Spotify Calms Investors; How NPR Is Pushing The Podcast Industry Forward

Spotify Ltd. moved quickly to assure investors that plans to go public are still on track for the music streaming service after co-founder and board member Martin Lorentzon told Swedish radio that reports of an impending New York Stock Exchange listing were false.

The podcast universe is developing fast, and NPR is shaping it. NPR, which began making podcasts over a decade ago, has a US audience of 11.4 million listeners and 80 million downloads monthly across 36 podcast shows. It’s been ranked consecutively for 13 months as the top podcast publisher by measurement firm Podtrac.

Ariana Grande has re-released 'One Last Time' as a benefit single on iTunes.

Spotify has millions of songs that go unheard and Forgotify is a service which brings these songs to the fore. Here is how it works.

Big data has become one of the buzzwords of the modern-day music business, and for good reason. In an increasingly mature digital world, there isn’t a single point in the route to market – from promotion to distribution to retail – that can’t be monitored in incremental detail at the touch of a button.

For 31 weeks last year, Adult Swim dropped a new track every Wednesday from artists like Earl Sweatshirt, Tim Hecker, and Run the Jewels.

The first-ever Share of Ear: Canada, an Edison Research survey commissioned by radio marketing and advocacy group Radio Connects, has determined that broadcast radio listening in Canada is even greater than in the U.S.

To seize this opportunity, localization is key. The most popular music streaming app in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Indonesia is Tencent-owned Joox, and this is largely due to the localized nature of their service.

22 years ago, a German technology revolutionized a whole industry. MP3 changed the way we all listen to music forever. Today it seems as if its days are over as it has largely been replaced by other audio formats. Is MP3 dead? Far from it!

For [PIAS]'s Digital Marketing Manager, correct usage of fanbase data can not only boost collaboration, but also strengthen artists' revenue.

In some cases, the job of composer might be going the way of typewriter repairman and bowling pinsetter as software creates music more cheaply and quickly than humans. Can you hear the difference?