Author archives: davide

Popular music is shrinking. From 2013 to 2018, the average song on the Billboard Hot 100 fell from 3 minutes and 50 seconds to about 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
Quartz

Spotify new Mysterious artists and tracks are showing up again on Spotify and being hacked into user accounts and playlists, apparently to generate fake streams and undeserved income, according to a new BBC report.
HypeBot

On dit le format démocratisé dans les années 1960 condamné à disparaître face à un modèle de streaming valorisant le single. Culturellement, il a pourtant encore de beaux jours devant lui.
Slate

Discover Weekly was a triumph of algorithm and curation, and now it’s an ad product.
Vox

The African Music Industry is very diverse. Making it “big” in the African music scene is almost impossible if an upcoming artist is not in contact with a “big player” in the industry.
Africa

The number of plays of classical music increased by more than 10% in 2018, with the genre growing faster than the UK music industry at large.
Independent

The collapse of HMV looks like a nail in the coffin for a music industry long declared “dead”. But music sales are higher than in the glory days of Britpop.
New Statesman

Figurer sur une «liste de lecture» très suivie de Spotify ou de Deezer est un formidable accélérateur de notoriété pour un artiste. Derrière ces playlists, des algorithmes évidemment, mais aussi des éditeurs en chair et en os, qu’il faut savoir convain…

Schools often rely upon the outsourced support of teachers from a music service, and so having an effective system for managing external staff is especially important.
Open Access Government

China’s music streaming market is remarkable on several fronts, including the vast size of the market, the high percentage of use of mobile devices for music, high smartphone penetration, prevalent mobile cell coverage (in urban areas), and aggressive …