What Should Label Playlist Strategies Be in 2020?; A New Standard That Makes Music Easier To Find

The streaming platforms continue to iterate playlist strategies and, at last, differentiate. But where are the game changers? How much more longevity do playlists have, now that podcasts and smart speakers are gaining traction?

The music industry is embracing a new standard called MEAD (Media Enrichment And Description) for communicating metadata--information about music that will make it easier to describe and find.

Spotify is benefitting from Snap’s desire to make Snapchat bigger in India, where it faces powerful competition in the form of TikTok. AR lenses is (for now) one area that differentiates Snapchat from that rival.

BluOS, the premium multi-room music management platform by Lenbrook International, just released version 3.6 of the BluOS system.

Deal covers the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Spain, and Italy.

Movie studios are launching their own streaming apps but record labels aren’t about to do the same.

Songs are getting snappier, with shorter intros and earlier choruses.

CD Baby has announced the hiring of two notable Indian music professionals to its rapidly expanding network of international representatives.

Farias was a panellist at the Music Week Tech Summit together with O2, where he celebrated the fact that “more and more independent artists are completely self-sustained”.

It’s clear that, by the numbers at least, the business of classical music has been in a heap of trouble for some time; what is less clear is why. Pundits from different corners of the arts world have no shortage of explanations or theories about what has most contributed to the genre’s decline in cultural relevancy.

Australian artist Toni Watson - aka Tones and I - is riding high with her track ‘Dance Monkey’, which started as a viral buzz track but has flowered into a bona-fide global hit.

Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine" has become the first music video from the '80s to join YouTube's billion views club.

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