Does Digital Music Sound Better Than Analog?; How Much Data Do Music Streaming Apps Use?

Does Digital Music Sound Better Than Analog? — www.cnet.com 
 Audiophiles are still divided on the subject, but one thing is certain, the fascination with analog is still going strong.

Streaming can attract the broadest audience ever to music, Edgar Bronfman says — www.cnbc.com 
 The music business is better off now than in the heydays of the 1980s and ’90s, says former Warner Music Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr.

Meet the streaming service with 20m users… that’s also a record label — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

While Daniel Ek’s company has so far made no real noise in that area — paying for its own mood-playlist fillers aside — there is another streaming service that’s being open about its venture into label land.

How Much Data Do Music Streaming Apps Use — www.thrillist.com 
 Streaming music on your phone on the go can be a data suck, but just how much of your plan do Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and other serv…

Spotify Adds Former Disney COO Tom Staggs to Board — www.hollywoodreporter.com 
 The music-streaming firm also adds three other directors, including a former YouTube top executive.

Blockchain music service Aurovine has new features — musically.com 
 British blockchain startup BlockPool is the company behind music-discovery service Aurovine, which has ben going since 2012.

Music streaming in Australia growing rapidly, but vinyl sales still keeping up — www.smh.com.au 
 Bill Rothery now considers his monthly music subscription bill to be “more important than electricity”.

Music Data Should Not Become ‘Part of an Arms Race’, says PRS CEO — www.m-magazine.co.uk 
 Addressing PRS members and the wider industry at the society’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), he said that sharing intelligence and working together are essential to ensuring ‘the right people are paid the right money as fast and accurately as possible’.

Epidemic Sound talks YouTube: ‘We’re a music company that really understands the platform’ — musically.com 
 Epidemic Sound was founded in 2009 by a group of TV producers and musicians, who had been making online video content and trying to clear music rights.

Deezer’s Julien Simon exits after nine years — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

Deezer’s Vice President of Music Rights and Label Relations, Julien Simon, is leaving the company after nine years.