Streaming Archives

Streaming up by 35% in Australia for the first half of 2018

21/09/2018

Streaming in Australia grew by 35% during the first half of 2018 according to ARIA, the Australian Recording Industry Association. Australia’s music sales jumped 6% in the first half of 2018 continuing to show the market’s return to growth for a fourth year running. In 2017, Australia’s music industry recorded its highest annual growth in over 20 years, with recorded music industry tracking a 10.5% increase in value to A$391 million. For the first half of 2018 total […]

YouTube dominates music listening in Malta

17/09/2018

New research by PRS for Music, the performing rights society for songwriters and composers in Malta, shows that YouTube dominates music listening in Malta with 85% of people in Malta using YouTube in the last 3 months. Over a quarter of listeners (28%) used only YouTube to access music. By contrast, just 32% of people had used Google Play, while 28% had used Spotify. Only 14% of those surveyed had not used any digital music […]

Spotify raises download limit

16/09/2018

Spotify raises its download limit for offline listening from 3,333 songs on three devices to 10,000 songs on up to five devices. With a potential to store up to 50,000 songs this would give you over 100 solid days of offline listening. It would have to be a hellava wilderness trip to be out of internet access for longer than that and run out of music! How to download songs in Spotify for a desktop […]

Primephonic relaunches its classical music streaming service

13/09/2018

Primephonic which has been replatforming has announced the large scale launch of its classical music streaming service in the US, UK and the Netherlands. Primephonic’s catalogue contains over 1 million tracks from Warner Classics, Sony Classical, Universal Music Classical, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon and EMI and another 400+ labels from around the world. The company believes that classical music lovers can finally stream and download nearly all classical music that has ever been recorded in CD-quality. […]

SoundCloud launches SoundCloud Weekly

11/09/2018

SoundCloud launches SoundCloud Weekly, a new personalized playlist which works in a similar way to Spotify’s Discover Weekly feature. The new personalized playlist which updates every Monday draws from SoundCloud’s one-of-a-kind catalogue of original tracks, DJ sets and mixes connecting more creators with new listeners than ever before. Each week, SoundCloud Weekly playlists will feature music from millions of unique creators – multiple times more than are featured in playlists on other streaming services – […]

Apple Music - UK Top 100 Chart (9th September 2018)

Apple Music rolls out Top 100 Charts

09/09/2018

Apple Music has rolled out 116 ‘Top 100’ Charts, one for every country where it is available plus a Global Top 100. Every chart will be updated on a daily basis at 12am PST (US time). The format is similar to that of playlists or albums and can be found on the Browse page with top Songs and Playlists. With instant and free access not only to the Chart listings but also the tracks themselves, […]

DEEZER app now available on Garmin wearables

07/09/2018

DEEZER’s music streaming service is now available on six new wearables from Garmin. Available on the Vivoactive 3 Music, Forerunner 645 Music and Fenix 5 Plus Series models, the DEEZER app offers the following features: Store more than 100 tracks right on your watch Sync your favourite playlists to your watch Get a daily refresh of songs with DEEZER Flow Choose from a variety of curated workout playlists Garmin users in the US will also […]