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Staccs start-up to launch premium streaming service for concert video — www.musicweek.com 
 Swedish tech start-up Staccs is to launch a premium on-demand streaming service for filmed music concerts.

The Year Without Concerts And How It Changed Music Discovery — uproxx.com

Music discovery rooted in community and communal experiences felt more vital than ever in 2020.

How I gained 1 million streams in 60 hrs with no label or management — theindustryobserver.thebrag.com 
 Sydney’s independent instrumental progressive virtuoso, Plini, details how he did it.

Inside TikTok’s First Year-End Music Report — variety.com 
 TikTok’s U.S. music lead talked with us about the platform’s first year-end music report — and gave us some previously unreleased details.

The mystery of Pavement’s biggest track on streaming services — musically.com 
 “Why is the obscure b-side ‘Harness Your Hopes’ Pavement’s top song on Spotify? It’s complicated,” runs the headline of a Stereogum article published this week. But the piece does a good job of laying out the likely reasons.

Spotify made huge investments in podcasts — here’s how it plans to make them pay off — www.cnbc.com 
 Podcast ad measurement has historically been seen as tricky, but Spotify is changing that with huge investments, acquisitions, and deals made in 2020.

Meek Mill, Lil Baby and others plan to launch music streaming service — rollingout.com 
 Meek Mill, Lil Baby, 21 Savage and Lil Durk plan to launch streaming service

Why Does Music Have such an Emotional Effect on Humans? — hackernoon.com 
 This Slack discussion by Richard, Austin, Arthur and Anna Bleker, and I occurred in Hacker Noon’s official #slogging-beta channel, and has been edited for readability.

All You Wanted for Christmas Is to Stream Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ — www.vulture.com 
 Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” reportedly breaks Spotify’s single-day streaming record with over 17 million streams.

Tesla Software Update Hints at Support for Apple Music — www.macrumors.com

Tesla may soon add support for Apple Music, according to references in a Tesla software update found by Twitter user @greentheonly.

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