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Billboard and Pandora today (Jan. 30) announced an exclusive agreement that will add influential Pandora streaming data to the Billboard Hot 100, the world’s preeminent songs chart.
As the lights of the strip glimmer below, Pandora co-founder/CEO Tim Westergren stands before two dozen advertising executives in a 61st floor suite in the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. It’s the first day of 2017’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and he’s pitching Pandora’s new direction.
A large swath of the music business, including all three major labels (Universal Music Group, Sony Music and the Warner Music Group), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and music platforms such as Pandora, Rhapsody/Napster and HD Tracks, all in concert with the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), today announced their support for studio-quality hi-res…
Welcome to BuzzAngle Music’s 2017 report on U.S. music consumption. 2017 saw a significant increase in overall consumption, an outstanding 12.8% over 2016 that marks the third year in a row with increasing growth.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on Wednesday (Dec. 21) released its annual “notorious markets” report listing the online and physical markets that most threaten America’s creative industries and in it specifically highlighted the “emerging trend” of stream ripping.
Beyoncé made history with her album Lemonade, which was streamed a record 115 million times in its first week. Just one week later, Drake broke that record when his album Views was streamed 245 million times. The age of streaming music has arrived in full force, displacing both physical sales (e.g., CDs) and downloaded songs (e.g., iTunes).
The way we listen to music is changing fast, and the business of music is struggling to keep up. Constantly shifting business models affect performers and songwriters, producers and publishers, promoters and live music venues. As streaming music has taken hold in the music ecosystem, a larger audience is listening to more music by more…
Pandora exec calls for changes in music copyright protections: Steve Bene, the streaming company’s general counsel, says that certain policies in the music industry need to be updated to ensure artists’ work is clearly protected. “A prime example … is the way the law treats heritage artists. For more than four decades, recordings by musical greats like…
“We believe in a music economy that works for everyone — artists and fans, music venues and promoters,” said Katie Peters, Pandora’s director of government relations. Pandora owns Ticketfly, a platform that allows first party vendors to sell tickets to consumers. “And we applaud final passage of the BOTS Act as an excellent first step…
Pandora has pulled the curtain off of its all-you-can-eat streaming service, called Pandora Premium, expected to be released in the first quarter of next year.