In the early days of the digital economy we were promised that new technologies would make available overlooked content in a digitally-enabled 'long tail'. But this has never happened: as is instanced by the non-availability of two important pioneering Korngold recordings
SiriusXM confirmed the New Year's Eve concerts that will air on its channels including Phish's show at Madison Square Garden and Dead & Company's performance at the Chase Center.
2019 has seen a resurrection of the concept album.
YouTube Music is taking on Spotify, Apple Music and others with the launch of three personalized playlists, including its own version of Spotify’s Discover Weekly, called Discover Mix, as well as a New Release Mix and Your Mix.
Company is adding over 3m active users every month.
Royalty collections up nearly 250% for the year
Listen. Spotify’s tired of screwing around here. The company spent a lot of money on podcasts. Like, a lot, a lot. And it really needs you to start listening to things, because it’s almost certainly going to spend even more in the coming years.
At this point, it’s completely natural and common to question the rationality of signing an old-school, major-label deal. The insurgence of self-serve tools for creating, distributing and marketing music has dramatically expanded the number of ways artists can structure their recording businesses today.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Super Hi-Fi for its A.I.-powered capability which dynamically creates rich, personalized audio segments based on listener or brand preferences and instantly inserts them between songs mid-stream on digital audio platforms.
We'll see all sorts of fun new audio toys at CES 2020, but the biggest trends will center around true wireless earbuds and immersive audio formats. Here's some background on the latest advancements in fully wireless earbuds and formats like Dolby Atmos that we expect to feature heavily in Vegas this year.
Spotify has flirted with offering lossless audio, but now the company is advertising 320kbps as 'high-quality sound' as hi-res audio competition heats up.
Prashan Agarwal - The music lover of 2020 will have some of the best tech minds and most gifted musicians across the world baying for his attention, with advertisers queuing across the block for seconds of this attention span while streaming players will continue to fuel this unending cycle., , music, music industry
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