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Streaming dominates the music industry’s revenue — www.engadget.com

Streaming dominates the music industry’s revenue — www.engadget.com

The music industry is on the upswing, and the RIAA has services like Spotify and Apple Music to thank.

Amazon Music’s New R&B Discovery Playlist Launches With Ari Lennox ‘Walk on By’ Cover — www.billboard.com

Amazon Music launches R&B Rotation, a brand-new global playlist designed to highlight the best new R&B tracks each week.

Spotify, YouTube, Amazon look to oldies for new music streaming subscribers — www.foxbusiness.com 
 Music streaming services are looking to older music to draw in new subscribers, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.

Streaming Growth, Vinyl’s Victory & More: Four Takeaways From the RIAA’s 2019 Mid-Year Report — www.billboard.com 
 The U.S. recorded music industry is still seeing strong double-digit growth, up 18% over the first six months of 2019, according to the RIAA’s mid-year report published Thursday. Here are four big takeaways.

Apple Music launches on the web — www.theverge.com

Apple Music is getting a big expansion with a new web interface that will let subscribers stream music directly from a browser without having to install iTunes or a separate Apple Music app.

Latin Artists Took Over Spotify’s Most-Streamed Songs of the Summer Around The World — www.forbes.com 
 Artists like Bad Bunny, Camila Cabello, Daddy Yankee, Tainy, Sech and more took over Spotify’s most-streamed global songs of the summer playlist.

Alibaba buys stake in NetEase Cloud Music in $700m deal — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

In a separate deal, Alibaba has also acquired NetEase’s import e-commerce platform Kaola for approximately $2 billion.

Apple Music releases Up Next Live EPs following summer concert series at Apple Stores — 9to5mac.com

Over the summer, Apple held a series of Up Next Live concerts at Apple Stores around the world.

Sony Unveils $900 Touchscreen Walkman — www.billboard.com 
 Sony has unveiled a new version of its iconic Walkman — but don’t dust off the old CDs just yet.

My Spotify was hacked — but at least I got to hear some new music — www.theguardian.com

Chance has often delivered my greatest pleasures.

100,000 people watched MelodyVR’s GMA Summer Concerts stream — musically.com 
 Music virtual-reality startup MelodyVR recently broadcast one of US TV show Good Morning America’s ‘Summer Concert Series’ gigs.

Spotify Hires Former CBS News Head David Rhodes as Part of Broader Podcasting Push — www.billboard.com 
 Spotify has tapped former CBS News president David Rhodes as a consultant to assist its broader push into news programming, sources have confirmed to Billboard.

Roku’s new Smart Soundbar is also a 4K streaming box — www.androidpolice.com 
 We all thought the JBL Link Bar was a clever product when it was announced, but it took more than a year for the Android TV-equipped soundbar to come out.

Spotify is bringing back its Android home screen widget — www.theverge.com

Spotify says it’s bringing back a popular Android home screen widget it had previously phased out.

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