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Music Downloads Had A Short And Unhappy Life

Posted by Hypebot - May 13, 2018

Data shows that interactive streaming has become the dominant form of music consumption, largely replacing previous means of listening, and causing us to  ...

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SoundExchange’s Mark Eisenberg Tapped For Senior Content Role At SoundCloud

Posted by Ian Courtney - May 11, 2018

NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) — SoundCloud has hired veteran music exec Mark Eisenberg as Senior Vice President, Content Partnerships at the streaming music service.  ...

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TIDAL Settles Legal Dispute With The Prince Estate, To Debut New Material

Posted by Ian Courtney - May 11, 2018

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (CelebrityAccess) — The estate of the late rock icon Prince and Jay-Z’s TIDAL announced plans to debut previously unreleased Prince music  ...

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YouTube Music Charts Makeover Offers Unfiltered Billboard Chart Alternative

Posted by Ian Courtney - May 11, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO (Hypebot) — YouTube this week launched new and revamped music charts in 44 countries, as part of what is likely the  ...

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AST Acquires Data Patent Portfolios From Napster & Intertainer

Posted by Juliette Jagger - May 11, 2018

PRINCETON, NJ (CelebrityAccess) AST, the leading provider of proactive patent risk mitigation solutions, has announced the organization has acquired two streaming multimedia patent  ...

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What Sweden Has To Tell Us About Streaming’s Future

Posted by Hypebot - May 10, 2018

STOCKOLM, Sweden (Hypebot) — Although none of it is shocking new data from the most recent IFPI study has given us a glimpse  ...

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Spotify Pulls Music From R. Kelly And XXXTentacion From Its Official Playlists

Posted by Ian Courtney - May 10, 2018

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (CelebrityAccess) — On Thursday, streaming music giant Spotify announced plans to remove controversial R&B artist R. Kelly’s music from its curated  ...

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TuneGo Launches Invite-Only Artist Discovery Platform

Posted by Ian Courtney - May 9, 2018

LAS VEGAS (CelebrityAccess) — TuneGO Inc., an artist discovery platform which bills itself as a way for the music industry to identify rising  ...

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Eventbrite Partners With Instagram

Posted by Ian Courtney - May 9, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (CelebrityAccess) — Social media giant Instagram is partnering with Eventbrite in a new program to help drive ticket sales through  ...

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Majors Sell More Than $1bn In Spotify Shares

Posted by CelebrityAccess Staff Writers - May 9, 2018

NEW YORK (VIP-NEWS) — Sony and Warner Music Group have sold more than a billion dollar’s worth of their shares in Spotify, but  ...

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