May 23rd, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' had been streamed nearly 25.5m times on Spotify by the end of last week, with its weekly streams increasing over the previous four weeks as the song gathered momentum. How do we know? Late last week, Spotify launched its new weekly charts, the Spotify 50 and Social 50, with the former ranking the 50 most-streamed songs in each of the 28 countries that Spotify is available in.

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Features

May 23rd, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Music industry body the RIAA sent its 20 millionth copyright takedown to Google this week, leading its EVP of anti-piracy initiatives Brad Buckles to write a doleful blog...

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April 29th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Strange though it may seem, given our youthful good looks, Music Ally's fortnightly digital music report was already 61 issues down when Apple launched its iTunes music store...

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Podcast

May 21st, 2013 by Music Ally

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Eamonn Forde and Stuart Dredge return to their underwater podcasting lair to discuss the burning (legal notice: not actually burning) issues of the day.

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