Synopsis
Digital Music Trends brings you the latest news in the digital music industry. Each week a panel of music tech journalists and digital music experts from labels, consultancies and startups discuss and analyse the news making sense of the latest on streaming services, digital marketing, internet radio, licensing, collection societies, copyright and much more. DMT also covers events has reported from SXSW, Midem, the Future Music Forum, AIMs Music Connected, Berlin Music Week and more. The show has been running since 2009 and hosted by Andrea Leonelli. Released every Friday.
Episodes
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DMT 131: Tunigo, Songza, BitTorrent Bundles, Vevo & Toyota, Red Bull Academy, Metadata & GRD
09/05/2013 Duration: 55minThis week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Adam Webb and Richard Kirstein (Resilient Music). We start with music streaming stories talking about Spotify acquiring Tunigo and about Songza’s latest update and its growth in numbers. We also cover Bittorrent’s introduction of the Bittorrent Bundles alpha in partnership with Ultra Music and Kaskade, the year-long deal between Vevo […] The post DMT 131: Tunigo, Songza, BitTorrent Bundles, Vevo & Toyota, Red Bull Academy, Metadata & GRD appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 130: SiriusXM, #Music, Morrissey, Shazam + Future Music Camp Interviews
02/05/2013 Duration: 52minThis week on Digital Music Trends first a quick news round-up covering the latest on SiriusXM, Twitter #Music, iTunes, Amanda Palmer’s shout-out to Morrissey, Shazam and the compilation market in the UK. Then a few interviews recorded at Future Music Camp 2013 in Mannheim. The event, organized by the Popakademie, saw students, music industry and startups come together to […] The post DMT 130: SiriusXM, #Music, Morrissey, Shazam + Future Music Camp Interviews appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 129: All about Twitter Music, Grooveshark’s woes, Daft Punk Get Lucky on Spotify, PSY & more
25/04/2013 Duration: 46minThis week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Ben Sisario (New York Times), Eliot Van Buskirk (Evolver.fm) and Andy Malt (CMU). The news of the week of course is Twitter Music so we proceed to review, analyse and ponder the many angles of this story, though I can’t promise that is a linear process in any way… Then we chat […] The post DMT 129: All about Twitter Music, Grooveshark’s woes, Daft Punk Get Lucky on Spotify, PSY & more appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 128: AIM’s Music Connected Conference
19/04/2013 Duration: 46minThis week on Digital Music Trends an event-specific show with a collection of interviews recorded at the Music Connected event organised by the Association of Independent Music in London. We chat about digital marketing, release planning, advertising budgets, getting exposure on streaming services, the responsibilities of management and much more with companies like Beggars, Spotify, Ministry of […] The post DMT 128: AIM’s Music Connected Conference appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 127: Vdio’s in, BBM Music’s out, lots of numbers and nice infographics
12/04/2013 Duration: 37minOn this episode of Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli and Tom Davenport chat about Vdio’s long-awaited debut to US and UK Rdio subscribers, BBM Music’s retirement, the latest numbers from the IFPI & NPD, some lovely infographics from Pandora celebrating the 200m users milestone and from the BPI celebrating the 1 billionth digital single sold in the […] The post DMT 127: Vdio’s in, BBM Music’s out, lots of numbers and nice infographics appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 126: ReDigi’s court loss, the future of charts, shelving the three strikes, the power of indies
05/04/2013 Duration: 01h01minThis week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Steve Knopper (Rolling Stone) and Eamonn Forde (MusicAlly). Lots to talk about as we delve into Redigi’s court loss in the case brought by Capitol Records, the passing of Phil Ramone, the evolution and future of charts in the US and the UK, the three strikes law in South Korea, […] The post DMT 126: ReDigi’s court loss, the future of charts, shelving the three strikes, the power of indies appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 125: Sweet musical Tweets, the Spotify ads, reselling digital goods
29/03/2013 Duration: 50minOn this episode of Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Dave Allen, director of interactive strategy at North.com and former Gang of Four bass player, and Nikke Osterback, founder of digital strategy agency Saari Music. We chat about Twitter’s entry in the music space, Spotify’s new advertising campaign as well as rehashed rumours of a video service, Deezer’s CEO outlook […] The post DMT 125: Sweet musical Tweets, the Spotify ads, reselling digital goods appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 124: The SXSW ’13 interviews
24/03/2013 Duration: 01h10minDigital Music Trends reports from SXSW 2013 with an hour-long summary show of all the interviews recorded during the 8-day stay in Austin, Texas. In DMT 124 representatives from companies/organisations like 7digital, Lyricfind, SoundHound, ONErpm, Sperry Media, Republic Records, CD Baby, Jamplify, Givit, MediaNet, Songza, Soundexchange, VH1, Pollack Media, Livestream, George Washington Law School, The […] The post DMT 124: The SXSW ’13 interviews appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 123: A Good Day To Stream Hard
07/03/2013 Duration: 48minThis week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Karim Fanous (Music Ally) and Syd Laurence (Wemakeawesomesh.it, Twilio). It’s certainly a good day and a good year to stream hard as the big players put their chips on the table: with Beats raising $60m for Daisy, Tesco planning a Blinkbox Music rollout, Google bringing YouTube’s weight to the table and […] The post DMT 123: A Good Day To Stream Hard appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 122: Google streams (music), Spotify rides (Fords), Harlem Shakes (charts) & much more
28/02/2013 Duration: 01h03minThis week on DMT 122 I’m joined by Matthew Hawn and Darren Hemmings. We discuss reports of Google entering the music streaming market, Spotify’s deal with Ford and the significance of on-demand in the car, Harlem Shake’s no. 1, the Billboard moneymakers list looking at recorded vs touring vs streaming income, the live tweeting of Radio 1’s playlisting […] The post DMT 122: Google streams (music), Spotify rides (Fords), Harlem Shakes (charts) & much more appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 121: Gracenote courts devs, Top 10’s decline, Gema/Youtube & digital music in Germany
21/02/2013 Duration: 01h06minThis week on Digital Music Trends we have an all-German panel, with Ryan Rauscher (Smix.lab, Futuremusiccamp), Barbara Hallama (Hallama.org) and Steffen Holly (Fraunhofer IDMT). On the show we tackle the international news first, starting with Gracenote’s new Developer Program which makes the company’s APIs and MusicID available to all on a non-commercial basis. We also chat about a couple of recent articles […] The post DMT 121: Gracenote courts devs, Top 10’s decline, Gema/Youtube & digital music in Germany appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 120: Web Radio, Apple’s 25 billion, BPI, Parlophone and Daisy
15/02/2013 Duration: 45minThis week on Digital Music Trends I’m joined by Taishi Fukuyama (All Access Today Japan) and Sam Taylor (CMU, Great Escape Conference). In what was a technically challenging show (those who follow the video version will see what I mean) we managed eventually to chat about: – Pandora’s latest numbers, Web Radio, market saturation and […] The post DMT 120: Web Radio, Apple’s 25 billion, BPI, Parlophone and Daisy appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 119: Midem 2013, The Full Summary
08/02/2013 Duration: 55minThis Week on Digital Music Trends we take a break from the traditional weekly panel based on the week’s news to showcase some of the interviews I recorded at Midem 2013. The first part features some of the start-ups I met, so we’ll check out Spins.fm, Pulselocker, JoyTunes and Yasound. In the second part we […] The post DMT 119: Midem 2013, The Full Summary appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 118: Bjork’s Kickstarter, Streaming Battles, Repugnant Myspace?
02/02/2013 Duration: 43minOn this episode of DMT I’m joined by Glenn Peoples (@billboardglenn) and J Herskowitz (@jherskowitz). This week we talk about: – Bjork’s Kickstarter campaign for Biophilia – Rdio launching a free 6-month trial of the service in multiple territories – Samsung’s Music Hub going beyond Samsung devices – Sony Music Unlimited HQ audio: will anyone […] The post DMT 118: Bjork’s Kickstarter, Streaming Battles, Repugnant Myspace? appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 117: The One With MySpace, Redigi, Mega, Sweden, Fandalism, HMV…
25/01/2013 Duration: 01h07minThis week on Digital Music Trends we cover The Most News Ever. Only kidding, but it’s a hefty number of stories and I couldn’t have done it without the help of Stuart Dredge and Darren Hemmings. This week we talk about: – the public launch of MySpace, Justin Timberlake’s involvement and the Merlin rights issue. – Redigi’s upcoming […] The post DMT 117: The One With MySpace, Redigi, Mega, Sweden, Fandalism, HMV… appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 116: Beats ‘n Daisy, Amazon’s Auto-Rip and HMV’s fate
17/01/2013 Duration: 52minThis is a busy news week on DMT but thankfully I’m joined by David Emery (Beggars), Will Mills (Shazam) and Duncan Geere (DuncanGeere.com) to help make sense of it all. We start out by talking about Beats by Dre and their recent announcement of project Daisy (with Topspin’s Ian Rogers as CEO), then we move on to talking about the launch […] The post DMT 116: Beats ‘n Daisy, Amazon’s Auto-Rip and HMV’s fate appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 115: 2012 sales, streaming Led Zep, artist strategies for 2013
11/01/2013 Duration: 52minHappy new year to all DMT listeners! This week I’m joined by David Riley from Good Lizard Media and Clyde Smith from Hypebot. We kick off a new run of the podcast by looking at the music sales figures from 2012 coming from the US (Nielsen/Billboard) and the UK (BPI/Official Charts Company). Nothing hugely uplifting but things could be worse… We also talk […] The post DMT 115: 2012 sales, streaming Led Zep, artist strategies for 2013 appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 114 – A year in the world of 7 start-ups and a look at 2013
24/12/2012 Duration: 40minThis week a special Digital Music Trends end-of-year episode: seven start-ups give us the low-down on 2012 and their outlook for 2013. On the show: Alex White from Next Big Sound, Lee Parsons from Ditto Music, Dave Haynes from Soundcloud, Olivier de Simone from Webdoc, Nico Perez from Mixcloud, Francesco Baschieri from Spreaker, Ed Averdieck from Cuesongs. I hope you enjoy the show, enjoy the holidays and see you in the new year! Andrea Leonelli @digimusictrends The post DMT 114 – A year in the world of 7 start-ups and a look at 2013 appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 113 – Spotify, Spotify on the wall…
14/12/2012 Duration: 01h03minAfter last week’s raft of announcements from Spotify we spend the vast majority of the show making sense of where the company is heading. Featuring Steve Knopper (@knopps), Darren Hemmings (@mr_trick) and Eliot Van Buskirk (@listeningpost) as guest hosts we discuss Spotify’s latest numbers, the potential impact on users of the upcoming features, the impact […] The post DMT 113 – Spotify, Spotify on the wall… appeared first on Digital Music Trends.
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DMT 112 – Soundcloud, Discovery, Turntable & iTunes
06/12/2012 Duration: 46minSoundcloud’s new interface & reach numbers, the music discovery relevancy (heated) debate, Turntable’s revamp and Piki launch, the territorial expansion of iTunes & iTunes 11. These are some of the stories we cover on this week’s edition of DMT featuring Mark Mulligan (@mark_mulligan), Ben Sisario (@sisario) and Andy Malt (@andymalt) as guest hosts. You can find the shownotes and links to all […] The post DMT 112 – Soundcloud, Discovery, Turntable & iTunes appeared first on Digital Music Trends.