Streaming Archives

BMW Music service ‘Powered by Napster’

28/02/2020

BMW Music service ‘Powered by Napster’ will be providing European BMW car owners a premium music audio experience which is integrated into their vehicle with no setup, login or extra devices required. BMW Music will bring its on-demand music and audio service to BMW owners in Germany, France, UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Spain. Drivers and passengers now have easy one-click access to more than 60 million songs and 20,000 audiobooks through the […]

Spotify refreshes its mobile app

28/02/2020

Spotify refreshes its mobile app with 3 new icons to aid usability according to a new blog posting from the streamer. Available initially to iOS users with the Android version ‘promised soon’ both Free and Premium subscribers will benefit from a more streamlined, easy-to-use interface with fresh designs to actionable icons that will make playing your favourite song or playlist as simple as the tap of a button. Simpler and more universal Shuffle Play button […]

SOURCE: BVMI - Composition of German market 2019

Germany increased streaming by 27% in 2019

27/02/2020

Germany increased streaming by 27% in 2019 with an overall increase in revenue for the year of 8.2% according to figures released by the BVMI, the German record industry association. Total revenue for the year came to €1.623 Bn. After two years of minimal decline in 2017 and 2018, the fourth largest music market in the world followed the positive global trend of the past few years in 2019. Several factors contributed to this growth […]

Spotify delivers 41 Bn K-Pop streams

26/02/2020

Spotify delivers 41 Bn K-Pop streams since January 2014 increasing the genre’s share of listening by more than 1800% according to a recent blog post by the streamer. K-Pop, which originated in South Korea, has taken on a life of its own thanks to East-meets-West collaborations from BTS and US singer-songwriter Halsey, whose ‘Boy With Luv’ track has over 380 million streams. The popularity of the genre continues to grow as more and more fans […]

Qobuz drops the price of its Premier service

26/02/2020

Qobuz drops the price of its Premier service offering a HiRes and CD Quality streaming service in the UK for £14.99 a month or £149.99 with a yearly plan. In addition, the streamer will be dropping its MP3 streaming service ‘to focus on delivering best-in-class studio quality audio’. The streaming service will offer CD-quality (lossless) or HiRes (from 24-bit/44.1 kHz up to 192 kHz studio quality) on its new Studio Premier plan, for its first […]

Country Music streaming grew by 36% in US in 2019

25/02/2020

Country Music streaming grew by 36% in US in 2019 with radio listeners having more contemporary tastes than on-demand streamers according to a recent report from P1 Media Group. Yet despite the general trend to playing more contemporary music, Country Radio missed the immense popularity of Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ which spent 19 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The findings were based on MRC Data/Nielsen Music Top 500 most played […]

Spotify syncs lyrics to the music

24/02/2020

Spotify syncs lyrics to the music using the Musixmatch lyrics platform so you can read or sing along as the track plays. This feature is being gradually rolled out on the platform and the feature won’t work for all tracks on Spotify, but supported songs will be indexed with a LYRICS tag much like the EXPLICIT tag in playlists. You can read the lyrics from the Now Playing section, just below the cover art and […]