Hallelujah! Bob Seger’s Music Finally Arrives on Streaming Services; Spotify Passes 140 Million Users

Bob Seger, one of the last great streaming holdouts, has finally allowed his music onto major services.

Spotify passed 140 million worldwide users as both its revenue and operating loss grew significantly in 2016.

The publishing executive, who oversees the music industry's largest portfolio of music publishing assets attacked streaming services for not giving credit to songwriters at the annual National Music Publishers’ Association meeting in New York.

WAV, a Los Angeles-based live streaming music discovery app and artist platform, has officially launched in all major global markets. The app features exclusive content, such as music videos, docuseries, interviews, and concert footage from both established and emerging artists.

On the surface of it, SiriusXM’s $480m investment into Pandora gives the beleaguered streaming platform what it so desperately needs – time. Time to patch up a business model which looks increasingly busted – and time to make an impact in a cutthroat marketplace stalked by titans.

Spotify has had concert listing recommendations for awhile now thanks to a partnership with Songkick. You could purchase tickets from providers such as Ticketmaster.

Swedish independent music company TEN Music Group has officially launched a streaming and singles focused imprint, Tenacity, with Ali Vedadi appointed Lead A&R. The label’s mission is to start the story for young acts on a single by single basis, aiming to utilize streaming and move quickly when launching songs worldwide.

"Do not assume that we have arrived at your destination," writes music industry analyst Mark Mulligan, referring to live music rather than recordings as the primary income driver for most musicians and the industry.

Spotify and other streaming services aren't very good at managing classical music, which is where new dedicated service Primephonic comes in.

Qualcomm today introduced at its voice and music developer conference in Shenzhen, a new Qualcomm Smart Audio Platform to help manufacturers accelerate the development and commercialization of smart and networked speakers.

Recently, Apple announced that Apple Music has 27 million subscribers. While impressive, it's not enough to catch Spotify, who has more than 50 million paid subscribers, and continues to add users at an impressive space. That gap could be a problem for Apple’s newly announced smart speaker, HomePod. While...

Nielsen today announced that Westwood One, America's largest radio network, has selected Nielsen Marketing Cloud and its advanced data management platform (Nielsen DMP) to launch the first-ever audio DMP

In 2016, Apple Music and Tidal released several timed exclusives. Now, Spotify's Troy Carter claims that timed exclusives hurt the entire music industry.