Google announces YouTube Music changes; Google Play Music to stay (for now)
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …