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Tok and Roll: Led Zeppelin are latest heritage band on TikTok
Led Zeppelin are launching an official profile on the social app while also making clips of their full catalogue available for TikTokers to create with.
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Billie Eilish has 30m YouTube subscribers; added 16m in last year
It’s been a period of near-constant records and milestones for Billie Eilish: her latest achievement is passing 30 million subscribers to her YouTube channel. She’s one of fewer than 15 artists […]
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Rock veterans Robert Plant and David Gilmour launch podcasts
You don’t have to be a young whippersnapper to launch your own music podcast in 2019. Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour have joined the pod party, […]
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Sandbox Issue 223: Fluent in Influence. MUSIC X INFLUENCERS
Lead: the days of throwing bales of cash at a mega-influencer to get a mention in one of their Instagram posts are thankfully in sharp decline (with the disastrous Fyre Festival accelerating this trend). But what is taking its place? Influencer marketing is clearly growing in importance – as seen most visibly in the fact […]
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Led Zeppelin Experience may offer streams of concert recordings
It’s been a long time since they rock and rolled: the last time Led Zeppelin played live was for a one-off reformation in December 2007, and since then hopes of […]
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Wolfgang’s Vaults faces infringement suit from NMPA
The National Music Publishers’ Association is taking legal action against Wolfgang’s Vaults and its related sites (such as Daytrotter) over copyright concerns. “Wolfgang’s Vault calls itself the ‘largest collection of […]
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Just how popular are Led Zeppelin with streaming music users?
Led Zeppelin signed an exclusive streaming deal for their back catalogue with Spotify in December 2013, leaving not a whole lotta love (sorry) for rival streaming services. That relationship has since taken in the latest set of Led Zep remasters, and a tribute to ‘Led Zeppelin IV’ as part of Spotify’s Landmark series.
But yesterday, the band’s catalogue spread its wings and flew to other services: Deezer, Tidal and Rdio are among those to have announced that they have it. Deezer Elite and Tidal, obviously, have it at HD quality, with Led Zeppelin likely to figure prominently in both services’ efforts to court an audiophile audience. But it’s a good time to consider just how popular this kind of band are for a general streaming audience.
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Spotify’s latest Landmark is a tribute to Led Zeppelin
Spotify’s editorial team isn’t just working on playlists: it has also spawned the Landmark series of multimedia tributes to classic albums: Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ and Nas’ ‘Illmatic’ so far. Now […]
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Blitzr Music promises to stream the unstreamable artists
“Bored of not being allowed to enjoy Radiohead and Led Zeppelin on the same premium/ad-supported music service?” asks the App Store listing for Blitzr Music, a new music discovery app […]
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Led Zeppelin remastered albums promoted by WMG’s PlaylistMe team
What seems like the umpteenth round of Led Zeppelin remasters are live and loud this month, including homepage promotion on Spotify for a playlist of the new deluxe editions of […]
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Analysis: the morning after Spotify’s day before
By now, you won’t need us to just rehash the details of Spotify’s big announcement last night. Free ad-supported streaming through its smartphone and tablet apps; an exclusive deal with Led Zeppelin; significant global expansion from 35 countries to 55; and the ditching of its 10-hour monthly listening caps in the markets that still had them.
Coming just a week after Spotify unveiled a set of artist-focused initiatives including analytics and in-profile e-commerce, it represents a bold end to 2013 for the streaming service, as it gears up for well-funded competition in 2014. So what are the implications of last night’s announcements.