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YouTube Music and Premium hit 80 mn paid subscribers
It is 30 million subscribers more from the 50 million the video streaming platform announced last year. "YouTube's twin engine of revenue -- subscriptions and ads -- is the real deal," said Lyor Cohen, global head of Music, YouTube.
Spotify says Apple is destroying its audiobook store by 'choking competition'
Apple's limitations are harmful to both creators and users, as it continues to prevent Spotify and other applications from offering a seamless user experience, the company said in a blog post. According to the platform, Apple's restrictions are "far too complicated and confusing," and they change "arbitrarily, making them impossible to interpret."
Apple Music hits 100 mn songs driven by human curation
The company said that 21 years on from the invention of iTunes and the debut of the original iPod, "we've gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music". "It's phenomenal growth by any metric. The entire history, present, and future of music is at your fingertips or voice command," said Rachel Newman, Apple Music's global head of editorial.
Apple's Shazam app turns 20, surpasses 70 billion song recognitions
For more than 225 million global monthly users, to 'Shazam' is to discover something new, Apple said in a statement. Shazam was acquired by Apple for reportedly $400 million in 2018. According to the company, Drake is the most 'Shazamed' artist of all time with over 350 million Shazams across songs the artist has led or featured on.
boAt leads neckband market with 25.7% share in Q1 in India: Report
According to market research firm Counterpoint, India's neckband market shipments declined 13 per cent year-over-year (YoY) in the first quarter of 2022 but grew 34 per cent YoY in 2021. "Half of the total neckband market was taken over by the top three brands in Q1 2022. boAt captured the first position due to its significant presence in the lower price segment (Rs 1,000-Rs 2,000)," Senior Research Analyst Anshika Jain said in a statement.
boAt unveils new affordable smartwatch in India
The boAt Primia smartwatch will be available for an introductory price of Rs 3,999 for the first 1,000 customers on Amazon and the boAt Website. Post this, the watch will be available at Rs 4,499. "Taking it a notch higher with the 'Bluetooth Calling' option, boAt Primia smartwatch is the first of its kind from the house of boAt," the company said in a statement.
NFT of SP Balasubrahmanyam's last unreleased work out
Legendary singer S.P. Balasubrahmanyam's last unreleased song will be auctioned on April 9 as a Non Fungible Token (NFT) on the entertainment platform Diginoor. This is also the first time ever that the buyer will be transferred 51 percent of the copyright, giving the NFT holder the right to make the song available to the larger public, adapt or reproduce it in any manner.
Epic Games to acquire music marketplace Bandcamp
Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced plans to acquire the online music platform Bandcamp. Bandcamp is an online music store and community where fans can discover, connect with and directly support the independent musicians they love.The company said that Bandcamp will play an important role in Epic's vision to build out a creator marketplace ecosystem for content, technology, games, art, music and more.
Spotify acquires 2 podcast tech companies Chartable, Podsights
With the acquisition of Podsights, Spotify will be able to help advertisers understand how podcast ads drive actions that matter to their businesses. "We believe the opportunity for digital audio and podcast remains significant. With these acquisitions, we're taking a big step in upleveling digital audio measurement and insights to help the entire industry scale to new heights," the company said in a statement.
Apple Music cuts free trial period from 3 months to 1
Three years after it first appeared to be planning to shrink its free trial period, Apple Music has finally reduced it to one month, reports AppleInsider. New users get one month's free trial, instead of the previous three months, although buyers of AirPods and other devices still get six months. Apple Music's terms and conditions on the official site now make no mention of a specific period.
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