Earlier this year, Spotify unveiled an interesting streamlined app for music listeners in Australia. Dubbed Stations, the app allows users to quickly stream curated stations. The app description on Google Play explains how users wouldn’t have to labori…
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iTunes Is Dead: Apple Shifts Away from iTunes and Toward Its Music App
According to music industry insiders speaking with Digital Music News, Apple had formally prepared to shut down iTunes music downloads on March 31st, 2019. Pointing to an eventual shutdown of the revolutionary – albeit bloated – software, Jimmy Iovine,…
Netflix Raises Its Prices Again — This Time In the UK
Netflix just announced that UK users’ monthly subscriptions fees will be increasing. Amazingly, Spotify hasn’t raised its prices in more than a decade, citing extreme price sensitivity and competition from similar services. Netflix, however, has been …
Spotify May Soon Launch Another New Feature — Social Listening
Taking its popular Connect to the next level, Spotify has reportedly prepared to unveil a brand-new social feature. Well-known data miner Jane Manchun Wong, who previously uncovered multiple now-revealed Facebook and Instagram features, made a new disc…
Musicwatch Says Music Piracy and Stream-Ripping Are on the Rise, Contradicting Muso’s Findings
According to a new study, music piracy rose 13% in the United States last year. That’s according to MusicWatch, a marketing research company. In a blog post slamming stream-ripping as a “scourge,” MusicWatch tracked 17 million users downloading their m…
Apple’s New Music and TV Apps Leaked in New Screenshots
Several weeks ago, ahead of macOS version 10.15’s official debut, data miners revealed a rather interesting surprise. Instead of actually breaking up iTunes into standalone Music, Podcast, and Video apps – as previously reported – the famous software w…
TIDAL Is Hosting Release Events for Prince’s ‘Originals’ Album Release
Jay-Z will host a TIDAL listening party for the upcoming Originals posthumous Prince album. The album features 14 previously unreleased tracks from the late artist. Jay-Z worked with Troy Carter on behalf of the Prince Estate to curate the 15-track a…
The Musician’s Guide to Pandora Promotion
While Spotify deserves kudos for its free Artist toolkit, no music service has provided more opportunities for artists to connect with fans than Pandora. Pandora AMP (Artist Marketing Platform) is an offering that its competitors can learn from. _____________________________ By Ariel Hyatt of CyberPR Pandora has been working hard to…
The Most Streamed Artist of All Time — Who Really Dominates the Streaming Charts?
Tracking down the most streamed artist of all time is like finding a needle in a haystack. Between the dozens of different streaming services and lack of transparent reporting, it’s hard to nail these numbers down. So let’s set some guidelines here. We…
Spotify Introduces a Sleep Timer for Android Users
Android users have been asking Spotify for this feature for ages. Now, Spotify for Android finally has a basic sleep timer for turning off the music when dozing off. Spotify finally got around to adding the sleep timer feature after years of Android us…