The streaming platforms continue to iterate playlist strategies and, at last, differentiate. But where are the game changers? How much more longevity do playlists have, now that podcasts and smart speakers are gaining traction?
The music industry is embracing a new standard called MEAD (Media Enrichment And Description) for communicating metadata–information about music that will make it easier to describe and find.
Spotify is benefitting from Snap’s desire to make Snapchat bigger in India, where it faces powerful competition in the form of TikTok. AR lenses is (for now) one area that differentiates Snapchat from that rival.
Farias was a panellist at the Music Week Tech Summit together with O2, where he celebrated the fact that “more and more independent artists are completely self-sustained”.
It’s clear that, by the numbers at least, the business of classical music has been in a heap of trouble for some time; what is less clear is why. Pundits from different corners of the arts world have no shortage of explanations or theories about what has most contributed to the genre’s decline in cultural relevancy.
Australian artist Toni Watson - aka Tones and I - is riding high with her track ‘Dance Monkey’, which started as a viral buzz track but has flowered into a bona-fide global hit.
