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The latest executive shuffles across the music industry… International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has appointed Dr David Price as Director of Insights and Analysis. Price has worked for IFPI since 2014, and started in the role of Head of Anti-Piracy Research and Analysis. In his new role, Price will be responsible for managing the Insight team, […]
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But, is this enough to convert its 175 million users to its paid subscription service ‘SoundCloud Go’? Earlier in the year SoundCloud announced the addition of a stations feature. Now, the streaming service has announced an update to this feature which allow users to discover music in what SoundCloud calls ”a lean back, seamless listening experience”. […]
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Spotify stays ahead of competition… According to a report by MBW, Spotify has hit 37 million paying subscribers, adding approximately 2 million paying users a month in the last quarter alone. If these figures are correct, it means that June was the fastest growth period for the streaming service since launching in 2008. It would also represent […]
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Stat means that Spotify currently has more than double Apple Music’s subs worldwide
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Apple Music will never catch up to Spotify if people keep cancelling their subscriptions… Last week, Cowen’s John Blackledge and Tim Arcuri shared some information in a recent report, on the rate of which Spotify and Apple Music lose subscribers on a monthly basis. According to Cowen, Apple Music have a subscriber churn rate of 6.4% […]
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Good news for artists. Music fans are streaming more music through on-demand audio streaming services than video streaming platforms… According to BuzzAngle, Americans are consuming more music through on-demand audio streaming services than through music video platforms. In the first six months of 2016, Americans played more than 114 billion audio streams on streaming platforms […]
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Could Jimmy Iovine’s team acquire Kanye and Beyonce’s favoured platform?
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One year on and Apple Music is the second most popular music streaming service… This time last year, Apple Music had just surfaced onto the music streaming market. A year on, and the service now boasts 15 million paying subscribers. To say the very least, the platform has established itself as one of the most popular streaming […]
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One year on and Apple Music is the second most popular music streaming service… This time last year, Apple Music had just surfaced onto the music streaming market. A year on, and the service now boasts 15 million paying subscribers. To say the very least, the platform has established itself as one of the most popular streaming […]
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Spotify has had enough of Apple’s anti-competitive strategies… Spotify has previously thanked Apple for increasing the rate of growth in their subscriber numbers, and for helping the service reach 100 million active users. Spotify’s Vice President Jonathan Forster previously said… ”Since Apple Music started we’ve been growing quicker and adding more users than before. It’s great that […]
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