Tidal, Sonos Launch New Series; Universal’s Streaming Revenues Smash Past $2bn

TIDAL and Sonos Launch “Sound Tracks” Series, Deliver Direct Control — platformandstream.com 
 TIDAL, along with leading home sound system, Sonos, today launched “Sound Tracks,” an original interview series filmed in the Sonos Store in New York.

Pay-per-Beat: Inside the Underground Economy Shaping Soundcloud Rap — noisey.vice.com 
 As beat leasing becomes a common practice, artists gain independence, but what is lost?

Universal’s streaming revenues will smash past $2bn this year — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

Those streaming milestones just keep on getting destroyed, don’t they? Universal Music Group’s recorded music streaming revenues are dead cert to blast through the $2bn barrier in the calendar year of 2017.

Law firm plotting class action over Guvera financing — www.completemusicupdate.com

An Australian law firm has confirmed it is investigating the possibility of launching a class action lawsuit in relation to failed streaming service Guvera, with private equity outfit AMMA and a number of accountancy firms it had relations with the likely defendants.

Spotify Maintains Faith in Post-Brexit U.K. With New Office — www.bloomberg.com 
 Music streaming service Spotify Ltd is moving to a new London office in order to double its workforce over the next two years, focusing on roles including engineering, data and machine learning.

The average person spends about $15 on streaming music all year — www.digitaltrends.com 
 According to a recent Nielsen Music study, the average person only spends $156 a year on music, with a fraction for streaming music.

Maroon 5’s Social Video Success Came by Moving From Musical.ly to White-Label Solution Vivoom — www.billboard.com 
 Maroon 5 is one of several A-list bands to incorporate fan-generated video into its social media strategy, most recently for its Billboard 200 №2-charting album Red Pill Blues.

MusicBee for Windows 10 is an almost-perfect music app — www.windowscentral.com 
 MusicBee for Windows 10 is a feature-filled and highly customizable music playing app that’s close to perfect.

ECM releases its music to Spotify and other streaming services — www.jsonline.com 
 Tired of pirates and illegal online sharing, ECM is releasing its music to Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services

Mixcloud Rethinks Online Radio For Listeners, Curators and Musicians — www.hypebot.com 
 Nico Perez, co-founder of Mixcloud, joins co-hosts Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on this week’s Hypebot Music Biz Weekly podcast.

Bob Seger: Exclusive stream of new songs from ‘I Knew You When’ album — www.freep.com

Hear a pair of songs from Seger’s upcoming album in this exclusive streaming debut, along with two Seger classics.