Apple Music In The News

One World: Together At Home has already raised $128m for COVID-19 fight – now Universal’s releasing the album

Global Citizen event launched as audio album on streaming services in collaboration with UMG

Sonos launches ad-supported radio streaming service, including artist ‘Stations’ from Thom Yorke and David Byrne

The new service brings together more than 60,000 stations from multiple streaming partners

Apple Music expands into 52 (52!) new markets, upping presence in Africa and beyond

Apple Music now in more than double the markets in which Spotify operates

Inside the Defected Records ‘hype machine’

Defected Chief Business Officer James Kirkham on "the science" of how the company leverages social media, events, artists and fans to maximum effect

Apple Music boss Oliver Schusser to run Beats brand as Luke Wood steps down

Luke Wood to depart at the end of April

Songtradr offers artists free music distribution until September 30: ‘We’ve been doing what we can, but we need to do more.’

Songtradr previously sacrificed commission fees for sync to help artists hit by COVID-19

Fanbytes launches ByteLabs to help ‘TikTok play a longer-term role’ for labels and artists

Bytelabs claims to have seen an increase in artist TikTok follower counts by 250% across four weeks

Positive signs: Music streaming spend is rising in the US, even amid Coronavirus lockdown

News is in contrast to report out of Spain earlier this month