YouTube says YouTube Music and YouTube Premium now have 125M+ subscribers globally, including trials, after passing 100M subscribers in February 2024
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ByteDance asks SCOTUS to block the US law that could ban TikTok on January 19; when asked about the law, Trump says he has a “warm spot” in his heart for TikTok
Small business owners love TikTok for marketing and sales. Stella Martorana / Research Live : TikTok appeals to supreme court against US ban Fox Business : TikTok calls on Supreme Court to issue emerg...
Apple launches Apple Music Replay, letting users review their 2023 history like top songs and artists, but the feature is still no match for Spotify Wrapped
and it's still not as good Steve Vegvari / iPhone in Canada Blog : Apple Music Replay 2023 Is Now Available Tsveta Ermenkova / PhoneArena : Apple Music Replay 2023: Your year in music is here Adamya S...
Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO sue Anthropic for allegedly violating their copyrights by using song lyrics to train AI models
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The National Music Publishers Association: in February 2023, Spotify had 44.4M US subscribers, Apple Music had 32.6M, Amazon Music had 29.3M, YouTube had 8.5M
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Google agrees to keep Bandcamp in the Play Store even if it doesn't adopt Google's in-app payment system; Epic will keep 10% of Bandcamp's IAP revenue in escrow
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Spotify says it is testing a new service that lets artists and labels promote their tracks in users' recommendations while receiving a lower royalty rate
and get paid less in exchange Josiah Motley / KnowTechie : Spotify will now promote select tracks from artists for free, but that might not be a good thing Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide : ...
A look at the many ways Apple's Shazam acquisition, the app's data on its 150M users, and its R&D team can bolster Apple Music in its fight against Spotify
The MBW Review offers our take on some of the music biz's biggest recent goings-on. This time, Murray Stassen takes a gander … Tweets: @musically and @hbsmktg Tweets: @musically : A few thoughts, spa...