Bob Seger & (Not) Streaming; Spotify Debuts ‘Traffic Jams’; The Music Industry’s Quest for Consumer…
Where Have All The Bob Seger Albums Gone? — www.npr.org In the era of streaming music, everything ever recorded is supposed to be at our…
Where Have All The Bob Seger Albums Gone? — www.npr.org
In the era of streaming music, everything ever recorded is supposed to be at our fingertips. So how did one of the biggest names in the Classic Rock canon go missing?
Spotify Debuts ‘Traffic Jams’, A Show With a Familiar Concept — variety.com
Put artists in a car, tune up the music, drive around… sounds familiar. Spotify gave it a new twist for “Traffic Jams.”
Projecting Trends: The Music Industry’s Quest for Consumer Data — blog.synchtank.com
Bas Grasmayer looks at how the music industry has been collecting and understanding consumer data over the years, and how that data is being used.
Report: Free trials push Apple Music ahead of Pandora and Spotify on mobile usage — techcrunch.com
Spotify may be the reigning leader when it comes to the largest number of paid subscribers for a streaming music service, but it’s Apple that comes out on..
From Airwaves to Earbuds — medium.com
The runaway success of the podcast “Serial,” which originated within the public radio show “This American Life,” helped spark interest in the medium, which is reaching new audiences.
How Spotify Curated the Ultimate Playlist for Brand Growth — adage.com
Spotify scientists are pushing data-driven marketing throughout the company, Global VP Mayur Gupta tells Drew Neisser.
Pandora hails playlists as ‘streaming’s standard unit’ — musically.com
“Today, outside of the vinyl LP resurgence, there are no indications the playlist won’t be streaming’s standard unit for the foreseeable future.”
Are You Really Listening to The Music ? — audiophilereview.com
Paul Wilson Looks at Audiophile’s listening habits.
Watch what happens when Spotify gives unknown music acts a big push — www.recode.net
The playlist effect.
Rehearsal platform Pirate Studios expands to ‘support the future of UK music’ — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
An innovative circuit of rehearsal rooms for up-and-coming artists has expanded across eight major cities in the UK — taking its total operation to more than 90 studios. Pirate Studios offers artists a taste of professional quality rehearsal rooms from £4-an-hour, with locations in Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Leicester, Liverpool, Sheffield, London and Nottingham.
Streaming takes over from downloads as the future of music — www.smh.com.au
Newly released sales figures for 2016 show we’re a nation of borrowers rather than owners of music, preferring to spend our money on streaming services.
Creating an active fanbase on Spotify — medium.com
The image above is my Spotify listener stats….notice the huge spike on the right? That’s the point at which I got off my ass and started treating it like a Social Media platform.
Airtel Wynk Music Streaming Service Hits 50 Million App Installs; Introduces Ads — gadgets.ndtv.com
Wynk didn’t reveal how many paid subscribers it has but it did say that on an average people use the app for 75 minutes every day.