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Amazon's Unique Audio Ads Beta Test for Its Freemium Music Service Fails to Impress Major Brands

Amazon’s Audio Ads Beta Test for Its Freemium Music Service Fails to Impress Brands

July 25, 2019

Earlier this year, Amazon quietly launched an ad-supported tier of its own music streaming platform. The service remains available to users in the U.S. who have an Alexa-enabled device. Prior to the surpr... Read More...

Amazon Music Unlimited and Prime Music Have a Combined 32 Million Subscribers — And a 70% Yearly Growth Rate

Daniel Sanchez

July 11, 2019

Several weeks ago, Apple Music casually announced that it had reached 60 million subscribers. This milestone comes after just four years on the market and includes paying and trial users. After nearly eleve... Read More...

Amazon Music Will Now Come to Comcast Xfinity X1 Set-Top Boxes

Daniel Sanchez

June 21, 2019

Amazon Music has scored its first major cable TV deal. The e-commerce company’s music service has confirmed Comcast will launch its music streaming service on high-end Xfinity X1 set-top boxes. This marks i... Read More...

Taylor Swift’s ‘Me!’ Shatters Multiple Records on YouTube Music and Amazon

Daniel Sanchez

April 29, 2019

Taylor Swift has made history anew. The 29-year-old pop singer’s recent music video, ‘Me!,’ broke several records across multiple platforms. The music video, which features Panic at the Disco’s Brendon Ur... Read More...

Amazon Music’s ‘Reimagined’ Exclusives Roll On — This Time With Mumford & Sons

Daniel Sanchez

February 18, 2019

Amazon continues to roll out ‘exclusives,’ a strategy the music industry clearly despises. But maybe this twist gets a pass. Following the launch of the fledgling streaming music service, former Global Head... Read More...

Music Industry Latest - Martin Garrix, The RIAA, Amazon Music Brazil, Danny Wimmer Presents, LiveXLive Media, More...

Latest Industry: Martin Garrix, RIAA v. Citigroup, Amazon Music Brazil, Danny Wimmer, LiveXLive, More…

Daniel Sanchez

August 13, 2018

Martin Garrix launches an Apple Music mix featuring music from his label. Dutch DJ and producer Martin Garrix has released the STMPD RCRDS mix on Apple Music featuring music from his label. In an intervie... Read More...

Music Industry Latest - Metallica, TIDAL, Spotify, Jimmy Wopo, Sigrid, Viagogo, Lauryn Hill, peermusic, More...

Latest Industry: Festival Harassment, Jimmy Wopo, Fyre Festival, Vkontakte, Jay-Z+Puma, More…

Daniel Sanchez

June 19, 2018

Nearly half of all female festivalgoers are sexually harassed. According to a new study from YouGov, nearly half of all female festivalgoers faced unwanted sexual behavior at events. Surveying 1,188 male an... Read More...

We Asked a Search Analytics Company to Tell Us the Most Popular Music Services

Daniel Sanchez

June 11, 2018

What are people really looking for? Spotify gets the most attention — and paying subscribers. But if search analytics can predict the future, YouTube, Amazon, and Apple are just getting started. YouTube Mus... Read More...

Latest Industry: Amazon Music, Disney, Fan Fair Alliance, Live Nation, PRS, Beatport, UTA, More…

Daniel Sanchez

May 25, 2018

Emma Banks will receive the 2018 Music Industry Trusts Award. The 2018 Music Industry Trust Awards will honor Creative Arts Agency London executive Emma Banks for her 25+ years in the music industry. Banks’... Read More...

Latest Industry: Amazon Music, Blockchain, Viacom, Sony, BMG, Pay Gaps, Alexa

Latest Industry: Blockchain, Amazon Music, Alexa, Viacom, Sony, BMG, Pay Gaps

Daniel Sanchez

April 4, 2018

Fighting for the CLASSICS. 89 artists have added their names to a petition urging Congress to pass the CLASSICS Act. If passed, the bipartisan legislation would require digital services to pay both rights... Read More...

Warning: Amazon's Music Storage Service Will Delete All of Your MP3s on April 30th

Fair Warning: Amazon Music Will Delete All of Your MP3s on April 30th

Daniel Sanchez

March 30, 2018

A friendly reminder: unless you download and save all of your Amazon-stored MP3s, you can bid them farewell – for good. Underscoring the death of MP3 downloads, Amazon Music quietly scrapped MP3 imports seve... Read More...

Underscoring Death of the Medium, Amazon Music Pulls Support for MP3s

Watching a Format Die: Amazon Music Pulls Support for MP3 Imports

Daniel Sanchez

December 21, 2017

While you can still purchase MP3s from Amazon, the e-commerce giant has started slowly backing away from the format. This year, revenue from streaming music platforms has pushed all three major labels’ finan... Read More...

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