Deezer’s New App Serves Up 30,000 Radio Stations for Free; A Boost in Classical Streaming

Deezer’s new app serves up 30,000 radio stations for free — www.engadget.com Deezer has unveiled a new app that will give users access…

Deezer’s new app serves up 30,000 radio stations for free — www.engadget.com 
 Deezer has unveiled a new app that will give users access to 30,000 radio stations around the world. “Radio by Deezer,” only available on Android in the UK for…

Country Music Consumption Up In 2018 As Shift To Streaming Continues — www.billboard.com 
 Fans have multiple ways to consume music in 2019, and in appropriate fashion, three different artists led four year-end Nielsen Music country lists for 2018 with Luke Combs, Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean feeling the love on different platforms.

LiveXLive Looks To Mirror MTV And ESPN As The First Global Network For Live Music Events — www.forbes.com 
 I spoke with Chairman and CEO Robert Ellin about the vision behind his company, disrupting the broadcasting space and his plans for leading the first global network dedicated to live music.

Vinyl-on-demand service Qrates inks first major label imprint partnership with Warner Music’s Run Out Groove — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com 
 Qrates will provide the label with manufacturing and D2C solutions

BPI says there was a ‘surge’ in classical streaming in 2018 — musically.com 
 Like jazz, classical music is a sector that is often described as being under-served by the big, global streaming services, thanks to challenges including its extra layers of metadata, not to mention the length of its tracks — a half-hour performance doesn’t monetise well in a per-stream environment built for single songs.

Pandora launches a personalized voice assistant on iOS and Android — techcrunch.com 
 Pandora today announced the launch of its own, in-app voice assistant which you can call up at any time by saying “Hey Pandora,” followed by a request to play the music or podcasts you want to hear. The feature will allow you to not only control music playback with commands to play a sp…

The HomePod now counts towards streaming limits with Apple Music — appleinsider.com 
 Sometime in 2019, Apple quietly changed how the HomePod is counted by the Apple Music service as a streaming device, resulting in a slightly more restrictive device for the end-user.

iHeartRadio Launches a Broadway Channel and Digital Hub — www.billboard.com 
 Fans of show tunes are getting another place to get their fix now that iHeartRadio has launched a Broadway channel and online hub.

Without HMV, predictable streaming algorithms will ruin our taste in music — www.telegraph.co.uk 
 Root through the bottom of my bedroom drawers and you’ll find an assortment of CDs that haven’t seen the light of day in some time.

‘I love the freedom’: Dido on new music, No Angel and the streaming revolution — www.musicweek.com 
 The singer’s new album Still On My Mind, the follow-up to 2013’s Girl Who Got Away, is a collaboration with her brother Rollo Armstrong and is released via BMG on March 8.

SoundExchange Appoints Helaine S. Klasky as Chief Communications Officer — www.billboard.com 
 SoundExchange has appointed Helaine S. Klasky to chief communications officer of the collective rights management organization, it was announced Wednesday.

Why I Ditched Music Streaming Services (For Now) And Bought A 1–800 Number — www.hypebot.com

Here one innovative music biz self-starter explains how successfully he eschewed traditional streaming service in favor of an incredibly old-school marketing tactic using, drum roll, the telephone.

Spotify’s global user base grew faster last year than it did in 2017 — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com 
 Monthly active users jumped 43m in 2018 — but subscriber growth is more complicated