Songfluencer Wants to Predict the Next TikTok Hit; Waze Brings Amazon Music Into App; Shazam Surpasses 200M Monthly Active Users Worldwide

Data-driven startup Songfluencer uses analytics to drive TikTok marketing instead of “randomly handing checks to influencers.”

Waze has added yet another music and audio service to its app, with the integration of Amazon Music.

Tones and I’s single Dance Monkey also named as the most-Shazamed track ever.

Podcasters have been waiting for this for years .

Opera has added a new Player feature that will give users instant access to Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music. Users can remain logged in to all three music streaming platforms and alternate between them.

The business, and it is a business, of ascertaining who contributed what to a finished recording (a unit of copyright, to put it even less romantically) has always been complicated and often contentious.

Google Music is dead, and with it one of the few remaining connections I have to the company that doesn’t feel like a gun to my head.

On November 27, developers, designers, and people from the cultural sector will come together for the first inclusive online hackathon. The goal is to develop prototypes for digital tools on an open-source basis in 48 hours.

Growth of 11% in 2019 predicted to reverse this year with collapse of live sector.

On this episode of How Music Charts, Pandora's Dan Wissinger and Jay Troop explain how to get the most out of Pandora, why it matters, and how you can leverage your Pandora data.

Earlier this month, we wrote about how online brand LadBible had put Craig David and KSI on people's desks via an augmented reality music video.

Going into its spring 2020 season, Vermont's Lyric Theatre had to do something unprecedented: postpone a production. The company was set to present Matilda the...

Add your own amp and speakers and you’ll have a killer audio system on a reasonable budget.

Most contemporary rock bands might struggle to gain traction on streaming services, but classic acts are doing very nicely, thank you.

Deep collaboration with LyricFind means DTS Connected Radio users can access the world’s largest, most accurate, multi-language lyrics catalogue for enhanced in-vehicle radio listening.

Influential record label Monstercat has teamed up with Twitch to allow Gold Subscribers to leapfrog the queue for Affiliate status.

In the fiscal fourth quarter, which ended on October 3, Sonos' revenue grew 16%, although the quarter was 14 weeks long.

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