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Apple Music Launches ‘Rap Life’ Playlist, Beats 1 Show
Apple Music has launched Rap Life, a new global playlist and Beats One radio show spotlighting the best new hip-hop. The move comes in direct response to Spotify top-rated Rap Cavier playlist which has 11.7 million followers. The Apple Music playlist – formerly known as The A-List: Hip-Hop – is…
Spotify’s Director of Economics, Will Page, is leaving the company
Respected exec has been offered a book deal with Simon and Schuster
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TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
This week on Hypebot, some of our most popular covered the preservation and return of Aerosmith’s first touring van by ‘American Pickers’ Badash’s edging out of BTS curtesy of Google AdWords, how Spotify runs the numbers on an artist’s monthly active users, much more! Aerosmith’s First Touring Van Preserved And…
Spotify and Apple go big on independent artist Aaron Smith… and get major record labels talking
Scottish songwriter lands enviable support from streamers
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Five Months After Launching in India, Spotify Barely Has Over 2 Million Local Users
Shifting the global music streaming race, Spotify recently rolled out its ‘Lite’ app in over 36 countries. The move comes after a year of testing the 15 MB app in small countries, including Brazil. So, what makes the ‘Lite’ app so unique? Spotify allo…
How Spotify Calculates An Artist’s Monthly Active Users
Spotify monthly active user counts are one of the most important metrics used by the music industry – radio, media, A&R and more – to judge how hot an artist is and the size of their fan base. But how does Spotify calculate monthly active users? Is it unique listeners…
Spotify Lite Had 1 Million Users In First Week, India Users Now Top 2 Million
UPDATED: Spotify clearly filled a need with the launch of its Spotify Lite app, which takes up one-third of the space on the users mobile, while still maintaining most of Spotify’s popular features. Spotify Lite grabbed more than 1 million global users in its first week. The app now has…
Ed Sheeran Breaks Another Spotify Record: 69M Unique Monthly Listeners
Ed Sheeran has notched yet another streaming record, surpassing a staggering 69 million monthly Spotify listeners, and is on course to hit 70 million. Sheeran has seen a spike in Spotify ‘Sheerios’ – as his fans are known – with the July 12th release of his album ‘No. 6 Collaborations…
THU. BRIEF: Sony Restructures • Saban Funds $500M Music Launch • Spotify Disney Hub • UMG Fire Update • More
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