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Spotify, Chance The Rapper, Kesha Join Webby Winners 2019
Chance The Rapper, Childish Gambino, Kesha, Solange and Spotify were among the 2019 Webby Award Winners alongside Steph Curry, Ellen DeGeneres, The Walking Dead, Trevor Noah and more. Three million votes were cast in more than 240 countries to choose the Winners of the Webby People’s Voice Awards. This year’s…
Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ Is Available On Spotify, Apple Music Exactly Three Years After It Was Released
Three years to the day after it was released, Beyonce’ has made her 2016 Grammy-winning album Lemonade available on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services. The album was previously only available for purchase and as an exclusive stream on Tidal. The release comes days after her release of a…
SiriusXM Launches Low Cost Streaming Only Plan
SiriusXM has added an "Essential" subscription streaming only plan, making its multi-channel service available on mobile, tablet, desktop and other connected devices. Essential subscribers get 300 channels from SiriusXM’s lineup of music, comedy, news, sports and entertainment. The Essential plan is priced at $1 for the first three months, then…
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
In this flip back through the past week’s music industry news, we revisit the play gap in men’s vs. women’s performance on the charts, Spotify’s impressive showing over other streamers when it comes to installs, how Billie Eilish and her brother are redefining pop music from a tiny bedroom studio,…
Amazon Music’s New Freemium Tier May Bite Into Spotify’s Long-Term Advertising Strategy
Amazon’s freemium music service soft launch may force Spotify to reevaluate its own strategy to keep advertisers. In an interview published earlier this year, David Limp, Senior Vice President of Devices and Services over at Amazon, shared a surprising…
Amazon, YouTube Just Launched Free Music Services But Neither Is A ‘Spotify Killer’
Amazon and YouTube each just launched free music streamers. Like Spotify’s free tier, both offer free ad-supported music. But despite the media hype, their goals are very different than Spotify. Spotify’s free tier offers on demand access to 40 million tracks across almost every platform imaginable. Whereas YouTube and Amazon…
Spotify Passes 500 Million Installs, Far More Than Other Streamers
The Spotify app has passed 500 million installs on Android. In its last quarterly report, Spotify reported 207 million monthly active users, so the 500 million stat includes people who are no longer using the app and reflect how Google calculates downloads and installs. Pandora, Amazon Music, Deezer, YouTube Music,…
Amazon Launches Free Ad Supported Music Service
Amazon Music customers in the U.S. who do not have a Prime membership or subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited can now listen to a free ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations for free with Amazon Music on compatible Alexa-enabled devices. It is expected that Amazon’s free music service will…
YouTube Music Launches Free Ad-Supported Streaming On All Google Home Speakers
YouTube Music has launched a free ad-supported streaming service, just days after rumors surfaced that Amazon is about to launch similar free music service. YouTube’s free tier is currently available on Google Home speakers and other Google Assistant-powered speakers. YouTube Music’s free service and Amazon’s pending launch mark the first…