Pink Floyd Release a Dozen Live Albums; Update to the Apple Music App; Spotify's New Podcast Hub in Downtown L.A.

The 12 LPs were added to streaming services this week with no prior announcement, spanning the years 1970 to 1972.

The shape of music/Web3 tooling is more exciting and diverse than ever before. New platforms are launching weekly to help artists leverage NFTs, social tokens and DAO infrastructure to create new economic models around creativity and fan engagement.

To achieve this, the company has empowered more than a million artists worldwide to distribute 10 million+ tracks to listeners.

Music creation and distribution has been democratized, or one could even say, commoditized.

Developers testing the macOS 12.2 beta have noticed an updated Apple Music app that should run better when you’re streaming songs using Apple’s subscription-based service. You can install the public beta and try it out now.

Spotify opens a downtown L.A. campus with 18 podcast studios as it expands its audio and video programming.

As we look forward, despite the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, we continue to see a promising outlook for the music industry and our Catalogues.

A look at the key themes and trends (as well as the deals) that defined the year and that will directly shape what happens in 2022 and beyond.

Listeners will be able to submit their star ratings of podcasts, following the ranking system from Apple.

As they chase a wildly lucrative market with their new Christmas albums, Gary Barlow, Jamie Cullum, Leona Lewis and more explain the financial – and emotional – pull of a seasonal hit.

We chart the impact of the Roland SP-404 with insights from Sonic Boom’s Pete Kember, Casper Clausen, Sarah The !llstrumentalist, Voka Gentle, Katie Harkin and George Clanton.

Apple Music says the track, which officially dropped earlier this month, has become the most-streamed R&B song by a female artist within its first week.