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FALCO (Original Television Soundtrack) Director Ernesto Contreras, Julian de Tavira Music composed by Andres Sanchez Maher & Gus Reyes Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Winner of Best Prime Time Show International Emmy Award It's 1994 in Mexico City, and Alejandro Falco is a good policeman with a promising future and a young family. However, his perfect world is shattered when he is shot by a mysterious attacker in the line of duty. With a bullet lodged in his head, Falco falls into a coma - for the next 24 years. He awakes in 2018 with no memory of what happened, and to a world he doesn't recognize - including the internet and mobile phones. But far more devastating is the news that his wife has remarried, and the baby daughter he once knew is now a grown woman. FALCO (Original Television Soundtrack) on Spotify FALCO (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) on Fanlinks

Belgium-based, independent music trade body IMPALA has said that it is ‘gearing up to oppose Tencent’s buyout of a 10% stake of Universal Music Group.’ The European organization argues that ‘the impact of such a sale would change the whole music ecosystem’, and that smaller companies will be at a competitive disadvantage. In a statement issue today (November 26), IMPALA, which represents over 4,000 independent music companies and national associations, says that it is also ‘concerned about who might buy the additional UMG stakes that are up for grabs’. Tencent Music Holdings is the majority shareholder of Tencent Music Entertainment (TME), which owns QQ Music, Kugou and Kuwo and has an estimated 90% market share of digital music in China. According to TME’s latest Q3 results, it reached a total of 35.4m paying music subscribers in the three months to end of September, while the firm’s online music services – including both streaming and downloads – generated RMB 1.85bn (US $...

Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director Jason Kwan, Jing Wong Music composed by Day Tai Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch , previously known as  Master of Ransom , is a 2019 Hong Kong  crime film  directed by  Wong Jing  and Jason Kwan, starring  Tony Leung ,  Louis Koo  and  Gordon Lam , with  Simon Yam  making a special appearance. The film is a sequel in-title-only to the 2017 film,  Chasing the Dragon , and features a new storyline and new characters. Serial billionaire kidnapper Logan has been savaging Hong Kong. Now, his gang is aiming the dart beyond Hong Kong, at an affluent Macau regal. Chasing the Dragon II Wild Wild Bunch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) on Spotify Before 1997, criminal genius Logan ( Tony Leung Ka-fai ) savages Hong Kong with a series of notorious kidnaps. He abducts the first sons of Hong...

Out of all the buzz that Spotify continues to amass as a leading music-streaming service, one problem that virtually no one in the music business has discussed yet is the gaping hole between Spotify’s oft-trumpeted mission statement and its actual business model. Over the past year and a half, Spotify has made its two-pronged mission loud and clear in investor presentations and on its website: “[To] unlock the potential of human creativity — by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.” The streaming company has attempted to “[give] a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art” — or at least jumpstart that part of their objective — by acquiring startups that offer creative tools for musicians and podcasters. There was Soundtrap, a cloud-based collaborative audio workstation, in November 2017; then Anchor, the podcast creation, hosting, distribution and monetizati...

IOAN STREBA – Album “BALKANS JAZZ” Ethnic Gipsy Blues Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Distribution Sergent Major Company Ltd – The Orchard IOAN STREBA, Romanian musician who has been based in Paris for many years, proposes with this original project mixing his musical influences gipsy with a very modern jazz. What could be better than Paris, solidly accompanied by three musicians’ referents of the jazz scene: Philippe Milanta on piano, Bruno Rousselet has double bass and Philippe Soirat has drums, to try a meeting between these two free universes, from west to east? Ioan Streba - Album "Balkans Jazz" on Spotify The bar is set high, and the result surprising, which is reminiscent of the clarinet of Buddy by Franco or Eddie Daniels or quartets of Desmond, Coltrane or Gets... However, it is a contemporary music, perfectly original, in which the phrase and structures of the blues permeate the original compositions of Ioan, or vice versa!... ...

When the music industry ‘streaming wars’ are taught in universities in years to come, ‘Spotify Vs. Pandora’ will be a fruitful case study for students to delve into. Little over three years ago, at the end of Q2 2015, Pandora had more active users worldwide than Spotify (79.4m vs. 75m). Today – according to updated Q3 statistics publicly unveiled by both companies this week – Spotify has nearly four times as many as its one-time rival (248m vs. 63.1m). The most fateful decision in Pandora’s story, it could be argued, was its global contraction: in July 2017, the firm shut down operations in Australia and New Zealand, making it a US-only service, while, since that date, Spotify has expanded into the likes of India, Vietnam and the Middle East (with a launch in Russia now on the agenda). There are other key factors at play, too, though: for a long time following that isolationist US-only move, Pandora has boasted of being “the largest music streaming service in the US”. That...