Streaming Music Headlines & Industry News
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Radio is finding an unexpected new role with younger music listeners: helping them escape the predictability of their own algorithms. A new MIDiA Research study finds that 42% of live-radio listeners ages 20 to 34 use the medium for music discovery, compared with 32% of live-radio listeners overall. Human DJs,…
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Taylor Swift’s complete catalog of 58 official music videos is now available on Spotify Premium, giving the streaming service its first full Swift video archive seven months after she used Spotify and Apple Music to give “Opalite” a head start over YouTube. The catalog arrived September 16th and stretches from…
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Spotify is expanding Fresh Finds from a discovery playlist into a yearlong artist-development program that offers emerging independent musicians everything from recording time and production software to tour opportunities and six months of therapy. Called Fresh Finds Forward, the program launched September 17 and is expected to support roughly 10,000…
