Pink Floyd are getting ready to smash the bricks in the wall* between the band and streaming music services, starting with Spotify. The band have made the 2011 remastered edition of their 'Wish You...
June 14th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
June 14th, 2013 by Music Ally
We don't like to criticise other music industry sites. Partly because we're British and polite, and partly because, well, thin ice etc. Our confident prediction in 2007 that Apple was preparing to launch...
June 10th, 2013 by Music Ally
Remember that marketing partnership between Coca-Cola and Spotify more than a year ago? We haven't seen much of the companies' promise to make Spotify "the key underlying technology for Coca-Cola Music...
June 3rd, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Moods are one of the big digital music trends right now. Well, moods and 'contextual' music: playlists to suit specific emotions (happy, sad, excited) or activities (exercising, working, getting ready...
June 3rd, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
French music industry body SNEP has published its recorded music sales figures for the first quarter of 2013, and they don't make for fun reading. Physical sales were down 7.3% year-on-year to €77m...
May 30th, 2013 by Music Ally
Spotify now has 33m monthly active users who've connected their account to Facebook, making it by far the most popular music service in Facebook terms, if not in total users.
May 29th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Streaming music service Spotify revealed plans to add new Discover and Follow tabs to its service in December 2012, with the former helping people find friends, artists and tastemakers to connect to, and...
May 23rd, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
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...
May 23rd, 2013 by Music Ally
At the time of writing, the Twitter #music app is the 127th most popular free music app in Apple's US App Store, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Epic Drum Set, Cat Piano and Ringtone Maker Free. Ouch.
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