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The United States and United Kingdom are producing far more top-tier artists than they did five years ago, yet their combined share of the world’s biggest performers has fallen sharply as music markets elsewhere expand even faster. New data from Chartmetric shows U.S. and UK artists accounting for 40.7% of…
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Winamp is preparing to launch its own premium music subscription service with Deezer providing the streaming technology and licensed catalog behind a new player expected in the first half of 2027. The partnership gives Winamp a route into subscription streaming without turning the product into a simple Deezer app with…
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Migu Music and Huawei Software have won an IDC China Artificial Intelligence Innovation Award for an AI operations system already running inside the Chinese streaming platform’s production environment, putting artificial intelligence to work far below the layer listeners normally see. The companies received the Best Agent Practice Award for their…
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U.S. CD shipments jumped 45.7% to 17.5 million units during the first half of 2026, adding another chapter to a physical-music revival that is no longer being driven by vinyl alone. CD wholesale revenue climbed even faster, rising 58.6% to $171.1 million from $107.9 million during the same period last…
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Spotify has reached 300 million Premium subscribers, hitting a new scale for paid audio streaming as subscriber growth, revenue and profitability all increased during the second quarter of 2026. The company disclosed the milestone August 4th with its Q2 results. Premium subscriptions increased 9% from a year earlier, while Spotify…
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Apple Music has raised subscription prices in the United States and numerous international markets, with Apple pointing directly to rising music licensing costs as the reason listeners will now pay more for the streaming service. The changes took effect July 17th and mark Apple Music’s first major subscription increase since…
