Spoon Launch “Aura Reader” With Spotify; 5 Countries With Big Streaming Gains in 2016

The web app analyzes your top 10 Spoon songs and presents you with custom cover artwork.

Founded out of Stockholm in 2013, Soundtrack Your Business offers two core products — Spotify Business and Soundtrack Business. They’re basically B2B versions of the popular music-streaming service that offer additional features, such as the ability to manage playlists in multiple locations from a central hub. So if you manage a giant chain of stores such as Starbucks, for example, you can control music in individual stores remotely.

Things are looking up for the global recorded music market. The few publicly available 2016 results show these countries’ recorded music markets on the rise. Large streaming gains have overshadowed…

As major music companies push for more revenue and streaming companies higher subscriptions, it's now tipped that 2017 will be the year when High Res Audio goes big.

SiriusXM appears to have brought one dispute over the public performance of pre-1972 sound recordings to conclusion. On Thursday, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals told a lower court to grant the satcaster's motion for summary judgment and dismiss with prejudice a putative class action lawsuit brought by Flo & Eddie of The Turtles.

Prince's music enjoyed more than 4.7 million streams in just two days after his content rolled out across streaming services.

SoundCloud is ready to roll out its programmatic advertising to a broader audience.

Music rightsholders are watching Facebook’s evolving music strategy carefully – including publishers notching up their pressure on the social network.

We wanted to know how leveraging streaming can help broaden awareness of Hi-Res Audio beyond the Baby Boomer consumer demographic that is more familiar with high-quality audio’s benefits.

Music video is streaming music’s killer app, says MIDiA's Mark Mulligan. 45% of consumers watch music videos on YouTube or Vevo every month. Now both video services are in the middle of a major reset and Facebook is showing increasing interest.

Apple Music is a good start, but the company should also fix iTunes, improve AirPlay, and consider getting back into the speaker game.

Future joins the long line of artists including Drake and DJ Khaled with Beats 1 radio shows.

Looking to enhance user experience and build on partnerships, Live music streaming startup Streo Technologies gets investments from GEMS and Quarizon.