What is Happening to Streaming’s Superstars?; The Artists Using AI to Dream Up the Future of Music
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What is Happening to Streaming’s Superstars? — www.rollingstone.com
New analyses reveal a surprising truth: Over the past three years, the world’s biggest artists have seen their market share of total streams — and therefore total money distributed by the likes of Spotify — decline significantly. Why?
TikTok Proved It Can Make Hits. Its Next Test Is Creating Stars — www.rollingstone.com
Major labels are moving quickly to sign artists with songs that perform well on the app TikTok, betting that their popularity will transfer to other platforms.
The Artists Using Artificial Intelligence to Dream Up the Future of Music — www.spin.com
Can an A.I. and human, working together as peers, create something genuinely new?
Music Is YouTube’s Most Profitable Category, ‘Crucial’ to Bottom Line: Study — www.billboard.com
Music videos generate the highest return-on-investment for YouTube despite making up a relatively small percentage of all videos uploaded, according to a new analysis by the global video and music search engine and analytics platform Pex.
What’s Really Going On With Apple’s iTunes Shutdown? — www.billboard.com
Despite the doom and gloom around the demise of iTunes, all of the features that currently exist in iTunes will still be around on macOS Catalina — it just may take a few more clicks to find them all.
Janelle Monáe & More Artists Curate “Black Pride” Playlists For Apple Music — allhiphop.com
Victoria Monét, Blood Orange, and Taylor Bennett also share songs that make them feel proud about their identity.
Smule Reaches Out To Opera Lovers & Lets You Sing Alongside Pavarotti — operawire.com
Ever dream of singing alongside Luciano Pavarotti? For many aspiring young singers that would be a dream come true, one that in a literal sense would not be possible. But technology has a knack for…
China’s Boomplay beat Spotify and Apple to corner Africa’s streaming market — www.cnn.com
When Chinese music streaming company Transsnet wanted to break into the lucrative African market, they partnered with parent company, Transsion holdings, the makers of popular phone brands such as Infinix and TECNO to pre-install their Boomplay app on their handsets.
Music streaming in 2019: radio rivalry, Spotify and ‘west versus east’ — musically.com
Streaming was the big driver behind the recorded-music industry’s 9.7% growth in 2018, according to the IFPI. In fact, streaming revenues grew by 34%.
Decoding Beethoven’s music style using data science — www.sciencedaily.com
What makes Beethoven sound like Beethoven? Researchers have completed a first analysis of Beethoven’s writing style, applying statistical techniques to unlock recurring patterns.
Streaming allows you to listen to music in a whole new way — beaconseniornews.com
Over the past 15 years, the process of listening to and acquiring music has completely changed.
8 ways to play Spotify music in your car — no matter how old it is — www.gearbrain.com
From integrated apps, to CarPlay, USB, Bluetooth and the FM radio, here are eight ways to bring Spotify streaming to your car, no matter what age it is.
MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC: all the audio file formats explained — www.whathifi.com
What’s an audio file format? Which music file formats are hi-res? And which is the best audio file format? Read on.
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