The controversial attempts of singer Justin Bieber and/or his team to game the charts and make “Yummy” a No. 1 song seem to be coming up a little short. For the moment, Bieber’s fans have been unable to bring his new song to the top o…
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Deezer Inks a Bundled Carrier Deal with Mondia for Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE
Deezer announced that it has signed an agreement with a mobile technology company called Mondia that will allow for direct carrier billing services in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE. The announcement comes in the wake of news that Deezer’s compe…
LiveXLive Says It Has 820,000 Paying Subscribers
LiveXLive announced that it has reached 820,000 paid subscribers, which is up 140,000 in the past nine months. The achievement came within the context of the company releasing certain operational metrics for the first nine months of their fiscal year, …
Is Anghami for Sale? $400 Million Price Tag Rumored
According to a report from Bloomberg, Anghami is considering selling the company to a pay television network in Dubai called Orbit Showtime Network (OSN). Inside sources have told Bloomberg that the Middle East music streaming service — whose nam…
Bernstein Initiates Coverage of Spotify, Starts at ‘Underperform’
Bernstein Bank has begun covering Spotify as a stock, and they are very bearish at the moment, believing that the stock is significantly underperforming. Todd Juenger, who is an analyst at Bernstein, has set a target price of $127. This means that he b…
Finally: SiriusXM Is Testing Bundled Pandora Subscriptions
A little more than a year after it acquired Pandora, SiriusXM is finally considering bundling it with its satellite radio service. At the moment, there are scant details about how the company might package the two services. All the company is saying is…
Justin Bieber Asks Fans To Generate Fake Spotify, iTunes Plays So He Can Get a #1 Song
In the wake of a controversy over fake music streams of a French Montana song, the Instagram account of Justin Bieber instructed fans on how to game Spotify and iTunes in order to help Bieber’s new single rise to the top of the charts. In a now-d…
German Music Industry Breaks the 100 Billion Stream Barrier
In the wake of a report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) that there were more than 100 billion music streams in the United Kingdom, GfK Entertainment and the German Music Industry Association (BVMI) announced that the same thing had happene…
A Flute-Playing Lizzo Leads Dolby’s Latest Hi-Res Streaming Music Campaign
Want Lizzo playing the flute in Dolby Atmos audio? Now there’s a hi-res connected music speaker for that. If you like Lizzo, then you’re gonna love Lizzo playing the flute in Dolby Atmos. Or at least that’s the thinking behind a majo…
Metallica, Once a Spotify Holdout, Celebrates 1 Billion Spotify Streams
Metallica has announced that there were more than a billion streams of their songs on Spotify, after once famously refusing to license their music on the platform. In a Twitter post, the band wrote: “ONE. BILLION. STREAMS. 1,026 decades of Metall…