The Rise of the Hyper-Specific Spotify Playlist; Is Music Streaming Growth Slowing Down?
#1633 | Your Daily Dose of Music Streaming News
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⭐️ The rise of the hyper-specific Spotify playlist
Search is becoming more specific than general.
⭐️ Is music streaming growth slowing down?
It is a perfect storm, according to top industry analyst Mark Mulligan of MIDiA, with the volume of disruptive trends is accelerating at the same time that the Western music streaming market is beginning to slow.
⭐️ Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it
Called MusicLM, Google’s certainly isn’t the first generative AI system for song. There have been other attempts, including Riffusion, an AI that composes music by visualizing it, as well as Dance Diffusion, Google’s own AudioML and OpenAI’s Jukebox. But owing to technical limitations and limited training data, none have been able to produce songs particularly complex in composition or high-fidelity.
⭐️ The Latest Last Of Us Has Linda Ronstadt Running Up Those Charts
Much like Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" on Stranger Things, Linda Ronstadt's "Long, Long Time" is getting a TV boost.
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Expiring Licenses Ensure That Music Streaming Will Never Be The Future
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