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Harry Styles' Streaming Power; UMG's ‘Secret’ Sample Service; Mdundo Aims for 50m Users by 2025

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Harry Styles' Fine Line was a streaming phenomenon - Harry's House is outperforming it by 200%
Harry Styles' Fine Line was a streaming phenomenon - Harry's House is outperforming it by 200%
How big is Harry’s House going to be - and can it match the streaming longevity of Fine Line? Read our analysis of the performance so far of Harry Styles’ all-conquering third album.
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African streaming service Mdundo aims for 50m users by 2025
African streaming service Mdundo aims for 50m users by 2025
Mdundo is one of the pan-African music streaming services that has been growing over the past couple of years.
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What’s the Elvis Business Worth? Graceland, Publishing & a New Film
What’s the Elvis Business Worth? Graceland, Publishing & a New Film
With a new biopic, booming publishing valuations and his continued cultural cache, the value of Elvis Presley’s estate could be $1 billion.
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Music festivals are a UX nightmare. Here’s how Snap and Live Nation are fixing them
Music festivals are a UX nightmare. Here’s how Snap and Live Nation are fixing them
Snap’s new lenses debut at the Electric Daisy Carnival, where they’ll provide maps, set lists, and directions to your friends in the crowd.
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Canada Pushes Spotify, Netflix and Other Foreign-Owned Streamers to Finance Local Content
Canada Pushes Spotify, Netflix and Other Foreign-Owned Streamers to Finance Local Content
Bill C-11, forcing tech companies to pour investment and promotion into local Canadian content, must now pass through the Senate in Ottawa to become law.
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Spotify's Dawn Ostroff on the state of the ad market
Spotify's Dawn Ostroff on the state of the ad market
Julia Boorstin speaks with Spotify’s Chief Content & Advertising Officer, Dawn Ostroff, about the state of the ad market and what’s driving future growth for the audio streaming company.
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Fender Unveils New Audio In-Ear and Earphone Collections
Fender Unveils New Audio In-Ear and Earphone Collections
Building On Its Sonic Legacy, Fender Introduces All-New Professional and Personal Experience To, Deliver Detail, Energy Comfort and Quality Audio
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This Tool Turns Your Favorite Music On Spotify Into A Festival Lineup
This Tool Turns Your Favorite Music On Spotify Into A Festival Lineup
Festify, a Spotify plug-in, will turn your Spotify listens into a Coachella-worthy festival lineup poster.
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Sonos Voice Control review: a speedy, private, music-focused assistant
Sonos Voice Control review: a speedy, private, music-focused assistant
Sonos Voice Control is a new smart assistant available on Sonos smart speakers. It lets you control music, group your Sonos speakers together, and more. It’s strictly focused on music and lacks the broad functionality of Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant.
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Mastercard teams up with Beatclub for 'Priceless' album
Mastercard teams up with Beatclub for 'Priceless' album
The new brand promo is being released on Spotify (and then other streaming platforms afterwards) for free.
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Bruce Springsteen 'Freehold Drop' first of new live streaming releases from Nugs.net
Bruce Springsteen 'Freehold Drop' first of new live streaming releases from Nugs.net
“The Freehold Drop” is the name of the first of five monthly streaming releases of Bruce Springsteen music on Nugs.net.
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Founder Richard Gottehrer shares the Orchard's indie origin story - Hypebot
Founder Richard Gottehrer shares the Orchard's indie origin story - Hypebot
Imagine a time without high-speed internet, no cell phones, no iPods or iTunes, no Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or even MySpace; back when Amazon only sold books. This was the world in which The Orchard was born, back in 1997.
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