Colombia’s recorded music market is benefitting from excellent digital infrastructure, widespread smartphone use and strong local talent.
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Luminate talks music data: Coldplay, Indonesia, streaming growth and more
Its name may have changed, but research firm Luminate remains one of the music industry’s key sources of data.
Colombian industry hopeful of growth despite Covid-19
The number one question for anyone in the music industry now – recorded or live – is what shape the business will be in when we finally emerge from the […]
Country Profile – Colombia 2020
Colombia’s music industry has gone from strength to digital strength, giving some hope that it may come out of the global pandemic in relatively healthy shape.
Spotify creates its own daily-news podcast in Colombia
We reported yesterday on the launch of a new, daily true-crime podcast by Spotify’s recently-acquired Parcast studio. Now Spotify is launching another daily podcast – in Colombia. It’s called ‘El […]
Music Ally Report 403: Hardware Special
Welcome to our hardware special. Here we look at the music-related technologies that are most exciting, interesting or liable to propel the music business into its next stage of evolution. We have consciously stepped back from VR, in part because we already did a primer last month for subscribers but also because it tends to […]
Country Profile – Colombia 2017
There is plenty of optimism about the digital music industry in Colombia as its revenues crossed the 50% threshold before the likes of Brazil, Germany and the UK
Music Ally Report 369: Apple Music’s Five Time Bombs
Our cover feature comes in the light of the indies and Taylor Swift forcing Apple to revise its initial stance of not paying rights holders during the three-month free trial on Apple Music. That particular explosion might have been averted but it still has a series of other time bombs to diffuse – including clearing […]
Rdio launches in seven new countries
Rdio went live in seven more territories yesterday: Malaysia, Hong Kong, Colombia, Chile, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Poland.
Music Ally Report: Music moves for web 2.0 giants
Our lead examines new music services from Google, Facebook and MySpace. These three companies are offering more ways for people to discover music in a legal way – i) search, ii) gifting and iii) social recommendations.