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Diplo: “Technology Has Never Benefited the Artist. It’s Always Benefited the...
…from an interview with Charlie Rose, which also featured Sonny Moore (aka Skrillex). Charlie Rose: Let’s look at this clip with [Spotify CEO] Daniel Ek, here it is. Daniel Ek clip (from 5/1/2014):...
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48% of Apple Music Trial Users Have Abandoned the Service
Amongst active Apple iOS users… Are you aware of Apple Music? Are you currently using Apple Music? If you’ve already started a free trial on Apple Music, are you still using it? If you’ve already...
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Shazam’s Matching Algorithm Can’t Identify Any Money
Shazam’s just-filed annual summary (source: UK Companies House) Despite a monstrous 120 million app installs, 20 million requests daily, a leading position in music recognition, and approximately $150...
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Apple Music Now Available for $1.57 a Month (In China)
The official announcement was made this morning, with monthly Apple Music pricing at 10 yuan, or $1.57. That’s wildly different that US pricing, though just like the American installation, payment...
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100 Million Fewer Downloads Have Been Sold In 2015
The year-to-date drop was precisely 92.2 million song downloads as of September 31st, according to stats released today by Nielsen for the first three quarters of 2015. At this rate, the yearly gap...
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SoundCloud Has 99 Problems, But Falling Traffic Isn’t One of Them
If SoundCloud has 99 problems, why isn’t falling traffic one of them? As this article is being written, Soundcloud is battling a serious copyright lawsuit from UK-based PRS for Music, a situation...
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Spotify Kills Piracy AND Paid Downloads, European Study Finds
Spotify is causing a noticeable drop in music piracy, according to a just-released European Commission study. But Spotify also dramatically reducing paid downloads from iTunes and Amazon, with the...
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Adele’s “Hello” Is the First Song Ever to Hit 1 Million Downloads In a Week
Adele’s ‘Hello’ has just sold 1.11 million downloads in one week, the first time any song has sold more than a million downloads in seven days or less. The data comes from Nielsen, with a large bulk...
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The Popularity of Digital Music Services, 2004-present
// From Google’s beta-stage measurement analysis of topics, designed to accurately measure overall interest in a broader topic area, not just one specific search term. Results are relative to...
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Updated: Adele’s ’25’ Has Already Sold 2.5 Million Copies
Updated: November 24th, 9:20 am PT (12: 30 ET): Sales of 25 have now surpassed 2.45 million copies and are rapidly approaching 2.5 million after just 4-5 days on the market, according to data now...
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By 2021, the Paid Music Download Will Be Dead
Sources: Nielsen (2005-2015); Digital Music News projections (2016-2021) Who downloads anymore? By 2021, the actual answer will be virtually no one, at least on a paid level. Last year, paid song...
View ArticleWhy Is a 10-Minute Silent Song Climbing the iTunes Charts?
According to iTunes, the best sound of 2017 is absolute silence. It was initially an iTunes hack. But Samir Mezrahi has now created one of iTunes’ hottest tracks of the summer. How? By uploading a...
View ArticlePatreon Acquires Kit to Help Its Content Creators Better Sell Merch
Patreon’s new acquisition of Kit, a New York-based e-commerce startup, will hopefully enable content creators to make more money. Patreon is a platform that allows supporters of an artist to...
View ArticleApple Is Preparing to Break Up iTunes Into Music, Podcast, Video Apps, Report...
Will we soon see the end of Apple’s game-changing iTunes? According to a new report, Apple has prepared to break up iTunes. On desktops, at least. Likely examining the iTunes desktop’s code, software...
View ArticleClass-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Apple for Allegedly Selling iTunes Users’...
Several weeks ago, speaking with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that online privacy now faces a huge “crisis.” He explained, “Privacy in itself has become a crisis. It’s of that...
View ArticleFormer Apple App Store Boss: ‘I Completely Understand the Complaints from...
According to CEO Tim Cook, Apple doesn’t focus on gathering and using consumers’ personal information for advertising. On the contrary, a massive Apple billboard in Las Vegas boastfully proclaims,...
View ArticleiTunes Is Dead: Apple Shifts Away from iTunes and Toward Its Separate Music App
According to music industry insiders speaking with Digital Music News, Apple had formally prepared to shut down iTunes music downloads on March 31st, 2019. Pointing to an eventual shutdown of the...
View ArticleiTunes is Dead — So, What About My Purchased Music, Movies, and TV Shows?
According to most media outlets, Apple’s iconic (albeit often-maligned) iTunes is now dead. CNN’s headline proudly proclaims, “RIP iTunes as we know it. Apple breaks up iconic music platform.” Stating...
View ArticleApple Confirms That It Isn’t Killing iTunes Music Downloads — Yet
So, is iTunes really dead? Apparently, not just yet. Aiming to ease users’ anxieties over their previously purchased content on iTunes, Apple has officially released a support document detailing...
View ArticleApple Starts Removing iTunes Branding, Including Links, From Its Websites
So, is or isn’t iTunes dead? Last week, on the opening day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple subtly confirmed its popular download store would go away on macOS 10.15 Catalina. The...
View ArticleApple Ends Free Streaming Of iTunes Radio Stations Worldwide
Earlier this month, Apple announced that it would end its free iTunes radio-listening at the end of January. That shift is already in effect. True to earlier reports, ”Apple has officially ended free...
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