For the third year in a row, the U.S. recorded music business in 2018 was graced with double-digit growth mainly due to the boom of subscription music streaming, according to numbers released Thursday by the Recording Industry Association of America. The annual report, which tracks sales across digital and physical …
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The strong festival culture of New South Wales, Australia is lauded by many music fans; lawmakers, though, see it as a danger. Following a string of deaths at local music festivals, several of which involved young people and have been attributed to drug overdoses, the government announced new rules requiring …
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When Spotify went public last year, its biggest hurdle was convincing investors that its free tier — supported by advertisements, delivering music to millions at no cost and draining heaps of money from the Swedish music-streaming service — was crucial to its business. Free users, Spotify said to both Wall …
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Mega-media platform YouTube is no longer content being just a place for music fans to watch and listen. On Thursday, the service debuted an integration with ticketing company Eventbrite that encourages YouTube users to buy concert tickets directly from music video pages — which, combined with a similar deal it …
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Facing ever-tightening competition, Apple Music has picked up the pace in the last few months. After growing to 50 million subscribers, launching amusic-publishing divisionandhosting a number of exclusive concerts and documentaries on the content side, the music-streaming service is now working on bolstering its offerings in one key area: data. …
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