Why Can We Still Buy Music?; Neil Young’s New Streaming Service; iHeartMedia; Pandora Premium

Why Can We Still Buy Music? — medium.com 
 Why can we still buy music? One day we could be living in a world where music cannot be bought, only accessed. With one exception.

You’re happy, and they know it — www.1843magazine.com 
 Can an algorithm tell the difference between a happy song and a sad one? Spotify thinks so

Neil Young launches new streaming service XStream — www.nme.com 
 Neil Young has launched a new streaming service. It’s called XStream and follows on from his previous streaming service PONO.

iHeartMedia admits it could collapse this year under $20bn debt burden — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

One of the US music business’s most important media partners has admitted that it may go bust before the end of 2017.

Where YouTube fits into world of online music streaming — www.kamloopsthisweek.com 
 Radio Edit: Where YouTube fits into world of online music streaming — Kamloops This Week

Hello, Pandora Premium. Now, here’s how royalties are being paid for all three Pandora services. — medium.com 
 Key takeaway: Now, with the broad rollout of Pandora Premium, there are three tiers, three ways for artists and labels to connect with listeners and earn royalties, and a couple different ways…

Prince Without Permission — www.npr.org 
 His albums are back on Spotify. New releases full of unheard recordings are on the way. For a fan, there is joy and pain in knowing the work Prince guarded so tightly won’t stay that way for long.

Apple Funds New Program to Turn Young Artists Into Pop Stars — www.bloomberg.com 
 Apple Inc. is introducing a program to promote young musicians with a monthlong barrage of videos, playlists and new music, deepening the technology giant’s direct investment in artists through Apple Music.

Samsung Galaxy S8 Gets Google Play Music Promotion — variety.com 
 Samsung has teamed up with Google to bring music streaming to the S8 — which says a lot about Samsung’s changing priorities.

There’s A Compelling Reason To Upgrade To Premium Pandora — But You Won’t See It In The Ads — www.forbes.com 
 Streaming music service, Pandora, recently launched a robust advertising campaign pushing the upgrade to Pandora Premium. Problem is, while there is a compelling reason to do so, you won’t see it in the ads.

Paid music streaming services thrive in Korea — m.koreatimes.co.kr

Korea has increasingly embraced paid streaming services as the main source of music content compared to other countries, according to the International Federation of Phonographic Industry.