On October 7th, 2008, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon launched their own music streaming platform, to create a legal, better alternative to piracy: Spotify. Ten years later, the largest music-streaming service in the world have…
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How Apple Revolutionized Music ? iPod 17th Anniversary
On October 23rd, 2001, or 17 years before, Steve Jobs and Apple announced the launching of the iPod, about ?8 1?2 months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released. The portable media player revolutionized…
SoundCloud’s New Partners (Native Instruments, Serato..)
SoundCloud will makes DJ’s lives easier. The world’s largest open audio platform announced these days in their newsroom partnerships with six DJ software companies : Native Instruments, Serato, Virtual DJ, DEX3, Mixvibes and Hercules. The…
Spotify For Artists Announces Partnership With DistroKid
Spotify announced this wednesday on their newsroom the partnership with digital distributor DistroKid to help artists to seamlessly distribute their music to other platforms in the latest Spotify for Artists feature, revealed last month. DistroKid…
Napkey Release Party At “Les Trois Baudets” In Paris
Three days before Solstice and their Apple Live Performance, Napkey’s album Release party will take place in Paris, on October 16, at the major Parisian venue Les Trois Baudets. Who’s going ? Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2078846942381231/
Spotify Integrates With Google Maps
More and more, people are streaming their music from Spotify while on the go, that means they’re using their mobile devices for both music and navigation. Starting October 1, following Waze in 2017, millions of…
Spotify Adding Personalized Songs To Curated Playlists
According to the new Billboard report, Spotify just began testing adding personalized song selections to its curated playlists. This new program will work with algorithmic song selections, similarly to Discover Weekly or Release Radar playlists,…
Apple Acquires Shazam And Removes Ads
Apple today announced it has finalized its acquisition of Shazam, the song-recognition app, for an estimated $400 million, according to Recode. The application can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows, based on a short…
Artists Can Now Upload Their Tracks On Spotify For Free
After their deals with Artists and Managers, Spotify strikes again in launching a new beta feature, that will allow independent artists to upload tracks to the service directly and without any label or digital aggregator….
Spotify And Direct Deals With Artists & Managers
According to Billboard.com, Spotify has been offering to pay a number of managers and indie acts in exchange for licensing their music directly to the streaming services. The report reveals that some artist/management firms received…