Streaming Drives U.S. Music Sales Up 11% in 2016; Podcasts; Pandora; Spotify

Streaming Music Now More Than Half of All U.S. Music Industry Revenue — variety.com 
 Digital downloads on the other hand continue to bring in less money.

Streaming subscription revenue rises 133% in Australia to top $80m — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com 
 The wholesale value of Australia’s recorded music market has risen for a second consecutive year as the growth in income generated from ad-funded streaming dramatically slows.

Podcasts Are Hugely Popular Right Now. Why? — newrepublic.com 
 Can podcasts tell us more than stories of individual obsession?

Pandora is in trouble, and Big Music is surprisingly sad about that — www.recode.net 
 The labels used to loathe the streaming music service. Now they love it. It may be too late.

Blink-182 And Apple Music Team Up To Show Off Increasing Reach And Power Of Beats 1 — www.forbes.com 
 Similarly to MTV in the ’80s, Apple Music’s Beats 1 is increasingly becoming the place for the biggest names in music, like Blink-182, to share and promote new music. Here is how they’ve done it.

Spotify Rolls Out New Metrics To Better Define And Target Users — www.beet.tv

If you think of music choices as a mirror as opposed to a filter, you can learn a lot about listeners. And you can serve them tailored ads as they “declare” key moments throughout a typical day.

LiveXLive Partners with Media 122 on Programmatic Advertising, Monetization Strategy — medium.com 
 LiveXLive has partnered with Media122, a premium digital media company and Google Preferred Network to create programmatic revenue opportunities around LiveXLive’s streaming live music events and…

TuneIn Celebrates MLB Opening Day with Coverage Marathon — platformandstream.com

Celebrating the start of the MLB season, TuneIn offers wall-to-wall coverage of all 12 Opening Day matchups to TuneIn Premium subscribers — giving baseball fans from around the world the ability to listen to the radio play-by-play call of their favorite team, wherever they are.

Music Discover Platform TuneGo Launches A Record Label — www.hypebot.com 
 TuneGO, a music discovery platform aimed at working musicians and industry professionals announced that they are launching their own record label aimed at helping to break artists.

Pandora CEO, Pressured to Sell, Gets Last Chance to Beat Spotify — www.bloomberg.com 
 Pandora Media Inc. co-founder Tim Westergren took over for his second run as chief executive officer in March 2016 to revive the online radio company and avert a potential sale. A year in, he’s about to take his best shot at proving Pandora can survive on its own.

7 Indie Labels On How Technology Has Changed Their World — pitchfork.com

By the time Other Music closed last June, it had become more than a record store — it was a creative hub for independent music in New York City.