A growing number of startups are opting to draw music from services like YouTube and SoundCloud rather than strike licensing deals with rightsholders
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Can YouTube-powered radio give Last.fm a new shot at success?
Last.fm may have been a pioneer of personal radio, but since its $280m acquisition by CBS in 2007, it’s receded from the spotlight even as its category became more important – first with Pandora in the US, and more recently with the radio features added to pretty much every major streaming music service.
Yet for all the predictions that the service is on its way down the dumper, it remains a valuable stash of data on people’s listening habits – especially for those who’ve connected it to newer services like Spotify.
Is a comeback on the cards for its core radio service, though? It emerged yesterday that a new beta version of the Last.fm Music Player has gone live, using YouTube to play music (with videos) rather than the site’s own player.
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Most Consumption in 2013, January 2014
This infographic is an extract from the Music Ally Report
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Miley Cyrus’ 924m views made her the top YouTube musician in 2H13
Now that’s what we call a wrecking ball. Miley Cyrus’ official Vevo channel notched up 924.5m video views in the second half of 2013, making her the most popular musician on Google’s video service.
How do we know? We’ve been crunching data from online video industry site Tubefilter, which has been publishing a monthly global Top 100 YouTube Channels chart since June 2013 – December’s came out yesterday. We’ve stripped out data on music channels from July to December to find out who the most popular artists were.
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comScore tracked 7.2bn of US video views for Vevo in 2013
Research firm comScore published its final monthly US Online Video Rankings data for 2013 yesterday, which means we can draw some conclusions about how the year went for music video service Vevo, as well as Google’s YouTube.
The big number for Vevo is 7.2bn – that’s the number of video views tracked by comScore for 2013 as a whole, as the service averaged around 603m monthly views in the US over the 12-month period.
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Nielsen hails ‘vibrant’ US music market’s streaming growth
We’re still waiting for 2013 revenue figures for the US music industry to understand the true impact that the growth of streaming services like Spotify had on the market last year. But we do at least now have some more numbers to quantify the growth in terms of listening.
According to Nielsen and Billboard, US song streams jumped 32% to 118.1bn last year – a figure that includes streams from AOL, Cricket’s Muve Music, MediaNet, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, YouTube, Vevo and Zune (!). On-demand audio streams specifically (i.e. not YouTube/Vevo) rose 103%.
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Music startup Whyd raises $700k and opens up to all
French startup Whyd is one of a group of startups aiming to help people collect and organise music from other services
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Silent Night caused a ContentID controversy
It wasn’t such a happy Christmas for musician Adam Manley, who publishes music videos under the name of Adam the Alien on YouTube
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YouTube gets a new global music partnerships boss
Just in time for the launch of its long-awaited music subscription service, YouTube has a new director of global music partnerships.
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INDmusic battles back in row over TuneCore partnership
Digital distributor TuneCore and its YouTube MCN partner INDmusic have found themselves in hot water with artists and songwriters this week
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Distiller Music Group turns to YouTube for new TV show
The latest music company launching its own TV show on YouTube is UK-based Distiller Music Group.
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Turkey’s MÜ-YAP was YouTube’s biggest channel in November
For most of 2013, the most popular YouTube channel in the world belonged to PewDiePie, an early-twentysomething Swede called Felix Kjellberg who posts videos of himself playing games and cracking jokes.
In November, though, he was beaten into second place on Google’s video service by a music channel, but it didn’t belong to Miley, Katy or any other individual star. Instead, the biggest YouTube channel in the world last month belonged to MÜ-YAP, the Turkish Phonographic Industry Society.