Songkick Announces Shazam Partnership; Spotify Swims Up'stream' In CD-Obsessed Japan

The music market in Japan is the second-largest music market globally, with close to three billion in sales per year. Will the recent Spotify launch make a positive impact?

The Gaana Facebook Messenger Bot is the world’s first music streaming Bot inside the Facebook messenger app, claims the company.

Songkick is teaming up with Shazam to give users of the music discovery app a front row seat to its trove of concert data and information.

According to a source close to a major record label, Flipagram dismissed its entire Music Division last week, with employees sending out dismissal e-maill.

Vivendi beat analyst expectations thanks largely to Universal Music Group's strong 2016 revenue. That included $1.1 billion streaming revenue this year.

Spotify could be slowly killing the storage devices of users on the PC, Mac or Linux. Investigations revealed gigabytes of junk data being written in less than an hour, with the problem happening even while the app is idle.