Digital Media Digest: March 2020
What the death of iTunes says about our digital habits; A music artist says Apple Music pays her 4 times what Spotify does per stream; Top of the flops: is streaming rendering the charts obsolete?; Now you can listen to Philadelphia Orchestra performances free on demand; New media gets new audiences into an old art form; RNZ board backs down, Concert to stay on FM; TikTok revenue surges 310% to $50MM in Q4; SiriusXM celebrates 34.9 million subscribers — but won’t disclose Pandora numbers; US-based music streams cross 1 trillion in 2019, up 25% over 2018; Amazon claims more than 55 million music streaming users; YouTube has more than 20 million paying subscribers — music subscriber numbers remain elusive; Spotify reaches 124 million premium subscribers — but quarterly losses top $85 million; Apple music has been quietly expanding its preferred distributors list; YouTube is testing ‘Applause,’ a way for viewers to directly donate to creators; Time for a DMCA overhaul? congressional hearings commence on Capitol Hill; RPO research shows increased interest in orchestral music among young people; End of an era — CD Baby is shutting down its online music store; Spotify steps up its concert listings with resident advisor partnership; 2019’s US-Based streaming music market was larger than the entire recorded music market in 2017