Songkick Announces Shazam Partnership; Spotify Swims Up’stream’ In CD-Obsessed Japan
Spotify Swims Up’stream’ In CD-Obsessed Japan — www.forbes.com
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?
Ticketing Platform Songkick Announces Shazam Partnership — www.billboard.com
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.
Is Flipagram About to Exit the Music Industry and Shutter Its App? — www.digitalmusicnews.com
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.
UMG Makes $4.48 Million a DAY from Streaming Music — www.digitalmusicnews.com
Vivendi beat analyst expectations thanks largely to Universal Music Group’s strong 2016 revenue. That included $1.1 billion streaming revenue this year.
Spotify Junk Data Issue: Music Streaming App Slowly Killing Your Hard Drives By Writing Gigabytes Of Junk Data — www.techtimes.com
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.
Gaana launches India’s first music streaming Bot — www.radioandmusic.com
The Gaana Facebook Messenger Bot is the world’s first music streaming Bot inside the Facebook messenger app, claims the company.