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Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ video reaches 1 Billion views

06/08/2019

Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ video reaches 1 Billion views and is the first pre-1990s YouTube video to reach this milestone. The accompanying video for Queen’s 1975 single, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, is generally recognized as the first-ever promotional music video, kick-starting and setting the gold-standard for the genre for decades to come. Today, it continues to inspire and entertain millions of fans around the world, more than 40 years after it was first created. Speaking from the band’s […]

YouTube Music continues its international expansion

31/03/2019

YouTube Music continues its international expansion adding India, 12 Latin American countries and South Africa to its worldwide coverage. YouTube Music is being developed as a replacement to Google Play Music which is likely to be retired once the full rollout of YouTube Music is complete and all the Google Play Music functionality has been developed for YouTube Music. If you are a subscriber to Google Play Music, then you will get a YouTube Music […]

IFPI disputes Google’s YouTube payments

06/12/2018

IFPI disputes Google’s YouTube payments saying that its figures show that they are less than half those claimed by Google. In a response to Google’s Anti-Piracy Paper released earlier this month, IFPI Chief Executive, Frances Moore, said: “We welcome Google’s recognition that it and Google’s YouTube need to operate responsibly and properly value creators and their work. However, the figures in Google’s anti-piracy paper don’t match our own. “It is difficult to get any clarity […]

YouTube dominates music listening in Malta

17/09/2018

New research by PRS for Music, the performing rights society for songwriters and composers in Malta, shows that YouTube dominates music listening in Malta with 85% of people in Malta using YouTube in the last 3 months. Over a quarter of listeners (28%) used only YouTube to access music. By contrast, just 32% of people had used Google Play, while 28% had used Spotify. Only 14% of those surveyed had not used any digital music […]