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How Google Music wants to take on Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody

How Google Music wants to take on Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Google launched its own music subscription service Wednesday. Currently, it’s not very different from all the other services out there. So how does it want to compete?
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Google Just Launched A Grenade At Spotify — And It Just Might Work

Google Just Launched A Grenade At Spotify — And It Just Might Work | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
With the launch of All Access, Google joins the streaming music business. Why the giant could disrupt the space dominated by Spotify and Rdio.
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Apple's iRadio talks stall as Google rushes to license new music service

Apple's iRadio talks stall as Google rushes to license new music service | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Apple's effort to license a proposed online radio service, which the press has dubbed iRadio, is being stymied by at least one of the major music companies, multiple industry sources have told T...
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In Japan, headphones detect user’s mood and play music accordingly

In Japan, headphones detect user’s mood and play music accordingly | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Mico headphones monitor user's brain waves and select songs that match their mood.
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Twitter Activity Will Affect Vampire Weekend's Concert Live Stream

Twitter Activity Will Affect Vampire Weekend's Concert Live Stream | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Indie rock band Vampire Weekend will share new music Sunday during a concert at the Tribeca Film Festival, and fans not at the show can watch it on YouTube.
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Twitter’s New Music App Launches Friday

Twitter’s New Music App Launches Friday | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it

Next up on the jukebox — Twitter Music.

The microblogging service plans to launch its new, standalone music application on Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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The future of music, according to Spotify's Daniel Ek

The future of music, according to Spotify's Daniel Ek | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Your home's tunes controlled by a wave of the hand or a voice command? It could happen, and the big-thinking Swede believes his music service could be the soundtrack to that very plugged-in vision. Read this article by Paul Sloan on CNET News.
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Streaming Music is Gaining on Traditional Radio Among Younger Music Listeners

Streaming Music is Gaining on Traditional Radio Among Younger Music Listeners | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Streaming Music is Gaining on Traditional Radio Among Younger Music Listeners
Felipe Ferracini Paniago's comment, April 16, 3:18 PM
I have a radio show on a FM on Brasil, that now is hosted online via mixcloud, so we can reach more listeners. www.mixclooud.com/rota_91
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Apple reportedly closing in on 'iRadio' deals, still aiming for summer launch

CNET takes a look at some of the recent talks between Apple and the record labels recording Apple's plans for a streaming, radio-like service. According to the report, Apple is working to strike de...
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A Roaming Network For Subscription Music Services

A Roaming Network For Subscription Music Services | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Back in the early days of the ATM machine, you could only transact on ATMs operated by your bank. If you were a Chase customer, you needed to find a Chase ATM to take cash out. That, of course, was...
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Top labels say US music sales fall slightly in 2012

Top labels say US music sales fall slightly in 2012 | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
The music industry generated $7.1 billion in sales in the United States last year, down 0.9 percent from 2011, according to a statement released by the Recording Industry Association of America...
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Microsoft, Spotify and The Echo Nest launch Mixshape, an engaging tool for ordering playlists

Microsoft, Spotify and The Echo Nest launch Mixshape, an engaging tool for ordering playlists | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Microsoft, Spotify and music intelligence firm The Echo Nest have joined forces to create Mixshape, a visual tool that automatically sorts playlists based on the properties and moods ...
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10% of Shazam's 10m daily song tags turn into purchases

10% of Shazam's 10m daily song tags turn into purchases | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Mobile app Shazam has long been one of the biggest drivers of music download sales. Now the company has provided latest stats quantifying its impact.
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Merlin: iTunes Remains Biggest Digital Destination; Spotify + Amazon 2nd And 3rd; Streaming Still Just An Opening Act

Merlin: iTunes Remains Biggest Digital Destination; Spotify + Amazon 2nd And 3rd; Streaming Still Just An Opening Act | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
On the heels of Google wading into the music streaming waters with its Google Play Music All Access service, with a $10 fee for all-you-can-eat streamed tracks, the indie music agency Merlin has today published results of a recent survey of its...
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What will Google's music subscription service look like?

What will Google's music subscription service look like? | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Helienne Lindvall: A YouTube subscription service without ads may be tied in with its Spotify-like audio-service
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How People Are Consuming Music

How People Are Consuming Music | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it

The kind folks at The Music Bed have provided TMV with the exclusive on this Infographic outlining how people currently consumer music across all key demographics.

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The iTunes influence, part one: How Apple changed the face of the music marketplace

The iTunes influence, part one: How Apple changed the face of the music marketplace | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it

"On April 28th, the iTunes Store basked in a milestone 10th birthday. Two years before its 2003 launch (as the iTunes Music Store), Apple introduced the iTunes client as a desktop music management program and implemented it as the device manager for the first iPod later in 2001. In those two years, Apple laid the groundwork for what can reasonably be called the iTunes era of music."

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iTunes turning 10 years old, still owns 63% of music download business

iTunes turning 10 years old, still owns 63% of music download business | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Last year, 44 million Americans bought at least one song or album from iTunes. This month, the digital music store that changed the way we buy music will celebrate its 10th birthday.
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Live Concert Streaming Platform EVNTLIVE Begins Offering Invitations

Live Concert Streaming Platform EVNTLIVE Begins Offering Invitations | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Live concert streaming platform EVNTLIVE begins taking requests for invitations to beta access.
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What Does a Record Label Mean to You in 2013? — World of Music

What Does a Record Label Mean to You in 2013? — World of Music | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Outside of my hotel at SXSW in 2012 (and again
in 2013) was a six-story stage protruding out of a small parking lot with
Doritos branding al…
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Concert where attendees decide the ticket price upon leaving

Concert where attendees decide the ticket price upon leaving | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Spanish promoters, Caravana de Emerxencia, let punters choose their price at the end of the event.
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UK's online music royalties generate more cash than radio for the first time

The UK's Performing Right Society has announced that the cash generated from online music licensing has surpassed that of radio for the first time. The
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State Of The Music Licensing Industry 2013

State Of The Music Licensing Industry 2013 | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it

The Music Licensing Directory www.musiclicensingdirectory.com has just released an Infographic report providing detailed analysis of the current state of the Music Licensing Industry. The report provides insightful data on the global multi-billion dollar music licensing industry, and highlights the prolific use of retitling amongst music licensing companies, as well as the size of the industry and current trends and roles within music licensing.


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Pierre Priot's curator insight, March 27, 5:38 AM

Comprehensive infographics about the state of music licensing. If big figures make you unconfortable, skip this one.

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LG to add Spotify’s music streaming service to all of its upcoming smart media devices

LG to add Spotify’s music streaming service to all of its upcoming smart media devices | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
LG has revealed today that Spotify’s on-demand music streaming service will be supported on all of its smart media products released this year, including Blu-ray players and Blu-ray ...
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Next Round In The Google-Amazon Deathmatch: Streaming Music

Next Round In The Google-Amazon Deathmatch: Streaming Music | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Amazon and Google are both in talks to launch music subscription services, opening yet another front in their increasingly testy rivalry.
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