Music Streaming Is Hot, But It Can’t Skip a Beat
Music Streaming Is Hot, But It Can’t Skip a Beat — www.bloomberg.com
An estimated 100 million people pay to listen each month, but the model is still shaky.
Streaming Now Officially the Number One Way We Listen to Music in America — pitchfork.com
Streaming consumption beat digital sales for the first time in history, according to new Nielsen report.
Music listening: Are we heading towards a data blackout? — www.thedrum.com
New year, new me, new industry reports, new forecasts.
Prince’s Estate Nearing Streaming Deals Pegged to Grammy-Night Tribute, Possibly Featuring The Weeknd, Rihanna, Bruno Mars — www.billboard.com
Representatives for Prince’s estate are nearing a deal that could have some of the artist’s greatest hits available for streaming on major services like Spotify and Apple Music in time for the Grammy Awards, which are planning a tribute to the legend.
High-res music-streaming service Tidal launches MQA support (finally) — www.techhive.com
Tidal has one thing going for it: High-resolution music streaming. Adding MQA support will render the service even more unique. And there will be plenty of other ways to enjoy MQA-encoded music in 2017.
2017 Streaming Wars: Will Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Dominate? — www.billboard.com
With new competitors and momentum, the sector led by Spotify and Apple Music is poised to change dramatically. BUT can it survive its biggest challenges?
Music streaming, spurred on by Drake and Rihanna, has now surpassed digital music sales for the first time — qz.com
“Slowly at first, and then all at once.” To quote those words from Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is to describe, in the most succinct way, what’s happened to the music industry in recent years — specifically, its incredible takeover by digital music streaming.
Drake Was A Music Streaming Juggernaut In 2016 — www.hotnewhiphop.com
Can Drake do better than this in 2017? While it might seem obvious to us, not everyone realizes how popular streaming music is. Now we have the numbers to ba…
Phish Announces Riviera Maya Mexico Webcasts — www.jambase.com
Here’s your chance to watch all three nights of Phish Riviera Maya in Mexico from the comfort of home.
Why Spotify and Apple Music are Losing Traffic to YouTube and SoundCloud — www.digitalmusicnews.com
Spotify and Apple Music are at a constant and crippling disadvantage to YouTube to SoundCloud. But why is that, and will it ever change?