Spotify is rolling out a new app for smartwatches on Wear OS by Google leaving you free to run, dance, shop, socialize and control your music at the same time. The streamer has partnered with Fossil Group to bring the Spotify experience in a standalone app for Wear OS by Google smartwatches to even more users. Starting in November, Spotify will be auto-installed on all Fossil Gen 4 Smartwatches and Michael Kors Access Runway Smartwatches. […]
The Latin music market continued its remarkable transformation in the first half of 2018 with revenues growing 15% to $135 million driven by paid streaming formats, according to a recent report from the RIAA, the US recording industry association. Streaming represented a remarkable 91% of the entire market. Latin music has become a worldwide phenomenon, driven by a diverse streaming market and Latin labels making smart investments to support their artists’ global ambitions. Similar to […]
SiriusXM acquires Pandora in an all-stock transaction valuing Pandora at $3.5 Bn to create the world’s largest audio entertainment company. The combined company will merge the largest US audio streaming platform with SiriusXM’s strong in-car presence and have an expected turnover of more than $7 Bn in 2018. The combined company has a market value of about $34 Bn, topping Spotify’s $31.2 Bn and follows an initial purchase by SiriusXM of a 15% stake in […]
SoundCloud has upgraded its audio quality for its SoundCloud Go+ subscribers with 256kbps AAC streams available when the original file has been uploaded in a lossless format. Only tracks uploaded in lossless formats such as WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC or a high bitrate will be available for streaming in this higher quality. SoundCloud HQ (High Quality) audio streaming is only available to Go+ subscribers and is in addition to ad-free listening, offline sync and full […]
Apple announced that it has completed its acquisition of Shazam, the song recognition app with a user base of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music said, “Apple and Shazam have a long history together. Shazam was one of the first apps available when we launched the App Store and has become a favorite app for music fans everywhere, With a shared love of music and innovation, we […]
President Trump signed the Music Modernization Act into law on 11th October 2018. The Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (to give its full title) ‘represents the realization of years of effort by a wide array of policymakers and stakeholders to update the music licensing landscape to better facilitate legal licensing of music by digital services,’ according to the U.S. Copyright Office. The legislation aims to update music licensing and copyright law into the […]
Genius lyrics database is now available on Apple Music as the company makes Apple Music its official music player and will share its lyrics on the service. Genius is the world’s biggest encyclopaedia of music, built by artists, scholars, and super-fans working together to go deep inside their favourite songs. Now the encyclopaedia has a soundtrack with Apple Music subscribers who visit Genius able to play any song in full right from the song page, […]
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