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What Violent Political Unrest? Tencent Music Schedules Its Annual Shareholder Meeting in Hong Kong
Tencent Music Entertainment Group has announced that it will hold its annual general meeting next month in Hong Kong, in spite of all the unrest there due to political protests. The annual meeting will take place December 19 at the Ritz-Carlton in Kowl…
Songwriters, Artists Intensify Their Fight Against Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon Over Streaming Royalty Rates
The Music Artists Coalition (MAC) and the Songwriters of North America (SONA) have filed an amicus brief with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a recent Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) ruling that raised the rates of music streaming royalties…
Deezer HiFi Arrives on iOS, Android and Web Browsers
Deezer has announced that its HiFi service is now available on mobile and web platforms. In 2014, Deezer first offered its HiFi service, which lets users listen to lossless FLAC-based audio files, exclusively on connected speakers. Then, three years la…
Amazon Music Officially Unveils Its Ad-Supported Free Service
Amazon Music has announced the launch of a free, ad-supported version of its music streaming service that it hopes will compete with Spotify’s free version, which has close to 140 million users. An ad-supported version of the service has reported…
Jamendo Is Now Part of the Vodafone Pass Program In Germany
Jamendo has teamed up with Vodafone Germany to offer Vodafone customers free data usage on its music platform and increase the visibility of its artists. The following article comes from Jamendo, a proud partner of DMN. With the “Vodafone Pass” service…
Spotify Is Actively Testing Realtime Lyrics in Certain Markets
Spotify is testing a new feature in its mobile app that provides real-time lyrics in sync with the music it is playing. The feature, which is powered by Musixmatch, scrolls a song’s lyrics in time with the music. The company is testing it in sele…
Apple Music Slots Jessie Reyez as Their Latest ‘Up Next’ Artist
Apple Music has announced that Canadian singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez has been selected as the latest artist to be featured in its monthly Up Next program, which is an initiative aimed at identifying, showcasing and elevating rising talent. Reyez is t…
The Spotify Blacklist Continues — Artist Faces Retaliation After a Music Magazine Exclusive
New allegations of a ‘Spotify blacklist’ are surfacing, with artists still excluded from editorial playlists if their music debuted elsewhere. The blacklist now seems to go beyond competing streaming services, including blogs, radio, or …
Top Streaming Exec: The MLC Is Choking On a ‘Once-In-a-Lifetime Opportunity’
Major streaming services appear to be growing increasingly frustrated with the as-yet-unformed Mechanical Licensing Collective, or MLC. Just this morning, a top executive at one of the largest streaming platforms in the world — who wished to remain ano…