Streaming Services Rewire India’s Local Music Industry; U.S.,

India Beyond Bollywood: How YouTube & Other Streaming Services Are Rewiring the Local Music Industry — www.billboard.com

India Beyond Bollywood: How YouTube & Other Streaming Services Are Rewiring the Local Music Industry — www.billboard.com

If you’ve been following music-tech news this year, the recent influx of investment and M&A activity in the Indian music streaming market might have caught your eye.

U.S. and U.K. Music Charts Both Favor Paid Streaming Now — www.rollingstone.com 
 Britain changes the rules of its music charts after Billboard does the same in America

Spotify could be more popular than Instagram; here’s why it is not — medium.com 
 If the first thing that comes to your mind when reading this title is “you can’t compare apples and oranges”, watch me. In this basket full of oranges, apples and some exotic Chinese fruits, Facebook…

LiveXLive Media’s Slacker Radio Launches Amazon Alexa ‘Skill’ For Voice-Enabled Music Streaming — platformandstream.wordpress.com

LiveXLive Media announced today that Slacker Radio has launched a “Skill” allowing the service to be integrated with Amazon Alexa.

Barclays: Spotify is reinventing how music is sold — www.cnbc.com 
 Spotify is likely to ramp up advertising as it seeks new ways to make money on music, Barclays said.

From Bach to Rock: How Music Preferences Predict Behavior — knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu 
 New Wharton research explores the links between music and personality.

Off The Blockchain — blog.songtrust.com 
 Blockchain technology — it’s everywhere, talked about at every tech conference and panel session. Is it all it’s chalked up to be, at least for the music industry? Our Head of Data Strategy breaks down why we shouldn’t be focused on blockchain, but on the consistency of data to change the music industry.

Prince Estate Strikes Deal With Sony Music for 35 Catalog Albums — variety.com 
 As Variety reported exclusively earlier this month, Prince’s estate and Sony Music Entertainment have inked an exclusive distribution agreement. The deal, officially announced today, includes 35 previously released album titles from the artist’s catalog — several of which are among the best-se…

Spotify generated $40m+ in ticket sales last year. Now, it’s accelerating its presence in live music. — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

‘Fans First’, if you didn’t know, is the brand representing Spotify’s data-mining work for/with artist partners — the result of which is to ensure that an acts’ biggest fans are granted early access to goodies, including tickets to intimate shows, via email alerts.

Apple could bundle streaming video with a subscription to magazines, music, and iCloud storage — www.theverge.com 
 Evidence is growing that Apple plans a subscription service to compete with the likes of Amazon, Netflix, and others. Apple’s would differ by offering original video programming, with music, news, magazines, and even iCloud storage.