How Sirius Buying Pandora Could Create a ‘Music Powerhouse’

How Sirius Buying Pandora Could Create a ‘Music Powerhouse’ — www.thestreet.com

A deal for the streaming music service would ‘future proof’ Sirius’ business model and create a formidable media entity, says an analyst.

How Apple’s App Store rescued Shazam from ‘near death’ — musically.com 
 Fourteen years is several lifetimes in digital music, but for the first six years of its existence, Shazam was teetering on the brink of total collapse.

Taburete: We plan all our shows based on Spotify — www.iq-mag.net 
 Spanish band Taburete, who will in March play Madrid’s Barclaycard Arena, say their Spotify listens are key to determining demand for their live act.

Leading digital music streaming provider Spotify conquers Asia — scandasia.com

“We have seen quicker growth in the last six months than before. When we announced our 40 million subscribers we looked back on when we launched, and it took us six years to get to our first ten million subscribers, then a year to get the next ten and the last ten came on board in the last six months.

So the acceleration of music streaming adoption is here, it’s not the future, it’s the now!” says Sunita Kaur, Managing Director Spotify Asia.

Opinion: Artificial Intelligence and How It Will Change Music Production — www.deephouseamsterdam.com 
 Discussing the latest developments and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on music production

The Year in Streaming 2016 — pitchfork.com 
 The most trusted voice in music.

Analytics In An Artist’s World — www.hypebot.com 
 Revelator CEO Bruno Guez explores how the latest evolution of data driven niche marketing by companies such as Netflix could be applied in different ways to the music industry, particularly as music streaming occupies an increasingly large segment of the market.

Hungama Music launches original audio series & curated playlists — www.medianama.com 
 Hungama Music has launched an original audio series called Mera Wala Music which will broadcast the stories of musicians.

Screenvision, KAOS Connect, LiveXLive to Bring Music Festivals to Movie Screens — platformandstream.wordpress.com

Loton Corp’s LiveXLive subsidiary has entered into an agreement with KAOS Connect and Screenvision Media to exhibit its “Best of the Fest” music festival series, showcasing LiveXLive’s produced and curated content from leading music artists and labels.