Google announces YouTube Music changes; Google Play Music to stay (for now)
by On Thursday, Google announced some changes to its music services. Currently, Google’s music services are a bit confusing to explain. The changes, however, aren’t much …
Tag: streaming audio
Streaming made up two-thirds of US music revenue in 2017
Despite writing earlier this week about compact discs’ waning popularity, there’s some good news to report in the US music industry. The Record Industry Association …
What’s the future of compact discs?
Since their debut in 1982 (though they first went on sale in the United States in 1983), compact discs became the dominant format for music …
R&B and hip-hop are now the most popular overall music genres
Early this year, I wrote about how R&B and hip-hop became the most popular genre for streaming music, easily eclipsing rock music. It looks like …
Is the MP3 really dead? (The answer’s “no.”)
Recently, the popular MP3 audio format was declared “dead.” Or so claims the Fraunhofer Institute, the researchers who helped spearhead the development of the format, …
Streaming music is now the majority of US music industry revenue
Last year, I wrote about how streaming music made up the largest share of revenue for the US music industry. Now comes news that streaming …
R&B, hip-hop most popular streaming music genres
A Nielsen survey confirms what the recording industry itself stated almost a year ago. Nielsen reports in 2016, streaming music firmly overtook digital single and …
Amazon debuts its stand-alone music streaming service
This week, Amazon announced its own streaming music service, Amazon Music Unlimited. The service sees Amazon hoping to go up against Spotify and Apple Music. …
Audio streaming for first half of 2016 doubles from first half of 2015
Nielsen has released figures for music sales for the first half of 2016. Along with recent news on Spotify’s growth comes news that audio streaming …
Spotify has twice the paying customers of Apple Music
In an update on a post I wrote a few months ago, Spotify’s 30 million paying customers makes it the top streaming music service for …