The music tools startup has just raised $55 million and is valued at close to $500 million.
This fight between the old guard and the new disruptors has never been more prevalent than what we are seeing right now in the music industry.
Southern California’s alt-rock band Dirty Heads are making a splash with their 2017 track “Vacation,” which earned great charting and streaming success and garnered a TikTok trend in summer 2019 that was catapulted in early January 2021.
The startup HIFI is offering to help solve an unlikely mystery for music’s top artists and their business managers: how much money they’re actually making.
As lockdown took hold, major labels released 1.2m songs in 2020; DIY artists released a staggering 9.5m. That’s an 8 to 1 ratio of artists doing it themselves to labels doing it for them
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When available on wider release, subscribers will be able to choose to share it either through the Messages app or on Instagram through Stories.
Spotify has announced Spotify HiFi, a high-quality streaming tier that will launch later this year. Competitors like Tidal and Amazon already offer lossless streaming, but now the leading music service is getting on board.
In the past year, the music start-up has seen its Monthly Active Users grow by 400%.
Gigs Live interactive streaming and networking platform is bringing multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated rock band Daughtry to your living room for an exclusive, virtual concert.
The Spotify app hasn't seen a major design overhaul for a few years now, but it does get incremental updates on a regular basis. The latest section of the
2020 saw almost 12 million vinyl records sold. This was part of more than 16 million pieces of physical music that was sold worldwide.
As expected, the radio station aggregator was again keen to position itself as simply a sophisticated search engine, meaning that it shouldn’t be any more liable for copyright infringement by connecting people to foreign radio stations than Google.
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