Can TikTok Rival MTV's Heyday for Gen-Z?; Spotify Finally Coming to South Korea; Exploring Les Paul's Radio Shown Archives

The short-form video app cemented its status as a discovery tool for fresh talent and slept-on hits this year — and is forcing labels into reactive marketing.

Spotify, the world’s leading streaming brand, is ready to make a long-overdue entry into South Korea.

Mark Smotroff finds music history gold streaming free on the web.

For the first time in the history of Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart, nine of the top 10 are holiday titles.

If you’re a music lover, chances are you’ll have used streaming services of some kind. Music streaming accounts for more than half of the global music industry’s revenue in the UK, bringing in more than £1 billion in the last year.

“Over 176 different songs surpassed 1 billion video views as TikTok sounds,” is one of them, adding that the top 10 songs alone saw more than 60bn views from 125m videos posted by TikTok users.

Andy Mooney, Fender CEO, joins ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss the company’s business during the pandemic, the company’s new app designed for guitar lessons and the new users the business is seeing.

Spotify holds the monopoly on music streaming. However, without touring, artists are solely relying on their streaming revenue. For many artists, this has highlighted why Spotify has a sustainability problem.

Lazarus, the 2016 musical featuring songs by David Bowie, will stream on Bowie’s birthday, January 8th, with encores on the 9th and 10th.

The community focus of Audius looks set to give the music industry a much-needed shake-up.

NetEase Cloud Music announced a new “Music Talent” initiative to leverage its competitive edge as a community to connect, inspire and engage quality content creators to cater to the country’s booming music industry.

One of the undisputed winners of 2020’s work-from-home transition has been Spotify, and it’s not just because of all the new Taylor Swift albums and addictive true-crime podcasts.

Liz Gateley will transition from her role as a podcast executive at Spotify to a creative consultant with the audio streaming giant next year, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.