Revenues get a boost for Australian musicians, with growth in Spotify, Apple Music
Streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music are generating growing revenue for Australian musicians, according to new figures. Australian and New Zealand artists earned $62 million in royalties from streaming in the year to date, a 127% growth, according to APRA AMCOS, which is the body responsible for distributing money to artists for their …
Amazon plans to bring Prime Music to India
Amazon India will launch Prime Music streaming service in India. A preview of Prime Music will initially be available to Echo customers at no additional cost. Other Prime members will later have access to Prime Music later on. Bollywood as well as other regional music has been added to Amazon Music catalogue.
Microsoft to move its users to Spotify
Groove Music which is Microsoft’s music store is going to shut down both its Groove Music Pass streaming service and going to disable the ability to purchase songs and albums in the Windows Store. Microsoft has collaborated with Spotify to move its Groove Music Pass customers to Spotify. All songs and playlists that Groove users …
Deezer’s ongoing sports realm expansion as it hits APAC
Deezer has extended its partnership with TalkSport, which is a global audio partner of the Premier League in APAC. This is part of its efforts to capture the rising sports market. Users in Australia and Malaysia can now access all English Premier games. Additionally, they will have full access to English Premier League Games that …
Russia’s google music streaming service collaborates with Facebook
Yandex music which is Russia’s first music streaming service is going to enter a collaboration with Facebook, under which users can share excerpts from music tracks with friends. According to the agreement, Yandex.Music and Facebook, Russian users can listen to 30 second excerpts from music tracks as liked by friends. Entire tracks can be subsequently …
Spotify introduces self-serve platform for audio ads
Spotify’s new ads platform aims to bring a large number of Small and Medium Business (SMB) advertisers to the streaming audio service. In this process, it has introduced its first self-serve platform for marketers to be able to set up and manage audio ad campaigns. Advertisers can decide to upload pre-created ads or upload a …
Spotify may be launched in Thailand and Vietnam
Spotify may be extending its services to Asia. It is considering two music editors in Vietnam and Thailand. So that’s an indication that it may extend its services in Asian countries. As per sources, Spotify may expand to India as well and if that happens, it could give stiff competition to Gaana, Saavn, Google Music …
GOMUSIC partners with Warner Music for live concert streaming
GoMusic streaming service has collaborated with Warner music for live streaming concerts of various top artists in Latin American markets which is predominantly where GoMusic is operational. Top artists including Coldplay, Pablo Alboran, Madonna, Led Zepelin, Linkin Park, Green Day, Eric Clapton, Michael Bublé, Maná, and Alejandro Sanz to name a few are associated with …
Amazon Prime music expands its offering in UK
Amazon Prime’s music streaming service has expanded to UK with addition of radio stations and on-screen lyrics for its users. Tons of online radio stations have been added for users to enjoy a wider variety of music. X-Ray lyrics is another feature that lets users sing along to their favorite songs, kind of like karaoke. …
Audio streaming on the rise from 8% to 45%
According to the latest music consumer insight report published by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI), there is a rise in the number of music consumers across the world that are listening via licensed audio streaming services. The survey of internet users aged 16-64 in the world’s leading music markets revealed the …
