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Streaming music report sheds light on battle between Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Google
Spotify was the largest music streaming service with a market share of 31 percent, with Apple Music and Amazon Music in second and joint third with market shares of 15 and 13 percent respectively, according to Midia Research.
Spotifys still way ahead
Market share for the worlds largest music streaming services.
Image: Midia Research
Spotify was the largest music streaming service in the world as of the second quarter o… [+2562 chars]
Jon Porter
2022-01-20 13:28:25
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Warner Music Group is building a 'musical theme park' in the metaverse
Perhaps taking inspiration from blockbuster music experiences in Fortnite
, Warner Music Group is creating a performance venue in the metaverse. It's teaming up
with The Sandbox to create a "hybrid of musical theme park and concert venue" on the platform.S…
Perhaps taking inspiration from blockbuster music experiences in Fortnite
, Warner Music Group is creating a performance venue in the metaverse. It's teaming up
with The Sandbox to create a "hybri… [+843 chars]
Kris Holt
2022-01-27 17:49:58
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Watching My Mother Watch Music
Our pop music critic remembers going to concerts with his mom, who died last year.
She was giving me a blueprint to feel free, though even now, I experience exuberance at concerts far more intensely on the inside than the outside. Maybe thats part of my origin story as a critic wat… [+1584 chars]
Jon Caramanica
2021-12-29 18:26:58
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The Morning After: Neil Young threatens to pull his music from Spotify over Joe Rogan's podcast
Musician Neil Young has asked his management team and record label to remove his songs from Spotify. "I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines — potentially causing death to those who believe [it]," he said. "They can have …
Musician Neil Young has asked his management team and record label to remove his songs from Spotify. "I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines potentially causing … [+4600 chars]
Mat Smith
2022-01-26 12:15:44
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Stephen Lawrence, Whose Music Enriched ‘Sesame Street,’ Dies at 82
He composed the title song of the landmark album “Free to Be … You and Me.” He then moved on to Big Bird and friends.
Ms. Thomas had recruited a formidable roster of stars to perform on the record. In addition to writing the music for several of the songs, Mr. Lawrence, as the projects music director, had the task o… [+1568 chars]
Neil Genzlinger
2022-01-08 23:32:16
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Neil Young tells Spotify to remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation
Singer and songwriter Neil Young is unhappy to share a platform on Spotify with Joe Rogan. Young says he wants his music off the service due to Rogan’s hand in spreading vaccine misinformation.
They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.
Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
After the gold rush of signing Joe Rogan, Spotify now has to deal with the harvest.
The latest difficulty in reaction to… [+2188 chars]
James Vincent
2022-01-25 11:44:15
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Neil Young threatens to quit Spotify over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation
Canadian musician Neil Young is not pleased to be sharing Spotify's platform with podcast star Joe Rogan, according to Rolling Stone. In a now-deleted letter, Young reportedly asked his management team and record label to remove his songs from the platform. "…
Canadian musician Neil Young is not pleased to be sharing Spotify's platform with podcast star Joe Rogan, according to Rolling Stone. In a now-deleted letter, Young reportedly asked his management te… [+2351 chars]
Steve Dent
2022-01-25 13:43:12
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5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now
Music by Liza Lim and Pamela Z, albums of Vivaldi and Walter Piston and work from a classic conductor are some recent recording highlights.
Along with championing living composers, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, under its founding director, Gil Rose, has for 25 years been bringing renewed attention to mid-20th-century Americans, as… [+1177 chars]
2021-12-30 10:00:13
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Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music
In shows like “Caroline, or Change” and “Kimberly Akimbo,” the composer excels at translating her astute insights about characters into music.
This is the mystery of Jeanine Tesori of any composer for the theater, really. Where does the music come from, and how does it work its magic? A nonverbal language with the power to move us, sometime… [+2544 chars]
Rob Weinert-Kendt
2021-12-29 15:00:09
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Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One)
The extraordinary range of C.P.E. Bach, a son of J.S., is on display in a new album from the pianist Marc-André Hamelin.
I grew up with the modern piano, and it affords me all the pleasure, all the fulfillment, all the musical results I want. So, as much as I appreciate sometimes playing an old instrument and I have, n… [+952 chars]
David Allen
2022-01-18 16:59:07
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How the Head of a Jazz Nonprofit Spends Her Sundays
Alina Bloomgarden believes that music education can reduce recidivism. Many renowned jazz artists have joined her cause.
Alina Bloomgarden started Music on the Inside, a nonprofit that connects jazz artists with incarcerated people (or those recently released from prisons and jails) for lessons, concerts and mentoring.… [+1307 chars]
Tammy La Gorce
2022-01-14 10:00:22
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Music preview 2022: The biggest releases, tours and films
What will Britney do now she's free of her conservatorship, and who's releasing new music in 2022?
By Mark SavageBBC Music Correspondent
Image caption, Billie Eilish will finally get to resume her debut world tour in 2022
In the music world, 2021 was a year of surprises.
Daft Punk split up, Ab… [+12165 chars]
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2021-12-29 00:15:51
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Canada party flight 'idiots' fly home to face music
The group of over 100 travellers have been branded "barbarians" by Prime Minister Justine Trudeau.
Image source, Getty Images
Image caption, The group was stranded in Cancun, Mexico, after airlines refused to fly them back to Canada
Canadian officials say a group of influencers whose rowdy behav… [+2686 chars]
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2022-01-07 23:08:30
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Remi Wolf is casually rewriting the rules of pop music
The former downhill skier and American Idol contestant is making some of pop's most exuberant songs.
By Mark SavageBBC Music Correspondent
Image caption, Remi Wolf: "Everything is genreless nowadays"
Remi Wolf's music bursts out of your speakers like a party popper.
Playful and exuberant, her so… [+6702 chars]
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2022-01-15 02:02:43
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Elza Soares: Tributes as Brazilian samba legend dies aged 91
Her career spanned six decades and she used her music to campaign against racism.
Image source, Getty Images
Image caption, The celebrated singer, performing here in 2004, had a career that spanned more than six decades
Elza Soares, one of the greatest Brazilian singers of all t… [+2732 chars]
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2022-01-21 02:20:43
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Review: A Conductor Adds Her Name to Philharmonic Contenders
As the orchestra searches for a new music director, Susanna Mälkki was given the distinction of leading it at Carnegie Hall.
Adolphus Hailstorks 1984 overture An American Port of Call depicts Norfolk, Va., as a mixture of bustling activity and sweet nocturnal relaxation. Mälkki brought out piquant touches, like some charac… [+1620 chars]
Zachary Woolfe
2022-01-07 18:00:55
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Ralph Emery, the Dick Clark of Country Music, Dies at 88
For six decades he promoted country performers on radio and television, earning a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Walter Ralph Emery was born on March 10, 1933, in McEwen, Tenn., 50 miles or so west of Nashville, the only child of Walter and Maxine (Fuqua) Emery.
His father, who suffered from alcoholism, was an… [+1066 chars]
Bill Friskics-Warren
2022-01-17 16:40:42
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A Killing Jolts Sweden’s Rap Scene
A conversation about hip-hop’s evolution in the country, and how a high-profile shooting thrust the music into the spotlight.
Einar, the Swedish rapper who in the last few years had become one of the most dominant performers in the countrys hip-hop scene, as well as a major pop figure, was shot and killed last October. The … [+408 chars]
2022-01-26 21:51:10
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What We Forgot to Talk About in 2021
A catch-up round table on a host of topics: Maneskin, Jazmine Sullivan, Kelly Clarkson, a Real Housewife’s music career and much more.
Taylor, Drake, Olivia, Adele, Billie, Lil Nas X, Sondheim, Kanye, Kacey: Popcast has covered them all in the past 12 months. In the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, pop music returned to some… [+889 chars]
2021-12-28 22:34:07
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He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One.
Hans Rosbaud was renowned as a modern-music specialist. But newly released archival recordings demonstrate his gifts were far broader.
Even before Hitler took power in 1933, Rosbauds tastes were drawing the attention of what he told Stravinsky was a chauvinistic movement. Forced to enlist a family friend in Graz as a fake father to … [+2107 chars]
David Allen
2022-01-13 10:00:16
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