Music plays a powerful role in how users engage with apps. According to the 2024 Feed.fm consumer app use survey, apps featuring popular music are seeing longer session times, more downloads, and greater user satisfaction.

Explore the survey insights.

Virgin Music Group Acquires Market Leading Artist and Label Services Company Outdustry

The acquisition brings to Virgin, Outdustry’s decade-and-a-half experience in these dynamic markets, where it will continue to operate its marketing services, publishing company, and label businesses under the Outdustry brand.

LoveTunesAI will make 80 personalised ‘custom songs’ for $29

The latest AI-music startup has its sights set on a specific market: personalised ‘custom songs’ created for people to share with friends, family or colleagues (or just themselves).

Nintendo made a music streaming app for Switch Online subscribers

While we all wait for the reveal of Nintendo’s next console, the company has once again announced something very different. This time, it’s a mobile app called Nintendo Music, which lets users listen to classic gaming tunes from Nintendo games spanning the last few decades, including Splatoon, Animal Crossing, and The Legend of Zelda. It’s only available to Switch Online subscribers.

SiriusXM Liquid Metal dedicates full hour to AI music as DJ explores 'existential threat’ to metal

In a horrifying taste of what could be in our future, Liquid Metal's show Bloody Roots, hosted by Ian Christe, features an episode this week dedicated to AI generated metal called "Metal's Worst Nightmare". In the episode, Christe address the automation and ease of making metal through AI compared to making it with human hands.

BeatStars is putting its catalogue in music-studio app Voloco

It’s a potentially big deal because Voloco has been downloaded more than 70m times, with “millions” of emerging and professional artists using it to create more than 70k recordings a day.

Glassnote partners with AI-powered tech platform Hook

Launched last month, the New York-based app enables artists to monetise new versions of songs created by fans and shared online.

ASCAP and Sacem form strategic alliance that will include a new AI task force

The new partnership, announced on Wednesday (October 30), builds on earlier strategic collaborations between the two, including a 2022 digital licensing partnership under which Sacem represents ASCAP’s repertoire in negotiating and collecting royalties from DSPs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The Entanglement – AI, Platform Musicking, and the Future of Music

Given the vast amount of user data that streaming platforms have now amassed, combined with advancing AI technology, it is only a matter of time until they offer the ability to generate music, writes Jennifer Walshe. But what does this mean for the future of the art form?

Avenged Sevenfold hold intimate 25th anniversary concert exclusively for members of NFT-based fanclub

Still NFT-sceptic? That makes you and millions of others. But many forward-thinking artists and their communities are already reaping the benefits of having faith in the blockchain, and its potential to provide exclusive real-world utility.

YouTube ad revenues reached $8.92bn in Q3, up 12.2% YoY

YouTube's ad revenues beat analysts' expectations.

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