Share this postFor Music Biz, a Glass Half Full | Samsung's Milk Music Officially Shuts Downplatformstream.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherFor Music Biz, a Glass Half Full | Samsung's Milk Music Officially Shuts DownPlatform & StreamSep 23, 2016Share this postFor Music Biz, a Glass Half Full | Samsung's Milk Music Officially Shuts Downplatformstream.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherShareThe best thing the labels could do to nurture the paid streaming market is to encourage more competitors to get into it.Digital revenue is offsetting declining physical sales at the Big Three music labels.Facebook looks set to make a major splash in music in the coming months… if a revealing new job ad is anything to go by. The social media giant is currently recruiting for a Director Of Global Music Licensing.The long, slow death of Samsung's streaming radio service Milk Music in the United States has finally arrived.It's no secret that how music is discovered and consumed is changing at a dizzying pace, thanks to streaming music. The latest proof is a survey that shows that listening to playlists have surpassed albums for the first time ever.Rock solid sources tell us that iHeart has two brand names locked and loaded for the services.To find out how music listening changes by season, Spotify analyzed the stream counts and genres of the 100,000 most popular artists over a two year period, using global, anonymous, aggregated listening data.After years of shrinking profits due to online piracy and falling prices, revenue is now up 8.1 percent for the first half of the year, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.This playlist is on shuffle. Spotify will soon be looking for New York City digs as large as 350,000 square feet. The Swedish-based music-streaming app, which currently has an office in Chelsea at RXR Realty’s 620 Sixth Avenue, hired brokers at JLL to start the search for a new headquarters,PreviousNext