People’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ serenaded some lucky fans, for free, with Christmas music.
John Legend Wows at Union Station Pop-Up Performance
NBC 4 Los Angeles
NBC 4 Los Angeles
Sway Calloway Partners With SiriusXM And Pandora For Inaugural Sway Fest 2019
AllHipHop News
Shirley Ju
Sway Calloway has been known to be one of the most well-respected hip-hop journalists and radio personalities to ever do it. Now, he’s taking his efforts to the next level: a whole festival under his name. For the first time, he will be teaming up with his home team SiriusXM and Pandora to launch the inaugural Sway Fest 2019.
More Than Three-Fourths of US Internet Users Are Now Streaming Music, Says Study
Billboard
Colin Stutz
More than three fourths of the American internet-using population over the age of 13 is now streaming music. That’s according to MusicWatch’s audiocensus Q2 2019 report on U.S. music consumption and listening habits, shared exclusively with Billboard in advance of its publication.
Pandora now lets you share music and podcasts to your Instagram Stories
TechCrunch
Sarah Perez
Pandora today announced a new integration with Instagram that will allow users to share to their Instagram Story their favorite music and podcasts.
How a new law aimed at streaming music brought the industry and Congress together
CBS News
Common Ground
In Washington, the Music Modernization Act aims to help by streamlining music licensing and closing a loophole in copyright law so it better fits the digital era. President Trump signed the landmark bill in October 2018, after it passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate.
SiriusXM Adds 174,000 Satellite Radio, 64,000 Pandora Subs in Second Quarter
Hollywood Reporter
Georg Szalai
Audio entertainment giant SiriusXM, the home of Howard Stern, on Tuesday reported continued growth in its satellite radio and Pandora subscribers.
Pandora Launches In-House Digital Consultancy, Studio Resonate
Music Business Worldwide
Murray Stassen
Pandora has launched an in-house digital consultancy called Studio Resonate. Studio Resonate provides advertisers with audio creative development, sonic branding and strategy services, as well as visual design, rich media production, web / mobile experiences, and live activations.
Goldman Sachs says 1.15bn people will pay for music streaming by 2030, as it ups industry forecast
The investment bank’s ‘Music In The Air’ dossier, from August 2017, forecast a booming future for record labels, and set in motion a series of escalating valuations for Universal Music Group which have since hit $50bn (in the case of JP Morgan). In that report, Goldman forecast that trade revenues from paid streaming would reach $28bn by the year 2030, with the overall recorded music industry pulling in a whopping $41bn in the same 12 months.
Pandora expands its music-and-podcasts product Pandora Stories with help from SiriusXM’s guests
TechCrunch
Sarah Perez
Pandora’s integration with new owner SiriusXM continues today, as the music streaming service will now benefit from the numerous SiriusXM guests and artists who come through its New York studios on a regular basis. Now, those guests’ interviews will contribute to Pandora Stories — the recently launched product that combines music and podcasts in a new format.
New Pandora Student and Military Plans Offer Premium Features at Special Discounted Rates
Pandora
Pandora
Pandora Premium is our everything bagel, our first-class cabin, our Wonka golden ticket to millions of songs and thousands of podcasts you can listen to however and whenever you want. And now we’re making all of Pandora’s Premium features even more accessible for students and members of the military with our new discounted Pandora Student and Pandora Military Plans.