Amazon Music’s Library of Songs, Podcasts Now Free For Prime Subs; Is Music Streaming Reaching a Pricing Threshold?; Jaxsta Adds Data Matching of Works To Recordings

Prime subscribers can now shuffle through more than 100 million songs in Apple music and can get some of the company’s most popular podcasts ad-free as well.

Jaxsta, which houses more than 289 million official music credits from over 330 data partners, bridges the gap between recordings and publishing by initially adding 11 million works from The MLC, accurately matched to many of Jaxsta's 48 million recordings - a number which is growing all of the time.

I’ve been getting this question a LOT recently. With news of Dall-E and Midjourney churning out mind-blowing visual art from a short text prompt, the obvious question is; why not music?

Audio entertainment giant SiriusXM, the home of Howard Stern, said Tuesday that it added 187,000 self-pay subscribers in its satellite radio unit in the third quarter, while paid promotional subscribers decreased by 49,000.

With consumers tightening their belts due to severe inflation, is this a good time for music streaming services to increase their prices?

Last week Apple Music and YouTube Premium did just that, with Spotify and Deezer to follow.

Grainge participated in a Q&A on Universal Music Group's Q3 earnings call last week.

Spotify Wrapped only collects data on user listening habits from January 1 to October 31.

UnitedMasters music distribution has partnered with Pepsi for Pepsi Music Lab, a three day camp for 12 upcoming artists to develop and hone their skills.

Analyzing Spotify’s hosting service contracts.

Amazon unveiled the Amp app in March, with artists, radio hosts, journalists and listeners able to launch their own music station and play DJ.

Spotify ran multiple build tests on different hardware and found that the build times on machines with Apple silicon were 43% faster overall.

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