The Right Price for Super Premium; Why Rock Workout Music is Winning in 2025
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We pinpointed the right price for Super Premium. Here is how
There is broad consensus across the music industry that it is time to introduce new tiers for streaming, including one with extra benefits that is often nicknamed “Super Premium”, or “Supremium” for short. But putting this into practice gets complicated pretty quickly.
Power Chords, Power Moves: Why Rock Workout Music is Winning in 2025
After years of pop and hip-hop dominating gym soundtracks, guitar-driven anthems surged back into the spotlight, proving that rock’s raw energy is the perfect match for intense training sessions.
Warner Music Group is readying its superfan app – with help from Ed Sheeran
Sheeran is now "actively posting" on the platform, according to the WSJ interview with Atlantic Records CEO Elliot Grainge.
Spotify Launches ‘Turn Up Aus’ to Champion Australian Music
Billed as the next evolution of Spotify’s music DNA, Turn Up Aus is a long-term program designed to make Australian music “unmissable, undeniable, and inarguable.”
beatBread CEO Peter Sinclair on getting more options, insight and choices in music funding
In the latest episode of the Music Ally Focus podcast, we speak to beatBread CEO Peter Sinclair – on getting more options, insight and choices in music funding, and how independent artists, labels and songwriters are getting better deals while retaining ownership of their music using beatBread’s game changing deal comparison tool.
Caldecott Music Group Partners with ISNI to Tackle Creator Attribution in the AI Era
Generative AI is reshaping how creative works are made and by whom, so tracking authorship is becoming harder and more urgent. Caldecott Music Group, the Singapore-based parent company of BandLab, ReverbNation, NME, Cakewalk, and more, is responding by linking up with the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) system to bring creator identity out of the shadows and into sharper focus.
SoundCloud launches subscription plans in Mexico for first time
Mexico is one of the most exciting countries for recorded music in the world right now, having broken into the top 10 markets tracked by global body the IFPI for the first time in 2024.
Seeker Music strikes catalogue deal with Joan Jett
The deal includes the acquisition of a substantial share of publishing and recorded music rights for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee.
Amazon Music to sponsor Music Week Awards 2025
The hugely popular ceremony will return on May 8, 2025 at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House London.
Today’s HD Radio Installations Are Far Simpler
We talk with iHeartMedia’s Greg Savoldi about how the process has changed.
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