Cultura Voice

How much does being No.1 on the weekly industry album charts really matter in a streaming world where the concept of an LP ‘sale equivalent’ is as nebulous and debatable as it comes? Literally: how much does it matter? Like, what financial number would you put on it? We might be about to find out. According to the (notoriously tabloid-y) Page Six, one artist who just missed out on a US chart-topping album is planning to hit Billboard with a “monster lawsuit” in retaliation. That artist is DJ Khaled , signed to Sony’s Epic Records. His latest album,  Father Of Asahd , landed at No.2 on the Billboard 200 chart two weeks ago, underneath the No.1 record that week,  Igor , by Tyler, The Creator The breakdown of those albums on that Billboard chart, for the week ending May 23, were as follows:  Igor  was credited with  165,000  weekly equivalent sales, broken down into 74,000 ‘real’ sales (of physical and digital albums), plus 90,...

Share price-watching Spotify investors have been starved of good news of late, but this week has brought them a welcome boost. The market cap of SPOT grew nearly 7% at the bell on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday (November 26) – largely, it appears, thanks to reports suggesting that the loss-making company’s expansion into India may be back on. The major labels have played hardball with licensing Spotify in India this year: Daniel Ek (pictured) is believed to have originally been plotting a soft launch in the market over the summer, which never arrived. But now, according to Variety and Di Digital, Spotify could launch in India “within six months”. (That target date should, coincidentally, arrive shortly after Spotify’s current deal with Universal Music Group comes up for renewal.) This is an understandably exciting prospect for Spotify’s Wall Street supporters. India’s 1.3bn population is approximately seven times bigger than the 191m monthl...

B.O.A.M – Ep « Tuile de chevreuil » Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Distribution The Orchard BOAM - Ep "Tuile de chevreuil" BOAM est le résultat d’une collaboration hors du commun entre deux musiciens électroniques et un violoncelliste du conservatoire. Cette surprenante union donne lieu à la rencontre de deux univers très différents : des rhythmiques puissantes et entrainantes se mêlent à des atmosphères planantes, le tout sublimé par un violoncelle dont le répertoire est savamment maitrisé. Ce mélange aux allures oniriques, maîtrisé et équilibré à la perfection, tend à casser les clichés du genre actuel et à l'ouvrir vers de nouveaux horizons, nous plongeant en immersion dans un univers artistique original, riche et complexe. BOAM is the result of an unusual collaboration between two electronic musicians and a cellist of the conservatory. This surprising union gives rise to the meeting of two very different worlds: powerful rhytmic’s and c...