Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Friday, 8 January 2021

Apple App Store customers spent over $540m on apps on New Year's Day 2021

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"[Apple] App Store customers [spent] $1.8 billion on digital goods and services over the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve,...
Tuesday, 5 January 2021

Over 10% of songs streamed around the world are by British artists

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 "A new analysis from record labels association the BPI reveals that 1 in every 10 songs (10.1%) streamed around the world is by a Brit...

176 songs received over 1 billion video views on TikTok in 2020

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"The growth of TikTok in 2020 produced some staggering numbers. Over 176 different songs surpassed 1 billion video views as TikTok soun...
Thursday, 21 May 2020

Spotify paid (reportedly) over $100m for Joe Rogan's podcast

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"Spotify signed an exclusive agreement with comedian Joe Rogan to carry his popular podcast on its audio streaming platform starting Se...
Tuesday, 17 March 2020

Streaming accounts for 80% of US recorded music revenues

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"US recorded music revenues grew by 13% year-on-year to $11.1 billion (£8.6bn) at retail value in 2019. It’s the fourth year in a row ...
Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Billie Eilish & Drake 'stream more than all 1980s music'

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"I don’t view it as problem solved. There’s been progress, but there’s a ways to go yet. If I were still at Interscope, here are the th...
Tuesday, 30 April 2019

Spotify has over 100m paying subscribers

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"More than 100 million users worldwide now pay for Spotify Premium, the company has announced. Spotify reached the milestone by growing...
Tuesday, 9 April 2019

Apple Music has more paid subscribers than Spotify in the US

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"Apple Music has reportedly surpassed Spotify in terms of paid subscribers in the US, holding around 2m more paying users. According to...
Tuesday, 5 March 2019

Music streaming revenues have overtaken physical sales in the UK

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"New digital services are turning the UK into a country of subscribers rather than entertainment buyers as music follows video and game...
Monday, 25 February 2019

Spotify spent nearly $340m to buy podcasting companies Gimlet and Anchor

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"Spotify  doubled down on podcasts last week with a double deal to buy podcast networks Gimlet and Anchor. Those acquisitions were init...
Friday, 22 February 2019

A campaign on Spotify increased visits to Baskin-Robbins by 12%

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"Baskin-Robbins saw a 12% lift in store visits — 4.3-times industry benchmarks — from an ad campaign on music streaming service Spotify...
Thursday, 7 February 2019

Songs are getting shorter - probably as a result of streaming

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"Popular music is shrinking. From 2013 to 2018, the average song on the Billboard Hot 100 fell from 3 minutes and 50 seconds to about 3...

Marshmello played a concert for 10m people in Fortnite

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"Yesterday (February 2), DJ star Marshmello played an exclusive in-game concert in Fornite at 2pm ET. Fortnite players could watch the ...
Thursday, 3 January 2019

Video games account for more than half of UK entertainment market

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"The video games sector now accounts for more than half of the UK's entire entertainment market, according to a new report. The in...
Monday, 6 August 2018

Music piracy has fallen in the UK

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"The number of Britons that are illegally downloading music is decreasing, according to new custom research from YouGov. YouGov’s Musi...
Monday, 26 February 2018

Musical.ly users generated more than 10m Winter Olympics interactions in first weekend

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"Musical.ly, the lip-synching video app with 60 million users, generated more than 10 million engagements during the first weekend of t...
Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Streaming accounts for more than half of UK music consumption

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"Streaming now accounts for over half of UK music consumption; 1.5bn weekly streams milestone The year’s strong growth in demand for r...
Friday, 5 January 2018

Spotify has 70m paying subscribers

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Hello 70 million subscribers 👏 — Spotify (@Spotify) January 4, 2018 Earlier - 60m in July 2017 Earlier -  50m in March 2017 Earlie...
Monday, 4 September 2017

Google & Facebook own 8 of the 10 most popular apps in the US

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Source:   June 2017 data from comScore, reported by Techcrunch, 25th August 2017
Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Spotify has 60m paying subscribers

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"Spotify’s singular focus on music sees it adding subscribers faster than the iPhone company with a streaming app on the side. Spotify ...