Amazon Music Can Now Play Spatial Audio on Favorite Headphones; UK Regulator to Probe Music Streaming Market; Midemlab Names Hottest Music/Tech Startups

Amazon has announced that subscribers of its Amazon Music Unlimited service can now listen to spatial audio music tracks with their favorite headphones using the Amazon Music app for Android and iOS.

The UK’s antitrust watchdog will take a close look at the music streaming market.

The Midemlab startups contest is now a key pillar of annual music industry conference Midem, and it's come a long way since its original incarnation.

Downwrite, the pioneering collaborative songwriting experience, is today boosting its artists’ earning potential with new industry-disrupting splits and opening the door to exclusive co-ownership deals for commissioners using its platform to buy customized, original music.

A new study using music streaming data to measure national mood underlines how much stock markets are governed by emotion rather than rational calculation.

Investment firm KKR has joined with Dundee Partners to purchase the KMR Music Royalties II portfolio from Kobalt Capital for approximately $1.1 billion.

Celebration is in honor of what would be Petty's 71st birthday on October 20th and a year following the "Wildflowers" reissue.

UK's last cassette shop reels in nostalgic music lovers.

Spotify is set to hire hundreds more sales staff to boost its ad revenue beyond being a fraction of the streaming and podcasting company's income.

Back in October last year, I wrote a long(ish) blog dissecting the performance of a 6-episode podcast documentary that I had just made, The Town That Didn’t Stare.

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