Apple Music's Africa Strategy is Paying Off; Music & Attention Dependency; 'Audio First' Race Heats Up with Apple, Tencent Music

After expanding to 37 countries in Africa last year, Apple Music is establishing influence, subscribers and greater global reach for local artists.

The attention economy defines and shapes today’s digital world. However, we have long since reached peak in the attention economy with all available free time now addressed.

Apple has long been the biggest player in podcasts, but Spotify’s aggressive push into the format appears to have poked the bear awake.

Songtrust is continuing its rapid expansion with several new UK client deals for 2021. Here, director of business development Lara Baker opens up about the company’s mission to democratise global royalty administration.

New S-1 filing reveals large-scale ambitions of The Music Acquisition Corporation.

For decades artists and record labels have used the various music charts as a measure of success, but they may not be measuring true popularity.

The Alibaba-backed company will suspend its operations after more than a decade due to “operational adjustments.”

Smaller services are coming under scrutiny now that the big platforms have warmed to aggressive moderation.

On 31 January, the show will be rebroadcast again globally – with different streaming times depending on geography – and once again it will be a ticketed event. 

The video includes close-up photographs of 100 individual nurses, from across the United States, in multiple healthcare settings, engaged in community advocacy.

In its first three days, the album beat the country record for first-week streams previously held by Luke Combs. It also continues to break records on the Apple Music Pre-Add Chart.

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