YouTube is charging TV fans $35 a month, while charging music fans… nothing.
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Category archives: Apple Music
Music subscriptions exploded in the US in 2016, as market generated $7.7bn
Apple Music and Spotify drive 114% growth in paid-for streaming
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Failure, or Opportunity? Just 3% of Apple Users Subscribe to Apple Music
If you’re Apple Music, don’t worry; a 3% adoption rate just means you’re about to blow up. Forget about the fact that Spotify has increased by 20 million in just one year. In a note to investors, RBC Capital Markets’ Amit Daryanani wrote that Apple would have to grow revenues from its services division by […]
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Apple Music Refuses to Stop Industry-Killing Exclusives
What happens when you throw $500,000 in a musician’s face? Well, they usually take it. But that doesn’t make it healthy for the music industry or music fans. And so we had another giant bombshell over the weekend. Chance the Rapper received $500,000 from Apple for making Coloring Book an iTunes and Apple Music exclusive. […]
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Apple Music Refuses to Stop Industry-Killing Exclusives
What happens when you throw $500,000 in a musician’s face? Well, they usually take it. But that doesn’t make it healthy for the music industry or music fans. And so we had another giant bombshell over the weekend. Chance the Rapper received $500,000 from Apple for making Coloring Book an iTunes and Apple Music exclusive. […]
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Remix licensing platform Dubset raises $4m from group led by Cue Ball Capital
Firm has previously struck agreements with Apple Music and Spotify
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Apple owns $246bn in cash. What’s it willing to spend on ruling the music business?
Tim Cook is ready to acquire and wants original content. What could that mean for music?
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Apple Music welcomes another ‘live’ radio station, via CBS Sports
CBS Sports Radio is a 24/7 channel that offers a live simulcast of national sports coverage and programming
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King No More: Apple Music and Spotify Overtake YouTube In Music Streaming
Has Google grown overconfident on YouTube? Have Apple Music and Spotify finally dethroned the controversial king of music streaming? Trusted market monitor BuzzAngle released a new report, and it’s not pretty. For the second straight time, American consumers pay more to Spotify and Apple Music for music streams than YouTube. The 2016 Year-End Report details […]
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You can now search Apple Music by composer
When tracks are in your library – songwriter info is attachedThe post You can now search Apple Music by composer appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.