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While musical platforms like Spotify, YouTube and Vevo share lists featuring the most-consumed, most-watched and most-streamed songs, albums, artists and videos of the year every December, online radio giant Pandora opts to go in a slightly different direction to celebrate the biggest tunes of the past 12 months.
Pandora is stepping up its outreach to country music fans with a new “digital country music festival” campaign that will feature concerts, station takeovers and other exclusive content, all as part of an effort to grow what is already the service’s second biggest genre audience and, of course, to attract more paid subscribers.
US record labels and others in the music industry are considering launching their own charts as an alternative to the iconic Billboard lists, according to multiple sources. The discussions come at a time when Billboard has come under fire for rumored changes in chart calculations that could include YouTube plays.
Pandora, in partnership with Real Industry, today announced the launch of its PandoraChallenge: Music & Social Impact program at five universities across the United States.
The rocker-turned-digital music executive talks about his musical roots and his plans to be a “stabilizing force” for his new company.
The show, “Springsteen on Broadway,” will run five nights a week, Tuesday to Saturday, at the Walter Kerr, the rose-and-gold-decorated jewel box on West 48th Street that last housed the short-lived “Amélie: A New Musical.”
The program (AMP), one of the first of its kind in the streaming world and a frequent talking point from recently departed company co-founder and former CEO Tim Westergren, enables artists to learn about their audience via listener data and make better decisions about where to advertise or tour.
BIG SEAN, MACHINE GUN KELLY, NOAH CYRUS and STARLEY will topline PANDORA’s SOUNDS LIKE YOU SUMMER concert at the L.A. MEMORIAL COLISEUM on JULY 29th. There will also be special performances by hosts JACK & JACK and sets by DJ MUSTARD.
A New York Hip Hop icon and two of the city’s up-and-coming emcees are taking part in Pandora’s “Sounds Like You: NYC” event.
Taylor Swift is getting back together with a few of her famous exes, including Spotify and Pandora.