Share this postPlatform & StreamHow Mobile Apps Drive the Music Industry; Why Streaming May Predict the Next Country StarsCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreHow Mobile Apps Drive the Music Industry; Why Streaming May Predict the Next Country StarsPlatform & StreamNov 10, 2017Share this postPlatform & StreamHow Mobile Apps Drive the Music Industry; Why Streaming May Predict the Next Country StarsCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreShareThe music industry must take advantage of mobile-first strategies to stand out in a crowded marketplace.While Apple Music and Spotify focus on the latest and greatest in mainstream music, Deezer CEO Hans-Holger Albrecht says his company focuses on curating a locally-sourced music library.Increasingly unloved and abandoned in the age of instant music streaming, the compact disc has been dying a miserable death. Taylor Swift, of all people, is here to bring it back.Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., the company behind giant Chinese media startup Jinri Toutiao, has acquired buzzy teen social video app Musical.ly for about $800 million, according to people familiar with the deal.DME will showcase and promote the success of the European digital music industry.How streaming platforms like Spotify and Pandora are helping predict the next generation of country stars.Pandora is in trouble, as explained by the consistently excellent Tim Ingham at Music Business Worldwide, after losing a billion dollars over the last four years and monthly active users (MAU) fell to 73.7 million – its lowest point since Q1 2014. Regular readers will know that I’m a long-time advocate of Pandora’s model. Indeed,…Liberty Media, the company controlled by billionaire mogul and chairman John Malone that houses such assets as satellite radio company SiriusXM Radio, the Atlanta Braves baseball club and the Formula One racing circuit, on Thursday reported its third-quarter financials.A technical error has led to a drop in the follower counts for a number of Spotify playlists, but the streaming service says it is correcting the problem.The US streaming music market is the largest in the world, driven by Spotify's 38 percent subscriber base. The average US music listener enjoys 35.7 hours.Mighty is basically an iPod Shuffle for offline Spotify playback, but when I reviewed it over the summer it was missing that namesake feature. Well, not anymore...PreviousNext