Deezer, Dreamstage Partner on Live Music Streaming; ‘Another One Bites The Dust’ Hits 1B Spotify Streams; DistroKid Reveals Big Distribution Numbers

A strategic partnership will see DREAMSTAGE and Deezer working together to merge recorded and live music in a streamlined experience.

DistroKid announced an update of its 'Splits' royalty distribution service on Friday, but what's even more interesting is a claim made towards the end of the announcement about the distributor's scale overall.

Queen's ground-breaking smash hit Another One Bites The Dust, first released in 1980, has now hit one billion streams on Spotify

On the heels of its expanded partnership with Facebook, Spotify this morning announced new sharing features that broaden the way Spotify content, including both music and podcasts, can be shared across social media.

LUM, the social music community and artist discovery app with over 150,000 independent artists has announced the launch of one of the largest online music competitions of 2021: Coast to Coast.

Hosted by Dae Bogan, The MLC’s Head of Third-Party Partnerships, each session will feature one of The MLC’s DQI partners as they present their version of the DQI as made available to their customers to showcase its capabilities for checking musical works data in bulk.

Immersion Networks, the spatial audio innovators, are launching a cloud platform that allows anyone to upload tracks and mix them in a three-dimensional environment.

Laila Mignoni on the rum brand's recent grooves.

Artists, producers, labels, or anyone who is an owner of music rights are always striving to gain as many streams as possible. But in a world that is so stat-driven, there are plenty of potential issues within streaming numbers--things like streaming fraud, which could easily sabotage the trajectory of an artist’s music career.

Most recently, Wirtzer-Seawood served as President of UnitedMasters…

Executives often tout the importance of Spanish-language audiences, and if recent deals are any clue, Latino viewers are a key part of the streaming wars.

Digital media company LiveXLive Media (NASDAQ: LIVX) stock has been a bit of a rollercoaster experiencing extreme spikes and drops as a speculative play on streaming music and video content.

The top-ranked dance music one-hit wonder, you ask? That would be Cookin' On 3 Burners' "This Girl."

Music creators have been waiting for years for Apple to release its version of a high-fidelity music service to no avail, but indications are that the time may be near.

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