Spotify + Big Data; Discogs; SiriusXM; Music Streaming Apps in China

The Changing Landscape and Model of Music Streaming Platforms — www.adnews.com.au 
 It’s no surprise the music industry hasn’t provided a successful or revolutionary solution to the dissolving revenue streams and profit margins as consumers change their consumption patterns. Why would they be any different to the media and news companies, telco or transportation services (i.e. Uber) where users continue to go over the top direct to…

Music streaming apps upping the ante in a crowded market — technode.com

Competition remains fierce in the crowded music streaming market. Xiaomi Music has become the first Chinese mobile phone manufacturer to obtain licensing rights to Warner Music’s catalog, while NetEase Cloud Music is adding video sharing features.

How Spotify Is Using Big Data to Try to Reward Both Superfans and Musicians — www.pastemagazine.com 
 Spotify is attempting to shift revenue streams by utilizing the biggest music superfans.

How Discogs Dragged Record Collecting Into the 21st Century — thump.vice.com 
 A rare interview with the core team at the beloved music cataloguing database and marketplace.

How to Fix Spotify’s Business Model and Save the Music Industry — www.digitalmusicnews.com 
 Wall Street doesn’t care that Spotify isn’t profitable. They care that Spotify doesn’t have a realistic plan to become profitable.

How do you talk about music? — monocle.com 
 Robert Bound is joined by Hrishikesh Hirway, who’s the creator of the podcast “Song Exploder”, and music journalist Laura Snapes to discuss the formats, language and knowledge required to write and talk about music.

Apple Music and Spotify go head-to-head with Drake More Life stats — musically.com 
 Drake’s ‘More Life’ album has been breaking records on Spotify and Apple Music, with the two streaming services engaging in a public battle of the stats.

Online Radio and Podcast Audiences Continue to Broaden — www.marketingcharts.com 
 Some 61% of Americans aged 12 and older this year report listening to online radio on a monthly basis, and 87% of those listeners (53% of respondents overall) listen on a weekly basis, per the latest edition of the annual Infinite Dial report [pdf]. Both monthly and weekly online radio listening…

Amazon Music’s iOS app infiltrates CarPlay — www.engadget.com 
 Amazon Music subscribers who own a CarPlay-enabled dashboard unit are in luck. Amazon’s streaming service is now available via the iOS Amazon Music app for Appl…

Spotify Says It Can’t Find The Owners of 217,112 Songs — www.hypebot.com

Spotify recently filed 217,112 “address unknown” NOIs with the U.S. Copyright Office saying that they were unable to locate any owner of these copyrighted songs anywhere in public records

SiriusXM Announces Music Lounge 2017 at 1 Hotel South Beach — www.billboard.com 
 “We have been committed to dance music — breaking new music, breaking new acts all across North America — and this is our time to shine and show this to both our music partners and our subscribers.”