US iPhone Owners’ Music Spending Grew by 22% Last Year
Mobile-analytics firm Sensor Tower is publishing a new report this week that quantifies app-spending in 2018 by iPhone owners in the US. The headline is that this spending increased by 36% year-on-year
How Pirated TV Shows On YouTube Made Dinosaur Jr. a Hit in Japan
Congratulations to Dinosaur Jr. for topping Japan’s video-streaming chart with nearly 8.1m weekly views for a 25-year-old song called ‘Over Your Shoulder’. Wait, what?! Yes, the definitely-not-at-all-J-Poppy grunge veterans suddenly
Childish Gambino Dances His Way Onto Google Pixel Smartphones
One of the points we’ve been making about augmented-reality (AR) technology over the past year is that the biggest impact for artists from it will come from campaigns using the
Ariana Grande Breaks Apple Music Day-One Streaming Records
After a very-public row with the organisers of the Grammys, it’s back to business as usual for Ariana Grande: breaking records on music-streaming services. Apple Music announced that Grande’s new
Article 13 Comes to the Boil Amid Final Negotiations
Friday was a bad day for the music industry in Europe, it’s fair to say, as a fissure emerged between label and publisher bodies on one side, and organisations representing
Spotify’s Music Boss Warns Artists Off Top Playlists Too Early
Spotify’s global head of music Nick Holmsten has given a pre-Grammys interview to The Hollywood Reporter. While the headlines are being made by his comments on Spotify’s hateful-conduct controversy last
Nas and Mass Appeal Team Up With LiveXLive To Create Original Urban-Focused Content
Live entertainment company LiveXLive has signed a deal with rapper Nas and music company Mass Appeal (which is home to Nas’ label) for ‘a 360 degree partnership’ to create, produce, and distribute Article 13 Disaster for Music Biz, Joy for YouTube, as Labels Call for EU Copyright Bill to be Cancelled
A group of organizations representing European creatives and rightsholders in the music, audio-visual, broadcasting and sports industries have called on European negotiators to cancel the Copyright Directive. In an open