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Apple Music has exclusively secured Snoop Dogg’s latest album… Apple Music’s latest artist exclusive comes from Snoop Dogg, with his 20-track ‘Coolaid’ album. Like many artists who have opted to give their music exclusively to Apple Music, Snoop will enjoy the platform’s enticing per-stream royalty rate. Other Apple Music exclusives include Drake’s ‘Views’ album which was exclusively […]
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Apple Music continues to secure artist exclusives… A report by Interscope Records has confirmed that Apple Music has secured another artist exclusive – this time with Chicago rapper, Dreezy. The album titled ‘No Hard Feelings’ will be available on the streaming platform as of July 15th. Apple Music will have a one-week exclusive before the album becomes more […]
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Platform hits 15m subscribers – growing by a million every monthThe post Apple Music turns up heat on Spotify with 15m subscribers appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
Today (June 13th) Apple announced that it has now surpassed 15 million subscribers. The news was revealed by Apple executive Eddy Cue announced the new number during a keynote at WWDC. What’s surprising about this milestone is just how quickly the service has managed to rack up millions of users. It was only in February of this […]
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DMN takes a closer look at the latest competitive moves by music streaming platforms… Streaming exclusives. Streaming exclusives have become a major strategy adopted by streaming services to bump subscriber numbers. Tidal have had Rihanna’s ANTI, Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, and Beyonce’s Lemonade as exclusives, and just this week Tidal released 15 Prince albums […]
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As a self-release storms the chart, what does the future hold for major rights-holders?
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The streaming battle continues… Apple Music Major update. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple are planning a complete overhaul of their Apple Music streaming service in a bid to gain dominance in the music streaming market. The rumour is that Apple is planning to unveil its major update this month at the Worldwide Developers […]
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Well users’ music is going AWOL, and Apple can’t figure out why, apparently… They even sent two engineers to a customer’s home after 122GB of his personal music collection deleted out of nowhere. James Pinkstone – the author of the blog Vellum Atlanta, was the customer who lost 122GB of his music. This prompted him […]
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Spotify’s growth accelerates since Apple Music launch… In a recent interview with Reuters Jonathan Forster, Vice President of Spotify says… “Since Apple Music started we’ve been growing quicker and adding more users than before.” DMN took a closer look at Spotify’s growth, and the numbers definitely indicate that Spotify’s growth has surged since Apple Music arrived in […]
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But Skepta’s Konnichiwa reigns at No.1 – and IS on Spotify
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