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

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...

Amazon Will Spend $7 Billion This Year in Video and Music Content Alone

Daniel Sanchez

April 29, 2019

Can Amazon overtake rivals in both the streaming video and streaming music markets? In order to take on streaming video giant Netflix, Apple unveiled a $1 billion spending plan on original content. Unsurp... Read More...

Amazon Unveils Alexa Functionality with Ticketmaster

Amazon Unveils Ticketmaster Functionality in Alexa-Enabled Devices — Including Seat Selection

Daniel Sanchez

March 8, 2019

“Alexa, where are my Ticketmaster tickets?” Yesterday, Amazon unveiled a new feature – Song ID. Prime Music and Music Unlimited subscribers in the US can now easily identify a song’s title and artist. ... Read More...

Amazon Unveils Song ID, Telling Users What Song is Playing, But Only for US Echo Devices

Amazon Unveils Song ID, Telling Listeners What Song is Playing — Every Time

Daniel Sanchez

March 7, 2019

Amazon has made a brand-new innovative feature – Song ID – available for Prime Music/Unlimited subscribers. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Universal Music Group (UMG) CEO and Chairman Lucia... Read More...

What Streaming Music Services Pay (Updated for 2019)

How Much Artists Make Per Stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube, Pandora, More (Updated for 2022)

Daniel Sanchez

December 25, 2018

How much do artists make per stream? Reported per-stream payouts from top music streaming services (updated for 2021; click to enlarge) How much do artists make per stream on the most popular streaming music ... 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...

Music Industry Latest: Kendrick Lamar/SZA, eOne Music, CRTC, Childish Gambino, Apple Music, Pollstar, More...

Latest Industry: The Canadian Question, Kendrick Lamar/SZA, eOne Music, Childish Gambino, Pollstar, More…

Daniel Sanchez

June 1, 2018

Sean Stevenson, eOne Music's new EVP and General Manager, Music Should streaming music and online video services pay to fund domestic content? Broadcast regulator CRTC has considered new levies on Netflix an... Read More...

Music Industry Latest: Guitar Center, Live Nation, Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music, Amazon Alexa

Latest Industry: Live Nation, SoundCloud, Apple Music, Amazon Alexa, YouTube, Guitar Center

Daniel Sanchez

April 13, 2018

A neural network on what you love to listen to. Music Audience Exchange (MAX) has unveiled its Artist Matching Engine. The platform’s data model uses neural networks to map music tastes onto the demographic... Read More...

Latest Industry: Live Nation, Amazon, Ariana Grande, Sexual Harassment, Capitol Music

Latest Industry: MMA, Apple Music Worldwide, GEMA, Live Nation, Amazon, TickPick, Royalty Flow

Daniel Sanchez

April 11, 2018

MMA fastrack! Looks like the super-sized Music Modernization Act (MMA) is getting fast-tracked — big time. Just today, the consolidated music legislation received a unanimous 32-0 vote from the House Judici... 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...

Amazon Tickets UK Is Dead. Get Ready for Alexa-Powered Amazon Tickets In 2019!

Lennon Cihak

February 22, 2018

Amazon Tickets' UK window has been closed. But there's a much bigger bird in the oven. As of February 21, 2018, online e-commerce giant Amazon has closed up shop on its UK Amazon Tickets service. The news c... Read More...

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