Streaming
(Hypebot) — Recent announcements of UMG experiments with music streamers Deezer and Tidal and subsequent interviews offer a glimpse of how the world’s ...
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Universal Music Group And Deezer Partner To Develop New Streaming Revenue Model
(Hypebot) — During an investment call Thursday, Universal Music announced that it had partnered with EU-based streaming music service Deezer to develop a ...
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What Do Spotify DJ & YouTube’s Radio Builder Mean For Broadcast Radio?
(Hypebot) — While broadcast radio still has a substantial audience, its numbers are declining partly because of on-demand music streaming, exacerbated, many would ...
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Where Have All The Music Fans Gone? A Visual Breakdown Of Music Consumption
(Hypebot) — Never has music consumption been so divided across literally dozens of services. So to have any chance of success, musicians and ...
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Rihanna’s Spotify Streams Spike 349% After Super Bowl Halftime
(Hypebot) — Rihanna took to the Super Bowl LVII’s halftime show stage Sunday with a medley of her hit tracks. Individual songs spiked ...
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It Turns Out 100,000 Tracks A Day Are NOT Uploaded To Spotify, Apple & Amazon Music
(Hypebot) — Late last year, the heads of UMG and Sony Music told the world that 100,000 tracks a day were being uploaded ...
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The Lefsetz Letter: The Billboard Power 100
The paper of record is as out of touch as the Grammys! Never have the labels and the people who run them had ...
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New ‘Friends’ Tab And CEO Daniel Ek Signal A More ‘Social’ Spotify
(Hypebot) — A new “Friends” tab and comments this week from CEO Daniel Ek point to Spotify becoming a much more social platform. ...
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UMG And TIDAL Team Up To Develop An Artist-Friendly Streaming Model
(Hypebot) — UMG is partnering with streaming service TIDAL to develop a new economic model for music streaming “that might better reward the ...
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Spotify Grows To 489M Users, 205M Paid Subscribers As Losses Jump 44%
(Hypebot) — Spotify ended 2022 with 489 million monthly users, including 205 million paid subscribers. But operating costs jumped 44%, and Q4 losses ...
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