Subscribe to our newsletter By subscribing, you agree with Revue’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that Platform & Stream will receive your email address. May 6, 2022 Qobuz Expands Into Latin America, Portugal; Spotify to Discontinue Stations App; UnitedMasters Debuts Beat Marketplace View online Hi-Res music service Qobuz expands into Latin America and Portugal Qobuz is now available in 25 countries. www.musicbusinessworldwide.com Spotify to Discontinue Stations App Spotify Stations, Spotify’s lightweight listening app that offers easy access to curated playlists, is shutting down. platformstream.medium.com Spotify tests on-platform pre-saves with Florence + The Machine Spotify is testing a new feature that will enable listeners to ‘pre-save’ albums in the weeks before they are released. musically.com TikTok Pulse: Program Will Share Ad Revenue With Popular Creators TikTok Pulse will let top creators get a cut of adv revenue and promises to let advertisers reach the cream of the short-form video crop. variety.com UnitedMasters, valued at $550m, just launched its own beat marketplace Steve Stoute’s UnitedMasters launches Beat Exchange, a platform for buying and selling beats. www.musicbusinessworldwide.com Quincy Jones’ OneOf teams with Warner-backed virtual concerts firm Wave to launch NFT for metaverse artist Teflon Sega Metaverse-born musical artist and producer’ Teflon Sega has over 356,000 monthly Spotify listeners. www.musicbusinessworldwide.com A New Study Confirms the Obvious: Major Labels Control Spotify Playlists A Spotify playlist study has found that major labels (UMG, Warner, Sony) account for most new songs added to curated playlists. www.digitalmusicnews.com Spotify's podcast tech chief is leaving the company Michael Mignano joined Spotify when it bought Anchor in 2019.. www.engadget.com DEF LEPPARD To Play Invitation-Only Concert At Whisky A Go Go For SiriusXM Listeners SiriusXM announced today that legendary rock band DEF LEPPARD will play a special invitation-only concert in Los Angeles at the Whisky A Go Go for SiriusXM listeners. blabbermouth.net KPOP.FLEX, ‘Europe’s Largest K-Pop Festival,’ Offers a Global Live Stream Europe’s largest K-Pop festival in Frankfurt called KPOP.FLEX will stream to fans across the globe on May 29. Here are the details. www.digitalmusicnews.com Arcade Fire: Streaming makes music disposable Bands like U2 may have struggled if they had started out during streaming era says singer Win Butler. www.bbc.com ✉️ Send story ideas & feedback to: jeff@platformandstream.com ⭐️ Support Platform & Stream by sponsoring an issue sent to our 2500+ subscribers every weekday. 😀 Have a nice day! Did you enjoy this issue? Yes No Platform & Stream @PlatformStream The Best Music Streaming News In order to unsubscribe, click here. If you were forwarded this newsletter and you like it, you can subscribe here. Created with Revue by Twitter. www.platformandstream.com Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter By subscribing, you agree with Revue’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that Platform & Stream will receive your email address.
