News Spotify’s ‘pre-save’ function may be putting your privacy at risk by Raghav Iyer To “pre-save” an upcoming release on Spotify may be to put your privacy in grave peril. Pre saving music involves…
News Here’s how much a ‘platinum’ song makes artists on different streaming services by Raghav Iyer Streaming services. This is a domain where the competing interests of artist recognition and listener retention are significant. The key…
News Heavy metal wins 2018’s “most improved” award, growing faster than any other genre by Rianna Manuel A new report from music distribution company TuneCore has revealed that heavy metal popularity grew massively in 2018. In fact, it…
News Here’s where you can stream Coachella live this weekend by Rianna Manuel Ahhhh Coachella. Arguably the biggest and most notable music festival in the world. Coachella is the feather in the cap…
News Where did most of the music industry’s revenue come from in 2018? by Jessie Wilson Gone are the days of dodgy pirate versions of Swifty and the trojan war on computers thanks to the rise…
News New SoundCloud feature lets artists distribute to other major streaming platforms by Rianna Manuel SoundCloud has been steadily clawing its way back from the dead, and this new feature is helping the company get…
News ARIA Charts to give paid subscriptions more weight over free streams by Lara Smetannikov ARIA have announced changes to their streaming policies, which will see more weight given to paid subscriptions in their official…
News Youtube share details of their new music streaming service, set to launch this week by Bill Robinson In their latest bid to crack into the music streaming market, YouTube have shared details of their new, revamped version…
News JAY-Z is assembling an album of unreleased Prince music to be released on Tidal next year by Bill Robinson So the first thing you’re probably thinking is: “Hold on… Tidal’s still a thing?” Yes, yes it. And not only…
News More music gets played on YouTube than all other streaming services combined by Bill Robinson More music is played on YouTube than Spotify, Apple Music, and all other streaming platforms combined, according to new stats…
News The Australian music industry is growing faster that it has since 1996 by Bill Robinson ARIA today announced that the Australian recorded music industry has charted its fastest growth in over 20 years, with a…
News Fancy hearing albums two weeks early? Spotify’s new ‘Windowing’ system has landed by Bill Robinson A year after Universal Music announced a new deal with Spotify to ‘Window’ music from major artists, it appears that…
News Vinyl Vinyl does it better: physical album sales beat digital once again by Stanley Widdison According to the 2017 report by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) physical album sales have once again come…