Tag: wellbeing

There are a lot of exciting things happening around music, wellbeing and fitness in 2020: from artists working with meditation services like Calm and Headspace, to the growth of Peloton and other fitness startups who make...

Even before Covid-19 and its lockdowns around the world, there was a growing amount of talk about wellbeing in and around the music industry. The pandemic has only sharpened the sense that as an industry, we could be doing...

Apple has quietly been becoming a digital health and fitness company for a while now, with wellbeing becoming a key selling point for its Apple Watch smartwatch. Now Amazon wants in on the fitness-wearables game. It has...

We're big fans of famous artists being given spurious job titles as part of partnerships with tech companies, dating back to the glory days of Lady Gaga as Polaroid creative director and Will·I·Am as director of creative...

Julianna Barwick is the latest artist to release music through meditation app Calm, following in the footsteps of Moby, Above & Beyond and Kygo. Barwick, who's signed to Ninja Tune, is releasing three extended versions...

Mindfulness apps Calm and Headspace have raised big funding rounds in recent years, and have been growing in popularity. Mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower reckons that the top 10 meditation apps generated $195m of user...

"Hello. I'm Harry Styles..." Those four words have set off some social-media excitement overnight, spoken by Styles himself in a promo video for meditation app Calm. He's going to be reading one of the 'sleep stories'...

Chopra is the wellness company launched by author and alternative-medicine figure Deepak Chopra. It's just announced a partnership with Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin for a 21-day meditation program called 'Renew Yourself:...

Canadian startup Lucid has launched its first music app, called Vibe. The app “draws upon cognitive science, music theory, and artificial intelligence to develop a personalised profile for each user” before offering...

Meditation and mindfulness app Calm has been moving deeper into music over the past 18 months – notably landing the launch exclusive for Moby’s ‘Long Ambients 2’ album last March; partnering with Above...

If there’s one startup category that’s booming during the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s meditation and mindfulness – particularly when it comes to raising money from investors. Headspace, one of the biggest...

Spotify and other streaming services have been luring talent away from radio for a long time now, with British public-service broadcaster the BBC suffering particularly from the brain drain. However, it’s also making...