The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) announced the winners of the 7th Annual Lovie Awards, with N=5 taking the top honour of Lovie Agency of the Year. With 2 Gold, 4 Silver, 2 Bronze, 4 People’s Lovie Awards and 3 works Shortlisted, including Evert_45, The Good Life Agency, Helping Heart and SpeechService, […]
SXSW Music Festival 2018 will take place in Austin, Texas, from March 12-18. This year’s keynote speakers include Darren Aronofsky, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barry Jenkins, and more. The festival will also feature performances by Shamir, Higher Brothers, Snail Mail, Keith Ape, The Wedding Present, Sammus, Rich Chigga, IAMBBD, Shopping, SPORTS, Marlon Williams, Sinead Harnett, Rude Kid, […]
Louis Tomlinson just has shared another solo single, called “Just Like You”. The artist took to Twitter earlier this week to tease the track, writing on the social platform: I wrote a song called ‘Just Like You’ a few months ago. After a few conversations with the label I told them that I wanted to […]
Kobalt expects to turn over approximately half a billion dollars in its current financial year – after raising another $14m in a fresh funding round. The company’s latest Series D raise comes from Section 32 – the US-based venture capital fund created by Bill Maris, who was formerly head of Google Ventures. As part of […]
The website “The Information”, disclosed some figures about Spotify, claiming they came from “two people briefed on the numbers” which were also shared with investors. The streaming coloss – reportedly – has driven revenues of €1.9bn in the first half of 2017 and looks set to generate €4.1bn by the end of the year. Losses […]
Foo Fighters‘ Cal JAM festival took place in San Bernardino, California, on October 7. Artists like Queens of the Stone Age, Babes in Toyland, Cage the Elephant and Wolf Alice played their sets… also, on the lineup was Liam Gallagher, who joined Dave Grohl’s band during the closing set for a rocking rendition of Beatles’ song “Come […]
Mixcloud, the London-born streaming startup, has now a milestone deal: a direct licensing agreement with Warner Music, enabling it to start building new subscription products. SoundCloud rival Mixcloud attracts around 17m monthly users. It hosts 12m radio shows, podcasts and DJ sets which have been uploaded by more than a million ‘curators’ – including the […]
Queen just released previously unheard versions of “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions” to mark the 40th anniversary of their seminal album “News Of The World”. These new versions will be featured in the “Raw Sessions” disc of the upcoming 40th Anniversary re-issue of “News Of The World”, which is due out […]
Last night’s Google press event also saw the unveiling of the company’s new own-brand Pixel 2 Android smartphones, complete with a feature that treads firmly on Shazam’s toes by identifying music that’s currently playing nearby. The feature is called “Now Playing” and here’s how it was described on-stage. “With Now Playing, you see the song […]
There is more fodder for the debate about how the growth of music-streaming consumption compares to its growth in revenues this morning, courtesy of Nielsen in the US. Its latest figures show that the number of on-demand audio AND video streams in the US in the first nine months of 2017 was up 40.5% year-on-year […]
