Music streaming revolution has left its impact all over the world, but it seems Latin American countries have been influenced by it the most. Latinos are gradually changing the way music is being streamed with a lot of music industry personnel taking decisions based on user’s listening habits. The trend has led the Swedish streaming …
Africa’s leading music streaming and download service, Boomplay has signed a distribution deal with Universal Music Group (UMG) covering multiple markets within Africa. Under this deal, Boomplay will distribute subscription based music from UMG’s world famous labels through its streaming platform in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda and Zambia. Boomplay provides more than thousands …
Music entertainment blog, NotJustOK has rebranded its music streaming platform, formerly known as, MyNotJustOK, to a more user-friendly streaming service, Mino Music. With this strategic move, the Mino Music app is expected to expand their reach across the African continent as well as strengthen their hold as the go-to music streaming service in Africa. Ademola …
Live music streaming platform Deezer has added local radio stations to its platform where online music streamer can listen to popular radio stations by categories such as “music”, “talk”, and “international”. Deezer, the French audio streaming platform is slowly catching up to its rivals such as Apple Music, Prime Music, Google Play Music, and Spotify. …
Universal Music Group becomes the first major music company to license its catalog to Boomplay, a leading music streaming service provider. Under this strategic partnership, Boomplay will add tracks from UMG labels to its current catalog of over two million songs, providing service to 36 million plus users in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia …
Audio streaming platform Pandora has registered $417.6 million in its Q3 earnings as a result of catapulting business of its paid products such as Pandora Plus and Pandora Premium. The two paid products have brought in $125.8 million in Q3 – a 49% increase year-over-year. However, the American music streaming service’s primary user base is …
Leading music streaming service, Spotify is finally making its way to the Middle East and North Africa. The company’s streaming services are now available to many countries of the region such as Lebanon, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, and Algeria. With the launch in the MENA region, Spotify is …
Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation, Sony is reportedly considering to launch its own music streaming service in the future. Sony has a wide music catalogue and had earlier acquired Michael Jackson’s estate share of EMI Music Publishing for $287 million. Acknowledging Spotify’s leadership in the music streaming industry, Rob Stringer, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment quoted …
E-commerce giant Amazon announces the arrival of its music streaming service in Canada. The recently launched music streaming service, Amazon Music Unlimited is an expansion of recently launched Prime Music and is expected to compete with streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify. Amazon Music Unlimited is expected to be available at $7.99 for …
Satellite radio company SiriusXM has agreed to buy music streaming company Pandora at about $3.5 billion. With the deal, Sirius can tap into the mobile strength of Pandora while helping it in areas such as making personalized listening recommendations. The partnership also offers Sirius access to tens of millions of listeners moving to music streaming …
