News Apple Music For Artists launches, rivalling Spotify’s analytics tools Unsurprisingly, Apple is putting Shazam data front and center within its app
Analysis News The major labels are close to generating $1m from streaming every hour – but global growth is actually slowing down MBW analysis shows that global major label streaming revenue growth slowed by 19.1% YoY in the first six months of this year
News Streaming is having a huge year in France – led by Apple Music’s new ‘signing’, rap duo PNL Apple inked an ongoing exclusive partnership with duo in June
News Amazon Music is the fastest growing streaming service – report The FT reports that Amazon had over 32 million subscribers at the end of April
Analysis Audio streaming growth fell by 5% in the United States in the first half of 2019 Lil Nas X was the biggest track in H1 2019 – but he couldnt prevent a slight slowdown in the numbers
News The music industry is tackling streaming fraud with a pointless ‘Code’. It won’t work… but these ideas might. Penalties for artists, penalties for staff, more funding – why wasn't any of this in the industry's own policies?
News The music industry just failed to fix streaming fraud with a toothless ‘Code of Conduct’ The industry has come together to pledge... nothing new, really
News SiriusXM launches $8 per month streaming only package Essential service is priced at $1 for the first three months
News Songwriters of North America hit back at Spotify CRB appeal Songwriter advocacy group pledges loud public campaign
Analysis News How to have a streaming hit in the USA: hire 9.1 songwriters (and a rap artist) BuzzAngle data reveals all you need to know about 2018's top-selling singles and albums
News SoundCloud launches first DJ software integration with Serato SoundCloud users will be able to stream and mix tracks from the service's catalog with Serato
News Deezer partners with Triton Digital ‘to deliver more value’ for advertisers Deezer has launched mobile programmatic audio advertising through the partnership
News Mixcloud launches Select, a ‘fan-to-creator’ subscription audio service Select uses a 'flexible channel-based' subscription model that allows creators to set their own price
News India’s JioMusic to rebrand as JioSaavn after $1bn merger – report Saavn's entire catalog will reportedly be made available on JioSaavn
News Hearo.fm launches cryptocurrency that will be integrated with new music streaming service Tune.fm Hearo.fm's cryptocurrency is called the JAM token