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Hosts: Andrea Leonelli, Neil Cartwright, Tony Hymes This week on Digital Music Trends we chat about Yahoo’s Aviate and its new music functionality, the Brit Awards and the use of Twitter Amplify (sponsored by VO5), Spotify’s rumored IPO – pros and cons?, Russian social network vKontakte getting an earful on piracy from the US and the UK, […] The post DMT 171: Brits, Aviate, IPOs, vKontakte, SXSW, Dhingana appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

Hosts: Andrea Leonelli, Kristelia Garcia (kristelia.com), Karim Fanous (MusicAlly.com), Darren Hemmings (motiveunknown.com). This week on DMT: a round-up of the recorded music revenues from 2013, an industry for or against YouTube?, Beats Music’s AT&T partnership, Spotify’s deal with The Times, Shuffler.fm‘s new “Pause” app and Sonos integration, the latest on the ASCAP/BMI rate court battles. You can find the show on iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio and Spreaker. You […] The post DMT 170: 2013 revenues, YouTube, Beats Music & streaming bundles, Shuffler.fm, ASCAP/BMI appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends a MIDEM 2014 special to savour:  sit back, relax and enjoy this one since guests include Charles Caldas (Merlin), Luis Justo (Rock in Rio), Benji Rogers (Pledge Music), Mel Brown (Impressive PR), Mandar Thakur (Times Music), Ken Hertz (Hertz, Lichtenstein and Young LLP), Scott Cohen (The Orchard), Norman Abdul […] The post DMT 169: The MIDEM 2014 Big Show appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends Pete Jimison (efsharp.com) and Clyde Smith (Hypebot.com) join me to chat about SoundCloud’s new round, Last.fm, the Grammys, Prince suing fans and then taking it back, Rap Genius’ UMPG deal and new mobile app, Baidu’s new wireless box in China, Sweden 2013 figures and more… Unfortunately we suffered a major glitch in the […] The post DMT 168: SoundCloud, Last.fm, Grammys, Prince, Rap Genius, Baidu… appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Eamonn Forde, Lucas Gonze and Adam Webb in a very streaming-oriented show kicking off with the headline story that is the launch of Beats Music in the United States and its potential impact on the streaming market. We also cover Kim Dotcom’s soft launch of Baboom, Spotify’s […] The post DMT 167: Beats Music debut, Kim Dotcom’s Baboom, Spotify merch integration appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to chat with Andrew Dubber (Birmingham City University, Music Tech Fest), and Camille Ainsworth (Charm Factory), we discuss the latest Nielsen data on streaming in the US, Pandora’s growth, Mixcloud’s new website, Whyd’s funding, the potential partnership between Samsung and Deezer, Playlists.net acquiring Topsify’s playlists, the power of curation and […] The post DMT 166: Streaming numbers, Pandora, Mixcloud, Whyd, Playlists.net, Samsung+Deezer appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Martyn Davies (Sendgrid, MusicHackDay) and Ben Graham (StrategyEye). In a pretty tech-focused show we discuss Gracenote’s sale to Tribune and the Gracenote Rhythm announcement, we also chat about Google giving Rap Genius a slap on the wrist, Beats Music’s latest rumors, CES gadgets, Gaga lashing out over Artpop and much […] The post DMT 165: Gracenote, Rap Genius, Beats, CES, Gaga & more! appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends a show presenting extracts from the interviews I carried out over the course of 2013 at Midem, SXSW, The World Creators Summit, Music Connected, Future Music Camp and more. From digital distributors to major labels to artists, startups and government representatives, there’s a bit of everything in this year recap. You […] The post DMT 164: Around the World in 2013 appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

Hope you’re having a good holiday break wherever you are! In this special episode of Digital Music Trends I chat with Jim Lucchese the CEO of music intelligence company The Echo Nest. The company was started in 2005 in Boston, MA and has experienced tremendous growth over the past couple of years with over 400 applications […] The post DMT 163: The Echo Nest appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends I had the pleasure to welcome Glenn Peoples (Billboard), Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown) and Michael Roffman (Consequence of Sound). We chat about Beyoncé’s surprise album release and its potential impact on the industry, discuss the news stories that influenced 2013 and may also be relevant through 2014 and finally talk about the future of innovation for music apps and services using […] The post DMT 162: Beyoncé (and more Beyoncé ), the most influential stories of 2013 and music apps innovation appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends from Andrea Leonelli, Duncan Geere (duncangeere.com) Dave Allen (north.com) and Virginie Berger (dbth.fr)  chat about Spotify’s NYC announcement revealing free access to both tablet and mobile users and its potential impact as well as the company’s exclusive deal with Led Zeppelin, we also chat about our music tech wish lists for Christmas, Beatport‘s layoffs, Pandora‘s alarm (and the little things that […] The post DMT 161: Free Spotify for All, Music Gift Guide, Beatport, Pandora’s Alarm appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to welcome Neil Cartwright (Million Media), Syd Lawrence (wemakeawesomeshit) and Ryan Rauscher (Smix.Lab, Popakademie). We chat about Beats Music launching in January 2014, YouTube Music’s upcoming service now expected in Q1 2014, the Spotify Artists initiative including the analytics play and the Topspin partnership, music-specific messaging opportunities, BT’s upcoming music service, […] The post DMT 160: Beats Music, YouTube Music & a hot Q1, Spotify Artists, Messaging, BT, HMV appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

A packed show this week on Digital Music Trends featuring Jim Carroll (Irish Times) and Ben Sisario (New York Times). We discuss the latest round of funding at Spotify and music tech investments in 2013, Turntable.fm’s demise, Soundrop on Deezer, The Echo Nest’s new advertising play, Goldieblox vs Beastie Boys, the end of the road for Winamp, Rdio’s cuts, […] The post DMT 159: Spotify, Goldieblox, Turntable.fm, Soundrop, The Echo Nest, Rdio & CMT appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with David Riley (Signature Brew), J Herskowitz (Tomahawk) and Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown) about Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP release campaign, Deezer’s latest news, YouTube’s Fan Finder initiative, Rap Genius’s deals, Twitter advertising, Mixcloud’s new Android app and much more. You can find this week’s shownotes here. I really hope you enjoy the show, have a […] The post DMT 158: Gaga, Deezer, Fan Finder, Rap Genius, Mixcloud appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends a panel I moderated at Social Media Week a few weeks back featuring Dave Haynes (SoundCloud), Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut (Roli), Brittney Bean (Songdrop) and Ian Hogarth (Songkick). On the panel we look to the future as we examine the macro trends transforming the way we create, sell and consume music. Which key trends are still to play out […] The post DMT 157: Digital Music Trends – Looking forward to the next 5 years appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to welcome Benji Rogers (Pledge Music) and Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown) to the show. We chat about the latest reports surrounding the upcoming arrival of a YouTube music subscription service, Google’s reported $5m investment into Lyor Cohen’s new music venture (and why is Google getting into the content business?), […] The post DMT 156: YouTube Music subs, Troy Carter’s fund, SFX, SoundCloud at a 1/4 billion users appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends a great panel featuring Steve Knopper (author and Rolling Stone contributing editor), Alejandro Marin (TheMusicPimp.com and Radio DJ at La X Mas Musica) and Jules Parker (Polaroid Management). We chat about Telefonica’s deal with Rhapsody to get Napster bundled into mobile contracts as well as the demise of Terra Sonora in the process, Twitter #Music facing the axe […] The post DMT 155: Telefonica/Rhapsody, Twitter Music, Playlists.net, HMV’s App, iTunes Radio appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to welcome Incubus manager Steve Rennie (renmanmb.com / @renman1) and journalists Eliot Van Buskirk (Evolver.fm / @listeningpost) and David Downs (davidrdowns.com / @davidrdowns) for a discussion that covered SFX’s IPO on NASDAQ, David Byrne’s recent Guardian op-ed on streaming, Rdio’s Stratos documentary exclusive, iTunes being more expensive than Amazon, Miley Cyrus’ […] The post DMT 154: SFX IPO, Byrne & streaming, Rdio gets Stratos, Miley at n.1, Pandora & more… appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to chat with Emmanuel Legrand (@legrandnetwork) and Rob MacAllister (@robowenmac). On this full show we cover the BBC launching the Playlister as a digital hub of all its music programming, HMV’s 5 point plan, Muve Music reaching 2 million subscribers in the US (but do […] The post DMT 153: BBC’s Playlister, Muve Music, OneMusic, MusicBiz.org, the LSE paper and more appeared first on Digital Music Trends.

This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Scott Cohen founder of the Orchard and Chris Ruen, author of Freeloading: How our insatiable hunger for free content starves creativity. We discuss the new bill put forward in the US by Mel Watt to introduce performance royalty payments from traditional radio network, Soundrop’s new round of funding, Beats’ new investor, Spotify’s […] The post DMT 152: Radio Bill, Soundrop funding, Songza & Foursquare, Spotlight, YouTube Music Awards appeared first on Digital Music Trends.