On Sunday, the once-popular genetic testing service 23andMe with over 15 million customers announced that it has voluntarily declared for bankruptcy. While a press release from the company states that there will be “no changes […]
Newly released vinyl sales data is raising questions about a possible plateau. Photo Credit: Myko Makhlai We’ve been hearing about the streaming plateau for some time. But after nearly two decades of consecutive growth for […]
Denver’s Señor Bear, one of hundreds of venues tracked by Audoo’s recent song-tracking pilot. Theoretically, performing rights organizations (PROs) track and tally every song played in public and streaming platforms – then dole out the […]
Photo Credit: Solen Feyissa A South Korean data protection regulator says that China’s DeepSeek genAI chatbot is sending data to TikTok owner ByteDance. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) announced it would temporarily suspend new […]
Music industry funding grew year over year in January 2025, but fell short of January 2023’s total. Photo Credit: Giorgio Trovato Thanks in large part to another sizable contribution from the catalog sub-sector, music industry […]
Madrid, where AI concert analytics startup Breakevent is based. Photo Credit: Quique Olivar Breakevent, a startup developing AI-powered concert analytics software, has scored an over $908,000 (€876,000) funding round. Madrid-headquartered Breakevent took to social media […]
YouTube TV viewership grew once again in the U.S. during December 2024, according to newly released consumption data. Photo Credit: Muhammad Asyfaul Look out, Spotify – YouTube expanded its TV viewing share over other streaming […]
Spotify’s non-bundled, music-only subscriptions virtually disappeared in 2024, according to DMN Pro’s latest intel. But that’s a Spotify feature, not a Spotify bug. Here’s what the latest data shows across all plan types and tiers […]
Photo Credit: Charmetric In their latest 2024 Year In Music Report, Chartmetric has revealed some interesting data insights into the critical trends shaping the music industry. Over 11.1 million artists and 126 million tracks are […]
2024 music industry funding trends are providing valuable insights as 2025 ramps up. Photo Credit: Kelly Sikkema On top of bringing close to $5 billion in music industry capital announcements, 2024 delivered several noteworthy funding […]
River Thames as seen from London. Photo Credit: Georg Eiermann Thanks in large part to continued streaming and vinyl growth, the UK music industry generated all-time-high recorded revenue during 2024, according to newly released data. […]
With recent news that one of the most popular brands of routers in the United States may soon be banned over cyber security risks, and the FBI warning Americans about a massive data breach through […]
Following indications of a subscriber growth plateau, new data is pointing to an outright decline in stateside Spotify Individual subscribers. Photo Credit: Kojo Kwarteng Following numerous signs of a paid-streaming plateau, new data is shedding […]
Full year-over-year data is revealing tepid US-based premium subscriber gains for Spotify, including near-zero growth and recent declines in the all-important Individual Premium subscriber category. . . You are trying to view our premium content. […]
Photo Credit: Colm Doyle Spotify is cracking down on the information developers can access through its API, joining other tech companies like Reddit and YouTube. The crackdown removes most recommendation features from third-party apps. Here’s […]
The Senate side of the U.S. Capitol. Photo Credit: Scrumshus Should generative AI developers be required to disclose the protected materials upon which their models trained? At least one member of Congress believes so, and […]
YouTube, having dethroned Spotify in the podcasting realm, now ranks second in overall U.S. TV usage, according to Nielsen. Photo Credit: Javier Miranda Spotify is plowing ahead with a video expansion, but as podcasting continues […]
Photo Credit: Tung Nguyen Understanding how your audience interacts with your music is essential to helping grow a fan base of dedicated superfans. Too Lost offers advanced analytics for drilling down data by source—so you […]
Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board has fined Twitch 2 million lira over a data breach that happened three years ago. Back in 2021, Twitch suffered a massive data leak that affected thousands of streamers and […]
Here’s a hard, inflation-adjusted look at the actual state of recording music sales in 2024 – and where things might go next. Somewhere, in the gigantic and conflicting jumble of music industry statistics being bandied […]