Category archives: Apple

2018 On-Demand Music Streams +42%, Paid Streams +50% In Q4 [BuzzAngle Music]

[UPDATED] On-demand audio streams set a record high of 534.6 billion in the US in 2018, up 42% over the previous year, according to the BuzzAngle Music Industry Year End Report. But the best news for artists and labels came thanks to 50% growth in streams by paid subscribers. Those…

YouTube’s Streaming Domination Clips the Market’s Wings [Mark Mulligan]

For all the media attention given to Spotify and Apple Music, YouTube is still the world’s most popular music streaming service. But its unique licensing position and massive free offering often has a negative effect on the entire music streaming market. _________________________________ By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music…

Apple Plunges $57 Billion in Premarket Trading, Dragging Global Stocks After Shock Sales Warning

Global stocks slid after a shock revenue-guidance downgrade from Apple and troubling comments about the economic impact of the U.S.-China trade war from CEO Tim Cook.

Ebro Darden named Apple Music’s Global Head of Editorial for Hip-Hop and R&B

DJ/presenter will ‘find ways to connect with urban music communities and beyond’
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Music Biz Weekly Podcast Looks Back At 2018 And What’s Next In 2019

For the last Music Biz Weekly Podcast of 2018, co-hosts Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert look back at 2018, comment on industry shifts that excited and disappointed them and look ahead to 2019.

Zoe Keating Shares Spotify, Streaming Earnings 2018

Cellist and composer Zoe Keating has won legions of fans with recordings and performances that use live sampling to create a rhythmically and sonically dense, almost otherworldly sound. To her fellow independent artists, she’s also an inspiration and a thought leader. _______________________________ Snowmelt (EP) by Zoe Keating The centerpiece of…

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Moving On Up: Apple Gets Into The Business Of Elevator Music

Although the tinkly, saccharine iterations of current major hits, dubbed ‘Muzak’ is much maligned by those forced to endure it, such watered down covers are a fairly profitable vein of music business, enough so that apple has decided it wants its piece of the pie. ____________________________ Guest post by Bobby…

Apple Music Shuts Artist-To-Fan Social Platform Connect, Redesigns Artists Pages, Radio

Apple Music is shutting down its Connect artist to fan social platform. Apple’s previous attempt at building a music focused social network, iTunes Ping, launched and shutters in months. Apple began notifying artists that they could no longer post on Connect amd previously posted content was being removed from the…