Deezer Reveals 'Search By Lyrics' Feature; New Drive-In Concert Series From Encore Live; Spotify Confident in Podcast Strategy

Encore Live is partnering with entertainment technology company MetaMedia to offer live-streamed concerts at over 300 drive-in venues in North America in 2021.

Popular subscription streaming platform Deezer has a new search feature its competition would be smart to copy.

UK virtual reality entertainment company MelodyVR is about to change its name to Napster – with plans to launch a combined immersive visual content and subscription music streaming platform later this year.

A State of Armin and Aoki's Remix Radio go live today (January 3) at 12 p.m. ET via the SiriusXM app.

The launch comes ahead of Valentine's Day, and while Deezer (like every streaming service) is curating the traditional mix of romance-themed playlists and content, the new erotica section takes things up a notch.

Podcasts will become an even bigger part of Spotify in 2021.

Drake has joined with broadcast platform Caffeine to unveil a line-up of events for Ultimate Rap League (URL) in 2021.

MusiCares Executive Director Laura Segura pens a personal letter in response to some initial results from the organization's recent "Wellness in Music" survey and discusses how MusiCares is helping the music community through these difficult times.

With artists including Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis and Wham! performing strongly in 2020, Music Week analyses exclusive Official Charts Company data and quizzes execs from UMC, Sony Music CG and Rhino on their catalogue campaigns…

Innovative technology to bring interactivity to both live shows or historic content

So Podz is worth checking out: it's an iPhone app pitched as "your audio newsfeed". What that means is it strips out 60-second clips from the podcasts you like and presents them as an 'infinite playlist', with each clip tappable on to listen to the full original episode.

Spotify published its financial results Q4 2020 on Wednesday (February 3)…

The partnership will focus on artists first by placing hundreds of rising musical artists on LiveXLive's Slacker Radio platform utilizing the proprietary technologies owned and managed by LiveXLive, including more than 40 patents in digital music, data and data mining.

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