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 of streaming. The Record Industry Association of America has just…
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 back up with the heavy hitters. The music streaming platform…
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 charts. “As the way Australian fans listen to their favourite…
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 of YouTube Music. With their new and improved streaming service,…
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 is it still a thing, but next year, Tidal will…
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 from the IFPI’s 2017 Global Music Report. The IFPI reckon…
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 10.5 per cent increase ($391 million) over 12 months. The…
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 system has finally arrived. ‘Windowing’ is essentially the process of…
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 out on top over digital. Even better news is that…
Features Magazine News Success and Apocalypse in The Music Industry: Moving the Goalposts by Alastair Cairns In an age where the music industry is characterised as a scattered landscape of disintegrating relics and the arthritic hands that once built them, it may be worthwhile to examine…
News Examining the music question nobody can answer: how many streams equal a sale? by Happy Recently the UK-based office of the Official Charts Company (OCC) decreed that they were bringing together streaming and traditional album sales for the first time, inducting artists like Justin Bieber…
News Neil Young plans to release an online archive housing all music he has ever made by Freya McGahey The life of Neil Young has been something quite spectacular. His music has been considered definitive of an iconic period in cultural history, his relationships with Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne…
News Cop that, iTunes: streaming is officially making more moolah than digital downloads ever did by Happy According to new data from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the annual income of streaming services has surpassed the peak annual revenue from digital music retail at the height…
