What’s Next in Digital Music; Is Tech’s Future Music’s Past?
What’s Next in Digital Music: More Streaming (But Not Live Gigs), Fewer Downloads — www.scmp.com
Music executives discuss fan likes and dislikes (such as single-platform releases, Beyoncé), the power of radio, Spotify and social media influencers, and why most musicians can’t make a living now no one pays for music.
Study: Music Streaming Failing to Threaten Aussie Radio Industry — www.bandt.com.au
The first major comprehensive study of Australians’ audio consumption has found that the entry of global players such as Pandora, Spotify and Apple Music have failed to dent radio’s dominance of the audio landscape.
Shazam’s CEO Talks 1 Billion App Downloads And The Future Of The Brand — www.forbes.com
Shazam CEO Rich Riley talks hitting one billion app downloads, finally turning a profit and the future of the brand.
Is Tech’s Future Music’s Past? Why Silicon Valley Is Looking to Music Execs — www.billboard.com
Dozens of executives, most recently Lyor Cohen and Troy Carter, are following Jimmy Iovine to Silicon Valley. But are music machers the best candidates to bridge the two cultures?
Radio industry launches streaming app with 250 stations — www.smh.com.au
Australia’s radio industry has joined forces to launch an app with 250 stations from commercial and public networks.
Apple’s Jimmy Iovine Admits They Did Too Much With Apple Music — fortune.com
Apple’s Jimmy Iovine acknowledged in a recent interview that it tried to do too much with Apple Music and is now trying to get it right.
Spotify and Apple Music get unofficial mixes, the best part of SoundCloud — techcrunch.com
SoundCloud’s big differentiator is its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don’t release and that isn’t on Spotify or Apple..
Spotify can now be integrated into your Google Home — androidcommunity.com
The brand new Google Home is just the latest in the tech giant’s attempt to take over our lives. The smart home device is decorative and pretty useful around
The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good — qz.com
This morning, just like every Monday morning, 75 million Spotify users received a great new mixtape: 30 songs that feel like a gift from a music-loving friend, who might once have made a cassette tape with your name scrawled across the front. But these playlists, from Spotify’s Discover Weekly service, were cooked up by an algorithm.