China’s market watchdog on Saturday ruled Tencent Holdings Ltd., who owned 80 percent of exclusive music streaming rights in the country after a 2016 merger, to dissolve its domination. Tencent acquired a controlling stake in China Music Corporation in 2016. In terms of exclusive streaming rights, the duo took up …
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Telkom has announced its own music streaming platform in partnership with Tencent’s JOOX: Telkom Music Powered by JOOX. This follows other services launched by the telecoms provider over the past year, including TelkomONE and Telkom Pay. “In true Telkom style, our mission is to leave no man behind and we …
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SPOTIFY is taking swift action against those who download their songs to keep long after their monthly subscription has expired. Love Spotify, but wish songs would hang around long after you end your monthly subscription? Longing for the days of a music collection that was truly yours? Or just hate …
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People love to share their music tastes online. While Apple Music still has a long way to go with its shareable features, like the Replay playlist, Spotify has given its users a variety of options for them to show what they’re currently listening to. Even so, this doesn’t stop other …
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The MRC Data report has shined a light on the prominence of streaming, which has boasted a 27.5% year-on-year boost, totaling a staggering 1.3 trillion through 2021’s opening months. In addition to his U.S. on-demand song streaming (covering both audio and video platforms) improved by 10.8% YoY, to 555.3 billion …
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We compare the features, cost and catalogue of the two streaming services to help you decide where to spend your subscription money. French company Deezer were one of the first music streaming services launching just one year after Spotify in 2007. Today, Deezer is available in 180+ countries around the …
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In a recent analysis of the top 20 most streamed songs on the five most popular music streaming services, Integr8 Research finds dramatic differences in the styles of music that users play most on each service. “Among Amazon Music and Pandora users, Country is huge, comprising 40% of the most-played …
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The coming of the new millennium saw the music industry undergo major digital transformations. What at first seemed like the end of the industry turned into new ways of earning money and getting discovered. The rise of Napster and similar platforms saw a dramatic slump in physical music sales, and album sales …
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We compare the features, cost and catalogue of the two streaming services to help you decide where to spend your subscription money. Initially launching as an internet radio service, today Pandora is a US-only music streaming service. Pandora is available for free with ads, Pandora Plus offers additional features, but includes ads …
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Whether you want to hum to your favorite song or prepare for a music competition with your friends, you need to have the right lyrics. Unfortunately, it can be hard to understand the words sometimes; that’s why you need accurate lyrics to sing along to. There are lots of mobile …
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