How The Music Streaming Boom Is Growing; New App qWaqq; SiriusXM Launching Beatles Channel

How The Music Streaming Boom Is Growing: Outlook From SongCast — www.forbes.com 
 How music distributor SongCast has grown by championing independent music, paying 100% royalties and avoiding paywalls.

New Music Streaming App qWaqq Features Exclusive, Previously Unreleased Music By Hit Songwriters — americansongwriter.com

qWaqq offers fans unprecedented access to the composers of their favorite songs.

SiriusXM Launching Beatles Channel on May 18 — platformandstream.com 
 SiriusXM is set to debut The Beatles Channel, launching May 18 at 9:09 am ET exclusively on SiriusXM channel 18.

Streaming generates vast amounts of royalty data, and not all collecting societies are coping — www.completemusicupdate.com

The growth of streaming has meant a vast increase in the amount of data being supplied to collecting societies in order to calculate the royalty payments due to songwriters and music publishers.

Own the Music You Stream with Resonate — blog.bigchaindb.com 
 Peter Harris, a web developer, an electronic DJ and producer, he has had moments of clarity into seeing the future.

Zane Lowe and Beats 1 Are Trying to Turn Apple Music Into Netflix — theringer.com

Beats 1 creative director Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s goal in the music streaming wars, the diminishing value of exclusives, and the genius of Drake.

Twitter Plans Live Nation Concert Streams, Daily Show From Ben Silverman — www.billboard.com 
 Twitter on Monday unveiled a broad slate of original programming deals designed to help turn the social network into a hub for live television.

Spotify Messages Are Easier Than Ever With This Secret Message Maker App — www.edmsauce.com 
 Making Spotify messages is easier than ever with this secret message maker app.