfully tested with VLC but foobar would not play the stream. Other media players/network stream devices and browsers may encounter similar problems unless HLS is specifically supported. […]

Classical 90.5 FM

26/08/2023

Classical 90.5 FM is one of three radio stations broadcast both over the air and on internet radio by azpm.org. azpm is a US public broadcaster and a member of both PBS and NPR and is based in Tucson, Arizona. Classical 90.5 FM is as its name suggests dedicated to classical music and broadcasts an HLS encoded CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream using StreamS technology. It also has a 128kbps AAC-LC stream powered by StreamS. […]

Gen Z Americans discover podcasts through social media

25/06/2023

Gen Z Americans discover podcasts through social media with 24 million regular monthly listeners according to a recent report from Edison Research in partnership with  SXM Media. The Gen Z Podcast Listener Report is based on a survey of 1003 US individuals aged between 13 and 24 during April 2023 plus a number of in-depth interviews. Key findings from the report 47% of the Gen Z (age 13-24) online population in the US are monthly podcast listeners, […]

Enlighten Radio

02/06/2023

Enlighten Radio is an internet radio station with an eclectic mix of ‘Progressive Rebel Radio, Talk, Stories, Science, Jazz, Blues and Bluegrass from the Red Caboose Studio in West Virginia, USA’. It used to broadcast a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream both as a direct link and a webplayer but this has been downgraded to a 128kbps MP3 stream. The website has recently been updated to include a programme guide (in blogroll format) to help […]

SomaFM

26/05/2023

SomaFM is a San Francisco based internet radio station broadcasting 39 channels of music in a wide range of genres including 70’s, alternative, ambient, Americana, folk, jazz, rock and many more. The station is listener supported relying on voluntary contributions from its listeners and when we tuned in at noon (UK BST) they had some 7.5k listeners. The station offers a wide range of audio formats including 128kbps and 256kbps MP3 and 32kbps 64kbps and […]