Rock ‘n’ Roll Meets E-Commerce; Spotify Updates Mini Player, Adds 'What’s New' Feed; Soundwhale, Jamendo to Boost Artist Collaboration

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Brazilian mega retailer Magazine Luiza—known in its home country simply as Magalu—is pioneering a new type of shopping, s-commerce.

In a new report, Spotify is spotted testing a new mini player UI redesign that brings more rounded corners and punchy colors.

A blue dot will show when there’s new content in the feed, and artists and podcasts can be added by tapping the “Follow” button on their respective pages.

Soundwhale, a remote collaboration platform for audio post and music production, has joined forces with independent music and licensing platform Jamendo.

Exec joins Ingrooves after spending the past two years teaching and consulting in the music business.

Alibaba’s music streaming service could be coming back to life after Beijing deprives Tencent of music streaming exclusivity.

A Twitter account devoted to rounding up the weirdest playlists on Spotify proves the streaming platform is a comedy goldmine.

New MRC Data report shows how catalog has increased its dominance over new music in 2021.

Musicians, record labels and listeners could all be affected by sweeping changes to the music streaming industry.

Check out Soundfly’s new course with instrumental hip-hop producer, RJD2: From Samples to Songs. Sign up and learn from RJ himself how to write and arrange music drawing on the power of sampling records and a collage-based mindset.

Instagram is changing - and they’re letting their users learn about it first-hand.

‘Culture Next’ is Spotify Advertising’s annual study into the listening habits and preferences of these groups, aged 15-25 and 26-40, respectively.

Audioshake launched earlier this year with a technology for deconstructing music tracks into stems. Now it is launching a service specifically for labels, publishers and other companies to use the tech to “create instrumentals and stems on demand”.

The global livestream on August 25 will see Tricky take home the Pioneer Award in association with FUGA. The trip hop legend will also perform at the event.

Are streaming services tough platforms for rock bands? Try telling that to Italian group Måneskin, who are currently the 14th biggest artist in Spotify.