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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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If Netflix were ever thinking of introducing ads, they should forget it… A study was conducted on user attitudes towards price inclines and increased ads on Netflix, and what effect this would have on the number of people paying for a subscription. More than 1,200 respondents on Reddit were involved in the study and the results […]
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Ok, streaming services you can have my album now… Adele has never been a fan of music streaming services and has admitted that she doesn’t use streaming services herself – she prefers to buy a physical CD or download a song or album. When discussing with TIME why she didn’t originally put her album on streaming […]
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But, is this enough to convert its 175 million users to its paid subscription service ‘SoundCloud Go’? Today (June 23rd), SoundCloud announced via their blog that they are amping up their discovery features across all of their platforms. The latest feature is called Suggested Tracks. The new feature is very similar to Spotify’s Discover as it […]
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Spotify service goes down…again. Today (June 22nd) Spotify has been experiencing technical difficulties, causing the streaming service to go down in areas of the UK, US and others places across the world, leaving users unable to stream music. Though the app allowed users to listen to music that was saved for offline playback, the service […]
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More people in the UK buy CDs as opposed to streaming music… According to research conducted by Kantar Worldpanel Entertainment, only 14% of people in the UK actually pay for a music streaming service. A survey population of 15,000 were sampled, and of the people that participated, 62% of the 14% of people who claimed that […]
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So, it’s official, Spotify have 100 million active users. The Swedish streaming service announced today (June 20th) that it’s subscriber base has grown to 100 million active users, despite strong competition from major rival Apple Music, which entered the music streaming market in June last year. This was followed by the addition of the high-fidelity streaming […]
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Spotify finally have Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool album they were waiting for… After much anticipation and early speculation, Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ is finally available on Spotify. Today (June 17th) ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ made its way to the streaming platform, over a month after being available on nearly every other streaming service. Spotify only […]
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Is YouTube finally paying attention to demands for fair pay? YouTube has been under fire for some time over low royalty payments and not fairly paying artists, amongst other things. As that complaint chorus intensifies, YouTube has found it necessary to respond to the public complaints over fair pay. YouTube’s response… “The voices of the artists are being […]
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DMN zooms in on what Spotify has been up to lately, and what this means for artists and fans… Healthy Subscriber growth. Spotify announced on March 21st that it had hit 30 million subscribers. DMN predicts that they have approximately 32 million paying users based on the fact that the streaming service has been adding 1 million […]
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