Spotify opens Discover Weekly playlist up to brand sponsorship
Streaming giant Spotify just launched the sponsoring of its Discover Weekly algo-personalised playlist. The company explained: For the first time…
Deezer ended 2018 with seven million paying subscribers
Music-streaming service Deezer in 2018 reached seven million subscribers - which is to say, half of its 14 million monthly active users. The seven…
Ed Sheeran sued in the US for plagiarism of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"
British star Ed Sheeran is being sued by the estate of the late Ed Townsend, the producer who co-wrote "Let’s Get It On" with Marvin Gaye. Sheeran…
Spotify: 70% of Queen’s listeners are aged under 35
Streaming giant Spotify unveiled some figures about the audience on its service for Queen, following the rock band’s recent biopic-fuelled spike in…
BuzzAngle's year-end report reveals double-digit growth in US music consumption
Research firm BuzzAngle published its 2018 Year-End Report focused on music consumption in the US. The figures talk about a strong growth…
More than 1/4 of music streamed in the USA in 2018 was hip-hop
According to market monitor BuzzAngle, more than a quarter of all on-demand plays on music streaming services in the US in 2018 were hip-hop/rap…
Article 13: Vivendi, IFPI and others concerned
Earlier this week, we reported on the latest discussion points in Europe’s ‘trilogue’ process finalising its new copyright directive, including the…
YouTube Music: charts become playlists
YouTube’s subscription music service has a useful new feature. Indeed, its collection of music charts have been turned in to playlists: five in each…
CD Baby announces 2019 DIY Musician Conference in Austin
CD Baby just announced the 2019 DIY Musician Conference, which will take place for the first time in Austin, TX on August 16-18, at the…
Tencent Music now valued at $21.3bn: IPO raises $1.1bn
After a delay, Tencent Music is finally going public in 2018. The final numbers for the company’s US IPO are $1.1bn raised, after setting the…
Sony Music launches Mora Qualitas, its own streaming service in Japan
Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ) joined forces with Rhapsody International to launch the first on-demand, high resolution music streaming…
Independents' global share up to 39.9% according to Wintel
According to trade body WIN's latest Wintel report, independent labels' share of the global recorded-music market grew from 39.6% in 2016 to 39.9%…
Tencent Music plans to raise up to $1.2bn in its IPO
Tencent Music announced the terms of its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The company is planning to sell 82 million shares to investors (for a…
Brian Eno’s music app Bloom is back and updated
Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers - 10 years ago - launched their Bloom app for iPhone. It was a creative tool for "generative" music: when the app was…
YouTube launches student subscriptions
YouTube just launched cut-price subscriptions for students (only in the US for now). Full-time students at accredited colleges or universities will…
Viagogo can't sell Rammstein tickets in Germany
Secondary-ticketing firm Viagogo is facing a new storm, in Germany: indeed, a Hamburg court has ruled in favour of promoter MCT Agentur in a battle…
Huawei's music-streaming service has 100m users
Chinese tech company Huawei, according to CNBC interview with its consumer-division’s CEO Richard Yu, could be a new big player in the streaming…
Tencent Music IPO could slip to 2019
Chinese streaming giant Tencent Music is going public, but it's not clear if it will happen this year. The company delayed its planned IPO from…
Article 13: record industry attacks YouTube
Google-owned video platform, YouTube, claims that it paid out $1.8bn-plus to music rights-holders within the past 12 months - but the record…
IFPI and YouTube argue over $1.8bn-payments figure
Global music body IFPI has something to say about last week's Google report - specifically the claim that YouTube paid the music industry $1.8bn in…
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