Tag: youtube music

Our spring 2022 quarterly report is for anyone who engages with music streaming platforms and wants to maximise their success on them: i.e. you, quite probably.  In this report, we take a comprehensive look at the state...

There are also some interesting quarterly charts of the top music and audio apps ranked by downloads.

Deezer’s Christmas channel has released a “Christmas Flow Mood Wheel” and YouTube Music gets retrospective with 2021 Recap, a Youtube Music app-only experience.

The Brit Awards, like all major music industry awards, have sparked lots of debate in recent years about the diversity of nominees and winners, and the structure of the awards themselves. Now a change has been made to...

There’s a bit more clarity about the full changes that YouTube Music is introducing, initially in Canada with a global rollout to follow.

Google unveiled its Pixel Pass plan yesterday, as part of the press event launching its latest own-brand Android smartphones.

Record labels are very keen for YouTube to migrate a greater share of its more than two billion monthly music users to paid subscriptions. One of the features dangled as temptation has been the ability to play music...

It has been a while since YouTube announced how many premium subscribers it had: 30 million in October 2020. Now there's an update...

Hotly-tipped artist Zoe Wees has been named this morning as YouTube's latest 'Artist on the Rise' as part of its program focusing on emerging stars.  However, the news around that is that the scheme is expanding to new countries:...

We don’t write that much about music streaming and smartwatches because it feels like a bit of a niche. It’s nice to be able to control or play music from your wrist, but not groundbreaking. Even so, we’re seeing a...

Distributor CD Baby says that it collected more than $125m of streaming revenues for its artists in 2020, which was 13.9% year-on-year growth. As in 2019, Spotify accounted for the biggest share of those revenues: 40% in...

YouTube’s chief product officer Neal Mohan has been blogging about some of the platform’s plans for 2021, including music. Mohan promised “more personalised mixes” based on activities and moods, as...