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Qobuz hosts The Metallica Report podcast in HiRes

01/11/2024

Qobuz hosts The Metallica Report podcast in HiRes, Pantheon Media’s audio podcast series. Every Wednesday, new episodes can be found in Qobuz’ dedicated “Metallica Report” playlist in full 24-bit resolution not available anywhere else. Metallica fans can listen in to get insider access to the group’s latest news, tour updates, and behind-the-scenes stories straight from the band’s Northern California headquarters. The podcast partnership with Pantheon represents the streaming service’s “boutique in a superstore world” approach […]

BBC Sounds continues to grow in Q3 2024

29/10/2024

BBC Sounds continues to grow in Q3 2024 with 622 million plays of all content across radio, podcasts and music mixes. There were over 622 million plays of all content across radio, podcasts and music mixes in this quarter (July – Sept 2024). This is up 14 million plays on the previous quarter and an increase of more than 3% from the same period last year, as digital listening continues to grow. The busiest week of […]

Create custom cover art for Spotify playlists

27/10/2024

Create custom cover art for Spotify playlists with a beta rollout on the mobile app in English in 65 countries. Currently listeners have created over 8 Bn playlists covering every kind of musical mood and milestone in their life. The new feature offers both Free and Premium users the ability to create their own cover art with unique images, colours and text effects, graphic elements, and more, allowing them to make their music playlists more […]

BBC commissions new shows for BBC Sounds

25/10/2024

BBC commissions new shows for BBC Sounds music streams, Radio 1 Anthems and Radio 3 Unwind. Following highly competitive commissioning rounds, a raft of production teams across the audio sector and different parts of the UK have secured shows on the new music streams for BBC Sounds, launching in early November. Lorna Clarke, Director of Music, BBC says, “Our new music extensions provide invaluable creative opportunities for the audio sector to win more commissions, and […]

Qobuz expands its streaming service into Japan

24/10/2024

Qobuz expands its streaming service into Japan its twenty-sixth country and since its launch in the US in 2019, the company has opened in 15 new countries in the last four years. The company’s move into Japan follows the acquisition of e-onkyo music in 2021. While streaming dominates the global music market with over 67% of revenue, Japan presents a unique landscape where the physical market still accounts for over 50% of sales. Paid streaming, […]

Spotify expands audiobooks into Western Europe

19/10/2024

Spotify expands audiobooks into Western Europe with Premium subscribers in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg getting instant access to over 200,000 titles. In April this year Spotify added Canada, Ireland and New Zealand to its launch of Audiobooks in the US, Canada and the UK at the end of 2022. The catalogue includes local authors such as Gaël Faye, Maylis de Kerangal, Joël Dicker, Suzanne Vermeer, and Saskia. Eligible Spotify Premium subscribers in those […]

Beatport’s streaming service for DJs now offers lossless FLAC

15/10/2024

Beatport’s streaming service for DJs now offers lossless FLAC for Professional plan subscribers with access to over 12 million electronic music tracks. Support is available for a number of DJ hardware and software platforms such as djay Pro, VirtualDJ, DJ.Studio, Edjing Mix, Tribe XR and Serato DJ Pro for Macs with CDJ-3000, rekordbox, and Traktor ‘coming soon’. Beatport Streaming Professional subscribers can easily switch between streaming audio quality in their chosen DJ platform, or if […]