Platform & Stream A daily digest of music streaming news 252 issues Subscribe to my list This thingy has to be empti pwieshh
#252 September 25, 2017 What Spotify’s Rap Caviar Says About the Music Industry; EU Paves Path Towards Fair Taxation of the Digital Economy
#251 September 22, 2017 Deezer Revs Up Against on Spotify, Apple and Amazon; The Controversy Around Music Stream Calculations
#250 September 21, 2017 Paid Streaming Subscriptions Rise 50%; How Streaming Music Platforms Can Last and Grow
#249 September 20, 2017 The Next Generation Of Soundcloud Rappers; How 'Bodak Yellow' Exploded on Streaming Services
#248 September 19, 2017 This Is Why Spotify Is Beating Apple Music; The 15 Best Music Business Schools In 2017
#247 September 18, 2017 Rappers Are Helping Hip-Hop Dominate Streaming; Spotify, Apple Music Plot Divergent Video Strategies
#246 September 15, 2017 The First-Ever Digital Single; Spotify's iMessage App; LiveXLive Acquires Slacker Radio
#245 September 14, 2017 Broadway Benefits From Streaming; Apple Gives iTunes a Scrub; Tidal Now Third In App Store Revenue For Music Apps
#244 September 13, 2017 The Music Industry Bands Together to Finally Get Paid Online; Why Discogs Is Ready To Serve Much More Than Just Music
#243 September 12, 2017 Deezer Seeks Musical Edge on Spotify; Tencent Music Signs Rights Deal with Alibaba
#242 September 11, 2017 Is Blockchain Technology the Future of Music Streaming?; Should Spotify Try to Become the 'Netflix Of Music'?
#241 September 8, 2017 Spotify: Teams with Hulu on College Deal, Announces First Live Music Event for the UK – If you don't see a newsletter Monday it's because Irma knocked out the power. Have a nice weekend! We
#240 September 7, 2017 Apple Reaches Music Deal With Warner; Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights
#239 September 6, 2017 Mercedes-Benz, TIDAL in Streaming Partnership; Stream-Ripping Site YouTube-MP3 Shuts Down after Settlement
#238 September 5, 2017 Spotify: Don't Compare Us to Napster; How is New Music Friday Doing? BE-AT.tv Boss Talks Livestreams
#237 September 1, 2017 The Agony and Ecstasy of Building an Online Music Business; Where Is the VR Music Revolution That Was Promised?
#236 August 31, 2017 Deezer Expands, Rebrands HiFi Offerings; Report: Music Industry Will Hit $41 Billion By 2030
#235 August 30, 2017 Bowie's Music Hits 1 Billion Streams on Spotify; TuneIn Premieres 'Indieclectic'; LANDR Gets Your Tracks on Streaming Services
#234 August 29, 2017 Pandora Partners With Fitbit; Ways YouTube Can Fix Its Problem With The Music Industry; Viberate Is the Music Marketplace of the Future
#233 August 28, 2017 Streaming Takes Aim at Its Biggest Consumer Target Yet; Country Music Struggles to Keep Up With Streaming Era
#232 August 25, 2017 Spotify, Warner Music Renew Licensing Deal; Soundcloud, Pandora & Tidal: How Will Each New CEO Fare?
#231 August 24, 2017 Why Indie Bands Go Major Label in the Streaming Era; Half of U.S. Households Are Listening to Podcasts
#230 August 23, 2017 A New Wave of Streaming Services is Putting Musicians Back in Control; Spotify, Blockchain and the Future
#229 August 22, 2017 Apple’s $1B Media Budget Might Help in Spotify Battle; Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works
#228 August 21, 2017 Music Streamers Chase an Overlooked Audience: Country Music Fans; Who Still Steals Music These Days?
#227 August 18, 2017 How NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts Took Over the Internet; Independent Music Labels are Creating Their Own Streaming Services
#226 August 17, 2017 How Spotify Playlists Create Hits; Electric Jukebox Debuts New Music Service; Can Hi-Res Music Hit the Right Note?
#225 August 16, 2017 Revolutionizing Digital Music Through Blockchain; What Exactly Is Stream-Ripping?; The Streaming Services We've Lost
#224 August 15, 2017 Streaming Royalty Payments Leap for Indie Labels; Can Programmatic Be SoundCloud’s Next Big Revenue Driver?
#223 August 14, 2017 Might Disney Add Music To Its New Streaming Service?; SoundCloud Accepts $170 Million Rescue
#222 August 11, 2017 The Rise of Curated Playlists; Jukedeck Hopes AI Can 'Democratise Music'; LiveXLive to Stream Outside Lands
#221 August 10, 2017 How Do Songs End Up On Spotify Playlists Anyway?; Royalties, Investors, and the New Music Economy
#220 August 9, 2017 The Power of Playlisting; PledgeMusic Launches Amplify; Deezer Heading to Google Home
#219 August 8, 2017 Requiem for the iPod Shuffle; Tidal Gets (Another) New CEO; 7 Blockchain Apps to Help Musicians Get Paid More Easily
#218 August 7, 2017 How Mood Music Is Changing Streaming; Neil Young Announces Interactive Online Archive; Spotify is Coming to the Xbox One
#217 August 4, 2017 Amazon Music Rolling Out Activities For Alexa Users; Sirius XM To Broadcast Phish Baker's Dozen Finale Live From The Garden
#216 August 3, 2017 Blockchain Can Make Soundcloud a Revolutionary Music Label; Why Spotify Lowered the Volume of Songs
#215 August 2, 2017 Spotify Coming After Apple With New Podcast Initiative; Sirius XM Is the Piper That Gets Paid in Digital Music
#211 July 27, 2017 Hi-Res Audio: New Standard Or Cash Grab?; The Chinese Music Business is Set to Explode
#210 July 26, 2017 Music Pushes to Innovate Beyond Streaming; Why SoundCloud Bursting Would Be A Loss For DJs, Producers
#209 July 25, 2017 Spotify, Warner Music Close to Deal; Aphex Twin Debuts Micro Streaming Service; Tiny Desk Concert Has Big Impact
#208 July 24, 2017 As Streaming Services Mature, Opportunity Emerges in the Niche; Streaming Is Taking Over Pop, but It’s Far From Flawless
#207 July 21, 2017 What's at Stake for the Future of Music Streaming; The Art of Music Classification; Spotify Adds Social Sharing to Play Buttons
#206 July 20, 2017 The Secret Hit-Making Power of the Spotify Playlist; Pandora’s Artist Marketing Platform Hits 1 Billion Impressions
#205 July 19, 2017 SiriusXM Becomes Music's New Best Frenemy; Despacito Breaks Global Streaming Record
#204 July 18, 2017 In the Age of Streaming, the Top 10 is Dead; How Apple Can Make the iPod Mighty Again
#203 July 17, 2017 How Bitcoin Technology Could Save Streaming Music Revenue; Amazon Is Now The 3rd Biggest Music Subscription Service
#202 July 14, 2017 Spotify Sweats Over Bandwidth Problem as Labels Vie for Playlist Spots; Winamp’s Woes: The New Streaming World
#201 July 13, 2017 What if Spotify's Daily Mix Was a Standalone Product?; How Losing SoundCloud Would Change Music
#200 July 12, 2017 Spotify, Sony Music Reach Deal; Fixing SoundCloud; 2017: The Year of Music Streaming
#199 July 11, 2017 5 Streaming Trends to Watch This Summer; JQBX Lets You Stream Music with Friends; Big Hits Are Now 2 Billion Streams
#198 July 10, 2017 How Losing SoundCloud Would Change Music; This DJ Has Released the First Full-Length Album Using the Ethereum Blockchain
#196 July 6, 2017 Soundcloud Could Transform Deezer’s Market Narrative; Music Report Confirms Streaming Has Become A Gusher
#195 July 5, 2017 Streaming Has Made Movie Soundtracks Better Than Ever; Amazon Promo Gets You Unlimited Music Streaming for 25¢ a Month
#194 July 3, 2017 The End Of The Streaming Holdout; Jay-Z Is Choosing His Streaming Service Over His Legacy
#193 June 30, 2017 Why 2017 is the Year of Reckoning for the Streaming Music Business; How A Music App Can Help Dish Network
#192 June 29, 2017 Why Did Taylor Swift Really Rejoin Spotify?; Smart Speakers are the Future of Audio; Biggest Myths About Music Streaming
#191 June 28, 2017 Spotify Kicks Off New Concert Series; Stationhead App Could Be Just What the Streaming Business Needs
#190 June 27, 2017 Why Spotify Should Become A Social Network; Will Pandora Survive?; What New Technology Awaits Audiophiles?
#189 June 26, 2017 The Tesla Music Service Might Not Be What Everyone Thinks; How to Use Spotify Codes
#187 June 22, 2017 Blockchains and the Future of Digital Music; Apple Said to Seek Lower Rate in New Deals With Labels
#186 June 21, 2017 Spotify ‘Sponsored Songs’ Lets Labels Pay for Plays; Apple Music Adds a $99 Annual Subscription Option
#185 June 20, 2017 Streaming Music’s Biggest Holdouts Are Caving In; How Amazon's Echo Is Making Major Labels Rethink Their Tunes
#184 June 19, 2017 How Much Bigger Will Streaming Music Get; How AI, Machine Learning are Shaping the Future of Music
#183 June 16, 2017 Hallelujah! Bob Seger’s Music Finally Arrives on Streaming Services; Spotify Passes 140 Million Users
#182 June 15, 2017 Primephonic Streaming Service Launches; Spotify, Apple Trigger a Resurgence in the Small Record Label
#181 June 14, 2017 Apple Music: $10 Billion a Year on Content is Possible; Spotify's 'Secret Genius' to Help Smooth Things Over with Songwriters
#180 June 13, 2017 Finding Your Way in a Sea of Music; Spotify Turns Your Listening Binges Into Millions for Artists
#179 June 12, 2017 Spotify’s Plan To Win The Streaming War; Stem Raises $8M to Get Music Artists Paid More Seamlessly
#178 June 9, 2017 Why Can't Music Be Played In Podcasts? Taylor Swift Returns to the World of Streaming; Pandora Gets More Time
#177 June 8, 2017 The Importance of Metadata in the Music Industry; Bonnaroo 2017 Live Stream Schedule
#173 June 2, 2017 Discogs Hits Data Milestone; Podcasts Offer Competition For $33 Billion U.S. Streaming Audio Market
#172 June 1, 2017 The Songwhip Linking Tool; Have We Reached the End of the FM Dial?; Why Spotify is Important for Artists
#171 May 31, 2017 Spotify & the 10,000 Songs Problem; Does Music Piracy Still Exist Even In The Age Of Streaming?
#170 May 30, 2017 Does Spotify Fit the WeChat Template?; How Radio Can Survive in an Era of Podcasts, Streamers
#169 May 26, 2017 Does Digital Music Sound Better Than Analog?; How Much Data Do Music Streaming Apps Use?
#168 May 25, 2017 Big Machine TV Connects with PublicVine for Streaming Platform; How Data is Transforming the Music Industry
#167 May 24, 2017 Every Spotify Session Should Be a 'Private Session'; Blockchain and Music Data’s Byzantine Problem
#166 May 23, 2017 Saving Hype Machine; Here's How Much Data Spotify Uses; PayPal Hits Pandora Over Logo Issue
#165 May 22, 2017 Spotify Rolls Out “Ad Studio” Beta for Indie Artists & Labels; Will the Music Industry Embrace Voice-Controlled Technology?
#163 May 18, 2017 It's Demo Day for Techstars Music Start-Ups; Apple Music Shifts Away From Album Exclusives
#161 May 16, 2017 Spotify, Blockchain and the Future; Sound Royalties' $100m Bet on Unlocking Artist Income; LiveXLive Acquires Wantickets
#159 May 12, 2017 Music’s Quantitative Methods; iTunes Headed to Windows Store; Study Defends YouTube's Value To Music Biz; 20 Music Startups at Midem
#158 May 11, 2017 The New eMusic; Pandora is Running Out of Options; Spotify Partners with Capital One; Drag City Announces First-Ever Streaming Releases
#157 May 10, 2017 Why the Entertainment Industry Needs Blockchain; Inside The Ongoing Quest To Get Music Curators Paid
#156 May 9, 2017 Spotify, Deezer Back Call to Regulate App Store Owners; Kobalt's Big Funding; Pandora Nabs $150 Million Investment
#155 May 8, 2017 Warner, YouTube Renew Licensing Deal; Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Not OK with Streaming; Spotify Expands in London
#154 May 5, 2017 How The Music Industry Is Putting Itself Out Of Business; New 'Purple Rain' Concert Film, Documentary Pitched to Streaming Services
#153 May 4, 2017 Analog vs. Digital; Too Many Music Blockchains? OMI Chief Says 'No‘; 'The Last Songwriter' Looks at Downside of Streaming
#152 May 3, 2017 How The Music Streaming Boom Is Growing; New App qWaqq; SiriusXM Launching Beatles Channel
#151 May 2, 2017 How Streaming Music Has Changed Music Banking; How to Use Spotify Like a Pro; VKontakte Debuts Music Streaming
#149 April 28, 2017 Can Country Music Save Pandora? TuneCore Launches Premium App; Musical.ly Connects with Apple Music
#147 April 26, 2017 How One Artist Beat the Independent Blues with Blockchain; Music Business: Biggest Growth in 20 Years
#146 April 25, 2017 Cost of Entry to Streaming Market is Stifling Innovation; Spotify Developing Music Hardware; Apple Music Delays its 'Carpool Karaoke' Show
#145 April 24, 2017 Why Can We Still Buy Music?; Neil Young's New Streaming Service; iHeartMedia; Pandora Premium
#144 April 21, 2017 Kendrick Lamar, Streaming Juggernaut; Spotify, Merlin Ink Global License Agreement; Zane Lowe, Beats 1 Turning Apple Music Into Netflix
#143 April 20, 2017 Deezer Explores User Centric Licensing; Access Music > Own It; Streaming Profitability in Asia
#142 April 19, 2017 'Spotify for Artists' Gets Upgraded; Online Music's Coming MySpace Moment; Pandora On-Demand
#141 April 18, 2017 Streaming vs. Physical; Winning in the Streaming Era; How Spotify is Wooing Brands
#139 April 14, 2017 Gene Simmons, Not Down with Streaming; Bittunes; Blockchain; NetEase; TuneCore; Deezer's New App
#138 April 13, 2017 When Artists Don't Stream; Spotify + Apple Watch; Streaming to Overtake Physical Music Sales in the UK
#137 April 12, 2017 It’s Time to End the Stigma Over Streaming Music; Why Collection Societies Want to Make Music Together
#128 March 30, 2017 Bob Seger & (Not) Streaming; Spotify Debuts ‘Traffic Jams’; The Music Industry’s Quest for Consumer Data
#125 March 27, 2017 Facebook Eyeing Music Streaming? Slacker Radio; Podcasting; Zane Lowe – Good morning! Welcome back to another week of music streaming news.
#124 March 24, 2017 Algorithms & Music Curation; Daniel Ek's ‘Brilliant Minds’ Event; Tool Might Stream
#122 March 22, 2017 Spotify's Audio Data Power; Rare Zappa Set to Stream; Warner's Streaming-Only Label; DART Aims at Music's Data Crisis
#121 March 21, 2017 Stationhead App; Spotify; Voltra & Music Ownership; Streaming Services + Classical Music
#118 March 16, 2017 Music Biz + Podcasts; YouTube Music Could Be Awesome - But!; How Snapchat Will Change The Music Industry
#116 March 14, 2017 Pandora; Digital Music Wars at SXSW; Ty Segall, No Lover of Streaming; Spotify Podcasts
#115 March 13, 2017 Music Tech; Can Blockchain Keep Songwriters From Getting Stiffed?; Disney Embraces Spotify
#114 March 10, 2017 Apple, Spotify Back to SXSW; The Cheapskate’s Guide to Music Streaming; Ed Sheeran!
#112 March 8, 2017 Is Music Streaming a Lousy Business?; Spotify Gets Audio Detection Startup; INgrooves + Data
#111 March 7, 2017 Wolfgang’s Vault in Legal Battle Over Streaming Rights; Music Audience Exchange; The Future of Audio
#106 February 28, 2017 SoundCloud Undercuts Spotify; Why Indie Artists Can't Afford to Skip Streaming
#104 February 24, 2017 Bitcoin and the Music Industry; Collecting Songs In the Digital Era – Good morning! 13 stories to wrap up the week. Have a nice weekend!
#103 February 23, 2017 How 10 Years Of The iPhone Has Changed Music Listening; Techstars Music Reveals Start-Ups
#100 February 20, 2017 Country Music May be Pandora’s Secret Weapon; Can Blockchain Make Music Great Again? – This is the 100th edition of the daily digest. A big thanks to everyone who has signed up. To start t
#99 February 17, 2017 Spoon Launch “Aura Reader” With Spotify; 5 Countries With Big Streaming Gains in 2016 – Good morning! We wrap up the week with 13 great stories from around the world of music streaming. The
#98 February 16, 2017 Streaming Exclusives are Over; Who Can Buy Spotify? – Good morning. We're closing in on our 100th edition of the daily digest, which is very exciting. Grea
#97 February 15, 2017 Next Big Opportunity For Music Streaming Services; Qantas + Spotify – Good morning! We’ve hit mid-week with a solid collection of links from around the world of music stre
#95 February 13, 2017 Chance the Rapper’s Grammys = Big Win for Streaming Music – The Grammys. They were fine. Some good, some bad... whatever that Metallica/Lady Gaga thing was. Adel
#94 February 10, 2017 Daniel Ek is a Powerful Person; Prince Streams Again – Another solid dose of music streaming news to wrap up a great week. Lots of Spotify today, plus some
#89 February 3, 2017 The Napster Comeback; Facebook + Spotify? – Good morning and happy Friday. This is by far our biggest issue - 19 stories from around the music st
#88 February 2, 2017 The Spotify IPO; The Long Game for Playlists – Good morning: Another day loaded with lots of interesting news about the music streaming business. We
#72 January 4, 2017 In Apple-Spotify World, SoundCloud Can’t Find Room; Music Business Set to Embrace Moneyball
#70 December 30, 2016 Buy Sirius XM Stock, Or Wait for Spotify?; How Streaming Music Redefined an Industry – A last spin around the business of music streaming before we say goodbye to 2016.
#67 December 23, 2016 Apple Music: Platform? Promoter? Both. – One last spin around the business of music streaming before Christmas.
#62 December 16, 2016 Independent Radio and the Challenges of Streaming Music – Wrapping up the week with a heavy dose of music streaming news. Have a nice weekend!
#60 December 14, 2016 Sans Spotify, Who Can Afford SoundCloud?; For Music, Instagram is the New Facebook
#59 December 13, 2016 Deezer Partners with Manchester United; Instagram is Gig-Goers' Favourite Social App
#56 December 8, 2016 Grammy Nominations Include Streaming-Only Music For First Time; How To Open A Record Store In The Era Of Music Streaming
#55 December 7, 2016 Streaming Won’t Kill the Radio Star; Apple, Spotify are Generating $7 Billion a Year in Streaming Music Revenue
#50 November 21, 2016 Live-Streamed George Strait Show Reaches 14m; Douban.com is King of Music Streaming in China
#48 November 16, 2016 Is Blockchain Causing a Music Revolution?; Tech Firms Want Trump to Tackle Their Digital Music Gripes
#47 November 15, 2016 WPP, Spotify Forge Global Partnership; In China, One Music Website Is Always No. 1
#46 November 11, 2016 Songkick Announces Shazam Partnership; Spotify Swims Up'stream' In CD-Obsessed Japan
#43 November 1, 2016 What if Spotify Turned Daily Mix Into a Standalone Product?; Apple Music Price Drop 'Under Serious Consideration,' Sources Say
#41 October 26, 2016 Philadelphia Orchestra Debuts Streaming Service; Spotify: Free Service Is for Users Who Can’t Afford to Pay
#40 October 25, 2016 Universal Music Group Kicks Off VR App for Live Concerts; Stashimi Music Streaming App Targets Avid Fans
#39 October 24, 2016 The Future of Music Streaming Lies in China’s Small Cities; VRTIFY Creates A New Space For Music Sharing
#38 October 20, 2016 Imogen Heap Sees Blockchain as the Music Industry's Savior; Inside Vevo's Plan To Beat YouTube
#36 October 17, 2016 Accelerating the Future of Music; Bob Dylan's Spotify Streams Up 500% After Nobel Win
#32 October 10, 2016 How Blockchain Can Change the Music Industry; 8tracks Shifting To Subscription Model
#30 October 6, 2016 Once Enemies of Record Labels, Spotify and Apple are Now Spinning Profits for Them
#26 September 30, 2016 iHeart Aiming For Casual Music Fans (Let the Music Nerds Have Spotify!) – 17 big links to wrap up a most interesting week of music streaming news. Have a nice weekend!
#20 September 22, 2016 Deezer Debuts Family Streaming Plan | SupaPass: The “Fair Trade” Music Streaming Startup?
#18 September 20, 2016 Tinder + Spotify | iHeartMedia | Music Industry Finally Making $$ on Streaming
#16 September 16, 2016 Have Spotify and Apple Music Just Won The Streaming Wars? – We wrap up the week with a BIG collection of interesting news from around the music streaming busines
#12 September 12, 2016 Twitter and Music Discovery; Indie Musicians Should Focus On Podcasts, Playlists
#11 September 9, 2016 Has Apple Lost Track of the Future of Music? – Wrapping up the week with a heavy duty list of music streaming news. Have a nice weekend!
#9 September 7, 2016 What to Expect from Apple Music; Spotify May Restrict Free Streaming in New Deal
#8 September 6, 2016 Do Streaming Services Now Compete with Labels? | Berklee’s Open Music Initiative
#6 September 2, 2016 Lyor Cohen Does Not Believe in Exclusives | Orfium's Music Streaming Mission – Have a nice and safe holiday weekend!
#4 August 31, 2016 Questions: Can Spotify Live on $10 a Month?; Just How Well Is Streaming Really Doing? – Today's edition features not one Frank Ocean headline! Whew!
#1 August 26, 2016 The Summer That Streaming Took Over | Apple Music Fest: No Stream for Non-Subscribers
