Tuned Global says the world of branded music apps, serving niche audiences, could be a key growth driver for the industry in the years ahead
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Spotify has a patent for personality tracking technology – and it’s pretty creepy stuff
“Future research could begin to link streaming behavior with brain scanning, genetic, and physiological data.”
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Stat Of The Week: Music piracy hasn’t gone away – it’s just changed shape
New PRS report shows explosion in stream-ripping activity in market in past three years
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5 Things We Learned From Warner Music Group boss Steve Cooper at his Goldman Sachs interview
WMG’s Chief Executive was grilled today at the annual Goldman Sachs Communacopia event
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Stat Of The Week: TikTok and Spotify now neck-and-neck for users in Europe – but TikTok’s bigger in the US
TikTok now has over 100m MAUs apiece in Europe and the United States
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DJ’ing Through the Pandemic: How the Electronic Dance Community is Leading the Industry into Live Streaming
Beatport CEO, Robb McDaniels, on how the electronic music community is pushing a valuable new income stream for the business forward
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Stat Of The Week: Nearly a third of people in the US are using subscription music streaming accounts
Some 51% of the $10.3bn generated by streaming in 2019 was paid out to US labels and distributors
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Livestreaming is an obvious next move for Spotify. Here’s why it makes sense.
The scene appears set for Daniel Ek’s company to make its move into a burgeoning sector
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Stat Of The Week: The pandemic has hit the major labels this year… but they’re still generating over $1m per hour from streaming
What the majors’ H1 2020 results tell us about their financial strength amid the year of coronavirus
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Despite pandemic, Germany’s recorded music revenues grew 4.8% to $856m in the first half of 2020
Audio streaming now claims more than two thirds of Germany’s revenues
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