Year: 2021

Analysis and updates from the world of high‑resolution and digital audio.

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Entertainment was UK’s fastest growing leisure sector in 2020

07/03/2021
Entertainment was UK’s fastest growing leisure sector in 2020 with retail spending on music, video and games up 18.8% as leisure plunges 30%. The combined music, video and games market grew faster than any other leisure sector in 2020, according to figures revealed by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) in the ERA Yearbook. Retail spending increased by 18.3% to a record £9.26 Bn while the overall leisure sector – everything from hobbies, sport and eating […]
Female artists represent less than 10% in some genres
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Female artists represent less than 10% in some genres

07/03/2021
Female artists represent less than 10% in some genres according to Deezer streaming data revealed for International Women’s Day (8th March 2021). Female artists represent a small proportion of the top 100 charts for electronic, hiphop and rock music. Just 4% of the top 100 streamed electronic artists are women with hiphop (7% of the top 100) and rock (also 7%) falling short when it comes to gender diversity. The streamer said that it ‘wants […]
BTS are 2020 IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year
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BTS are 2020 IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year

07/03/2021
BTS are 2020 IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year according to IFPI’s recently published Top 10 Global Recording Artists 2020 chart. The Global Recording Artist of the Year Award is calculated according to an artist’s or group’s worldwide performance across digital and physical music formats during the year, from streams to vinyl, and covers their entire body of work. The award was announced at the culmination of the IFPI Global Artist Chart, which counted […]
Listening on mobile devices set to surpass traditional radio in US
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Listening on mobile devices set to surpass traditional radio in US

06/03/2021
Listening on mobile devices set to surpass traditional radio in US according to recent research from Edison Research. The findings are from their Share of Ear reports based on a nationally representative study of Americans aged 13 and older and their listening habits over a 24 hour period. Listening on a mobile device now accounts for 30% of all time spent listening to audio – an increase of 67% since 2014.Listening on a mobile device has been growing […]
SoundCloud introduces fan powered royalties
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SoundCloud introduces fan powered royalties

06/03/2021
SoundCloud introduces fan powered royalties, a new pay model for independent artists making a more equitable and transparent way for emerging and independent artists to earn money on SoundCloud. Fan-powered royalties are a new model of payouts that is driven directly by an artist’s fan base. With this move, each listener’s subscription or advertising revenue is distributed among the artists that they listen to, rather than their plays being pooled – benefiting rising independent artists […]
BPI wins court victory in Cyberlocker and Stream Piracy cases
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BPI wins court victory in Cyberlocker and Stream Piracy cases

06/03/2021
BPI wins court victory in cyberlocker and stream piracy cases in litigation on behalf of the UK record industry. The cases were dealt with following an online hearing at London’s High Court, which ruled that the operators and users of the websites use the services of internet companies (ISPs) to infringe copyright and that therefore the ISPs should block access to them. The infringing uses included providing or linking to a downloadable stream ripping app.  Stream […]
Get 3 months of Deezer for free
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Get 3 months of Deezer for free

03/03/2021
Get 3 months of Deezer for free with either their Premium, HiFi or Family plans saving you €45 on a Family or HiFi account or €30 on a Premium account (in Europe, other country savings may differ). There are no restrictions on the accounts and gives unlimited access to music and podcasts when you sign up with a valid payment option. The subscriptions on offer are: Deezer Premium – ad-free access to over 73 million songs, podcasts […]