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Top Music from Spotify in the first week in India

Spotify’s Top Music in India

19/03/2019

Spotify’s Top Music in India for its first week of operation has been shared in a blog posting and shows a mix of local Indian music and tracks from around the globe. In the first week since its launch more than one million users have registered for the app. Users in India are listening to musicians and tracks from around the globe, with 68% of artists in the top 50 coming from somewhere other than […]

Play Apple Music with Alexa

18/03/2019

Play Apple Music with Alexa on Amazon Echo and Fire TV in the US only. Apple Music subscribers can now ask Alexa to play songs, artists, playlists, and more from Apple Music or playlists from your Library. Here’s what you need An Apple Music subscription, an Amazon Echo or Fire TV device that you have already set up with the Amazon Alexa app on your iOS or Android device making sure that you have the latest […]

The Greatest Showman is top album of 2018

17/03/2019

The Greatest Showman soundtrack is top album of 2018 with 3.5 million sales globally according to IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide. Released alongside the hugely popular film, The Greatest Showman was a global success, topping charts in countries including Australia, Japan, UK and US. The album also reached number one on iTunes in over 60 countries. This is Me, the album’s lead single, charted in the top five in the […]

Boomplay and Warner Music Group Licensing deal

Boomplay does licensing deal with Warner Music

17/03/2019

Boomplay does licensing deal with Warner Music adding Warner Music’s extensive catalogue of more than one million songs to its users in ten countries – Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Boomplay currently has 5 million songs in its catalogue with 42 million users. Claiming to be Africa’s largest music and streaming and download service this deal follows on from Boomplay’s recent licensing arrangement with Universal Music Group in […]

Uforia app now ‘Powered by Napster’

16/03/2019

Uforia app now ‘Powered by Napster’ as part of Univision and Napster’s partnership to enhance Univision’s digital platforms. Uforia which calls itself the ‘Home of Latin Music’ has had its app redesigned and its underlying technology upgraded and ‘Powered by Napster’ to create ‘the ultimate streaming destination for Hispanic America’. The app is part of the recently expanded Uforia brand, the biggest Latin music media platform in the US, including the nation’s No. 1 Hispanic […]

Canadian music achieves worldwide success in 2018

16/03/2019

Canadian music achieves worldwide success in 2018 with royalties increasing 15% over the previous year according to SOCAN, the Canadian rights management organisation. The company announced preliminary year-end results showing that it brought in and paid out record royalties to more members than ever, with combined domestic and international collections rising above 2017 figures by at least 11%. SOCAN members once again enjoyed sizable growth in their ‘export music’ – music played internationally. Total 2018 […]

Havana by Camila Cabello is best-selling single of 2018

15/03/2019

Havana by Camila Cabello (featuring Young Thug) is named best-selling digital single of 2018 by IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide. Released in 2017, Havana is the lead track from Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello’s eponymous debut solo album. Drawing on influences from Cabello’s Cuban heritage, the track, and the subsequent remix version with Spanish lyrics from Daddy Yankee, reached number one in 95 countries, rocketing Cabello to global solo success. In […]