The Beginning Of The End For Free Music Streaming? AI + Streaming

Are We Witnessing The Beginning Of The End For Free Music Streaming? — www.npr.org 
 Spotify has long evangelized free listening as a way to pull users in to paying for its service. The music industry’s patience with the strategy seems to have run out.

Streaming Music Now Dominates the Music Industry, and AI is a Key Growth Driver — 1reddrop.com 
 According to data from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), streaming music now contributes the majority of the music industry’s revenues.

UMG’s Deal With Spotify: How Grainge and Ek (Finally) Got It Done — www.billboard.com 
 During the last two years, Spotify and Universal Music Group’s negotiations for a long-term licensing agreement gradually turned into media-business brinkmanship.

The Future of Smart Contracts in the Music Industry — www.linkedin.com 
 What if we could replace antiquated physical contracts execution to fit with the new digital music age and real-time commerce? Well, today we can, and the technology is known as smart contracts.

Proposal would let labels pull music off radio — www.tennessean.com 
 Record labels would be able to yank their music off U.S. radio airwaves under federal legislation introduced on Wednesday.

Music streaming has killed the 80s ballad — www.dailymail.co.uk 
 Instrumental intros that averaged more than 20 seconds in the mid-80s are now only around five seconds long, a study from Ohio State University found.

Chance the Rapper was right: Streaming now makes up half of all U.S. music revenue — www.washingtonpost.com 
 Money from services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Pandora now make up almost 52 percent of industry revenue, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

On Digital Music in 2017 — medium.com 
 While I left digital music on a full time basis in 2004, I’ve been keeping tabs via investments and other means. The recent Gizmodo article stack ranking the viability of various streaming services…

Music Streaming Is Making Songs Faster as Artists Compete for Attention — www.seeker.com 
 Compared to songs from the mid-1980s, the tempo of music today is faster and instrumental introductions are shorter, according to a new study….

How Virtual Reality Could Reshape the Future of Concerts and Live Events — www.linkedin.com

The allure of attending a live concert has always been the fact that you can get up close and personal with the band and their music. You are a fan, and that immersive live-music experience far overshadows listening to digital download or album from your favorite artist.