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YouTube Music now offers YouTube Charts

20/12/2018

YouTube Music now offers YouTube Charts as playlists with local and global versions in all YouTube’s 29 launched markets. In addition to the recently announced YouTube Charts, users can now access the top most-played songs this week on YouTube, the most-viewed music videos, or see what’s trending. You can now easily access YouTube Charts as playlists that will appear on users’ home screens or by search. Every country will get five charts playlists: three specific to […]

Spotify’s Top Songs, Artists, Playlists and Podcasts of 2018

18/12/2018

Spotify’s Top Songs, Artists, Playlists and Podcasts of 2018 are published in a blog posting by the streamer and once again Hip-hop dominated its charts. Music lovers continued with some existing favourites, such as 2015 and 2016’s most-streamed artist, Drake, who took home the crown once again this year. With 8.2 billion streams in 2018 alone, the Canadian rapper is now Spotify’s most-streamed artist of all time. His album “Scorpion” and song “God’s Plan” took […]

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JioMusic and Saavn integrate to create South Asia’s largest music platform

17/12/2018

JioMusic and Saavn integrate to create South Asia’s largest music platform with a catalogue of more than 45 million songs and award-winning original content. The merged JioSaavn service integrates JioMusic, India’s most popular music app, and Saavn, India’s leading global over-the-top platform. This follows the recent purchase of Saavn by Reliance Industries Limited owners of JioMusic in March of this year. The new integrated JioSaavn app will be available across all App Stores including the […]

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Rhapsody and Sony Music bring HiRes streaming to Japan

15/12/2018

Rhapsody and Sony Music bring HiRes streaming to Japan using Rhapsody’s ‘Powered by Napster’ platform. The new on demand music service christened ‘mora qualitas’ brings lossless FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) files at 24bit/44.1-96khz (HiRes) and 16bit/44.1khz (CD quality) music streaming to Japan for the first time. Rhapsody International is providing its complete ‘Powered By Napster’ platform including a unique set of systems, tools and APIs to allow Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ) to quickly […]

DEEZER adds Latin American Podcasts

14/12/2018

DEEZER adds Latin American podcasts from Spreaker, Voxnest’s platform for podcast creation, distribution and monetization. The partnership between DEEZER and Voxnest will significantly increase the streaming platform’s catalogue of international podcast content. Users in Colombia and Brazil will now be able to enjoy podcasts on a wide range of popular and niche topics, which will support Deezer’s ongoing growth in Latin America. Spreaker has a particularly large library of Spanish-language content from creators in Spain, […]

SoundCloud releases its 2018 Playback

13/12/2018

SoundCloud releases its 2018 Playback playlist containing the Top Tracks listened to by the SoundCloud community in a blog article this week. For the second year in a row, Two Friends released SoundCloud’s favourite DJ set – and ‘synthwave’ and ‘phonk’ continue to be the top tagged genres. SoundCloud has also produced a 2019 Artists to Watch playlist containing 19 artists who they believe will be ‘storming the scene next year and beyond’. An infographic […]

Spotify users rise to 5.2 million in Netherlands

12/12/2018

Spotify users rise to 5.2 million in Netherlands according to a new report from research firm GfK. In October 2018, Spotify had added an extra 1 million users in the last year achieving a monthly reach of 36.2% (5,243,000 people aged 13 and older) – an increase of 22% year on year. The use of Spotify amongst young people (13-24 years old) was the highest reaching 64% of the population up from 46% a year […]