#MusicStreaming
(Hypebot) — Sonos is launching Sonos Radio, a free, ad-supported streaming radio service, exclusively available to its 10 million customers. The new service ...
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Spotify To Expand Paid Artists Services, But Can Most Musicians Afford Them?
(Hypebot) — Spotify is pleased with the early adoption of its first paid artist marketing tool Marquee and will soon add more paid ...
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YouTube Music Has 20M Subscribers, $15B Annual Revenue
(Hypebot) — YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Premium now have a combined 20 million subscribers, Google revealed in an earnings call. YouTube Music ...
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IMPALA To Oppose UMG’s Sale To Tencent
BRUSSELS, Belgium (CelebrityAccess) — IMPALA, the trade association for independent music labels, announced that it plans to oppose Tencent’s plan to acquire a ...
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Spotify Finally Turns A Profit
(CelebrityAccess) — A company which has long struggled with its bottom line, Spotify recently announced that it had not only turned a profit ...
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Amazon Music Expands Its Ad-Support Tier
SEATTLE, WA (CelebrityAccess) — E-Commerce giant Amazon announced it is seeking to expand its music streaming service by making its ad-supported tier free ...
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Chinese Antitrust Regulators To Probe Tencent’s Deals With Major Labels
(Hypebot) — The deals that Tencent Music Entertainment has with record labels are under investigation by the State Administration for Market Regulation, China’s ...
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4 Ways Artists, Labels Manipulate Spotify, Apple Streams and How It Hurts Everyone
(Hypebot) — Music streaming manipulation – artificially boosting stream counts to improve chart positioning, increase market share and royalty payments, or for other ...
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