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Universal Music UK expects big things for mobile in 2013

Universal Music UK expects big things for mobile in 2013 | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Several members of Universal Music UK's digital team have been brainstorming their expectations for 2013, laying out some of their ideas in a blog post.
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MusiXmatch’s Google Glass App Will Put Real-Time Lyrics In Your Face

MusiXmatch’s Google Glass App Will Put Real-Time Lyrics In Your Face | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it

"In fact, MusiXmatch is already working on this app, or “Glassware” in the Google parlance, which will do at least two things for those wearing the device"

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Online concert venue grants access to sold out shows

EVNTLIVE is an online concert venue that enables users watch a customizable live feed of shows with friends.
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Yap Music offers the simplicity of Instagram as an iPhone music discovery app

Yap Music offers the simplicity of Instagram as an iPhone music discovery app | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Music apps and services often feel overbearing because they try to offer a multitude of features simultaneously. On-demand streaming, Pandora-style Internet radio stations, collaborative ...
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Spotify Charts launch to showcase top 50 songs each week, with play-counts now available for all songs

Spotify Charts launch to showcase top 50 songs each week, with play-counts now available for all songs | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Spotify has launched its very own charts, as it looks to showcase the top 50 songs by region.

Spotify Charts constitute both the top 50 most listened to (the Spotify 50) and the ...
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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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Subscriptions Rising: Four Million People Pay Deezer for Music

Subscriptions Rising: Four Million People Pay Deezer for Music | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
Nuno Costa Moreira's insight:
Deezer has over four million paying subscribers.It also has 25 million tracks, which is five million more than Spotify says it has (not all of these are likely available in all territories, in the case of both services).Deezer has 10 million monthly active users. Spotify, on the other hand, saysit has 24 million.
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With downloads dwindling, music publishers throw a roadblock into Apple's iRadio plans

For years, when it came to driving negotiations with internet music services over licensing, the top record labels were the locomotive and the publishers were the caboose. If the labels licensed...
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A month after launch, have we forgotten about Twitter #Music?

A month after launch, have we forgotten about Twitter #Music? | The Shape of Music to Come | Scoop.it
A little over a month ago, Twitter launched #Music, its take on what a truly social music discovery service might look like. It was strategic, leveraging Twitter's enormous user base and vast...
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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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