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How Soundcloud Could Transform Deezer’s Market Narrative — musicindustryblog.wordpress.com

How Soundcloud Could Transform Deezer’s Market Narrative — musicindustryblog.wordpress.com

News has emerged of Deezer being a potential buyer of troubled Soundcloud. This follows on from Spotify’s prolonged but ultimately abortive courting last year.

Nielsen’s Mid-Year Music Report Confirms Streaming Has Become A Gusher — www.forbes.com 
 Today comes further confirmation of streaming’s dominance. According to Nielsen’s midyear music report, on-demand audio streams topped 184 billion, up 62.4% over the first six months of last year.

Music Industry Didn’t Learn From Its Digital Destruction — www.bloomberg.com 
 The power brokers aren’t responsible for its revival.

Kanye West Is Reportedly Done With Exclusive Streaming Releases for His Music — www.complex.com 
 TMZ reports Kanye West wants to stop doing exclusive releases with music streaming services.

Spotify Premium Users Can Now Adjust Track Playback Position From the iOS Lock Screen — www.macrumors.com 
 Spotify has quietly added the ability for users to adjust the playback position of the currently playing track directly from the iOS lock screen. …

How Streaming Services Are Saving the Music Industry — www.bloomberg.com

David Israelite, National Music Publishers Association’s chief executive officer, discusses the impact of streaming services on the music industry with Bloomberg’s Vonnie Quinn and Anna Edwards on “Bloomberg Markets.

White Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army’ streams up 16,893% — www.nme.com

The White Stripes’ streams for ‘Seven Nation Army’ have increased by 16,893% following Jeremy Corbyn chants at Glastonbury.

971k pirate downloads of Jay-Z album in first 72 hours says Muso — musically.com 
 The exclusivity arrangements around Jay-Z’s new album ‘4.44’ meant that even brand-new Tidal subscribers couldn’t stream the album.

Hennepin County Library launching music streaming service featuring local artists — www.fox9.com 
 Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and now MnSpin — that’s the name of the new online music streaming and download service the Hennepin County Library is launching this year.

Plymouth professor’s ‘digi hat’ could rock music streaming — www.bbc.com 
 A hat that measures brain signals is tipped to be the future of music on the go.