This is what billions of music streams looks like. Ahead of the New Year, The Weeknd purchased this full-floor penthouse pad in the Westwood stretch of Los Angeles. News of the $21 million purchase surfaced just ahead of New Year’s Eve, with The …
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Hit With a YouTube Copyright Claim? Now You Can Surgically Remove It
YouTube Studio has been updated with trim tools to assist with the YouTube copyright claim process. The Assisted Trim tool lets creators remove the offending portion of the video, releasing the claim. The assisted trim tool does have a few limitations,…
Despite $7 Million in Funding, 8tracks Is Shutting Down
The founder of 8Tracks David Porter has announced in a blog post that the company will cease operations at the end of the year. The company launched back in 2008 as a social media platform that offered user-curated playlists of at least eight songs. Pl…
Indian Streaming Service Gaana Reaches 125 Million Monthly Active Users
While facing increased competition from YouTube, Gaana — which is owned in part by Tencent and is India’s leading music streaming service — announced that it had reached 125 million monthly active users. The company further says that …
Indian Streaming Service Gaana Reaches 125 Million Monthly Active Users
While facing increased competition from YouTube, Gaana — which is owned in part by Tencent and is India’s leading music streaming service — announced that it had reached 125 million monthly active users. The company further says that …
Meet the Single Mom Cellist Who Makes a Living Off Her Music — Our Podcast Interview
In 2015, cellist Zoë Keating suffered tragedy when her husband and business partner of 17 years died. Despite the loss, there wasn’t even the thought in Keating’s mind of ending her indie music career. In this edition of the Digital…
YouTube Music Is Beating Spotify in India, Bloomberg Says
Bloomberg is reporting that YouTube in India has gotten over 800,000 paid subscribers for its music service less than a year since launching. According to the report, YouTube’s growth is faster than Spotify’s in this important developing ma…
Spotify Is Now Advertising ‘High Quality Sound’ — Just Don’t Tell the Audiophiles
Spotify is now advertising its 320 kbps bitrate as ‘high-quality sound’ to its Premium subscribers. Meanwhile, Amazon Music HD tracks have an average bitrate of 850 kbps. Back in 2017, Spotify tested offering lossless audio for an additiona…
Billboard Changes Its Mind: YouTube Will Now Factor into the Billboard 200
Breaking a policy that has been in effect since 2017, Billboard will now incorporate audio and video data coming from YouTube in its computation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. While Billboard has not included YouTube data in its albums chart, it ha…
The Top 40 Most Popular Songs of All Time, According to YouTube
The 40 most popular songs on YouTube have been revealed. Unsurprisingly, songs released in the 2010s took the top spots for ‘most popular songs’ on the list. Interestingly enough, only one song from the ’80s and ’90s crossed the…