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The roll-out of the streaming platform means that Apple Music is now available in 167 markets in total. That’s more than double the number of countries in which Spotify operates – 79 – as reported in the Swedish service’s annual results at the close of last year. Apple’s move comes as part of a global expansion of the company’s most popular services, with the App Store, Apple Arcade and iCloud available in 20 more territories from today. Meanwhile, Apple Music’s in-house ‘radio’ station, Beats 1, will now broadcast in seven Middle Eastern countries – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Bahrain – bringing a live global listening experience from studios in Los Angeles, New York, London and Nashville. “We’re delighted to bring many of Apple’s most beloved Services to users in more countries than ever before,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and International Content. “We hope our customers can discover their new favor...

Last week India-based Gaana claimed to be the country’s first music streaming service to hit 100 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs). Gaana’s Chief Executive Officer Prashan Agarwal then added that the platform expects to reach 200m MAUs in the next two years. Although Gaana’s latest milestone is impressive, it’s not alone: another hugely popular service in India, JioSaavn, has also surpassed the 100m mark, can reveal. According to sources close to the company, JioSaavn currently has  104m  MAUs as of today (April 29). Those same sources claim this figure is enough for the platform to stake its own claim as ‘India’s largest music streaming service’. For comparison’s sake, Spotify, today (April 29) that it ended Q1 2019 with 217m MAUs globally, and over 2m users in India. Within those 217m MAUs, Spotify counts over 100m paying subscribers. The JioSaavn platform in its present-day form is the result of a merger between Saavn and rival...

Entertainment One has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of UK-based Audio Network Limited (Audio Network) – a production music specialist and one of the world’s largest independent creators and publishers of original music for use in film, television, advertising and digital media. The buyout is being valued at approximately US $215 million. The announcement was made today (April 11) by eOne’s President and CEO Darren Throop, with Global President, Music Chris Taylor, and alongside Audio Network’s Founder & Chairman Andrew Sunnucks and CEO Robb Smith. Audio Network, with nine offices worldwide, boasts an expansive catalogue of over 150,000 fully-owned tracks, in addition to relationships with more than 1,000 composers, singer-songwriters and emerging commercial artists. Entertainment One says this talent will ‘benefit from [eOne’s] rich traditional record label services and extensive film, television and brand capabilities’. It adds: ‘The addition o...

Maximilien MATHEVON – Album “Monlight Navigator” Space Tempo Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd The Orchard CD Digital & Vinyl Collector Limited Edition Since 2002, Maximilien Mathevon has composed the original soundtrack of numerous documentaries for French TV channels (CANAL+, ARTE, M6, France Televisions....). In 2002 and 2003 he created new musical accompaniments for 12 famous silent movies as they were reissued in France on DVD ("20000 leagues under the seas", "Outside the law", " Way down east"....). Maximilien has also composed several Electronic / New Age albums, blending ethnic sonorities, classical and electro styles. Maximilien Mathevon - Album "Moonlight Navigator" on Spotify MOONLIGHT NAVIGATOR Side A 1.       Moonlight Navigator       3’56 2.       Among the Stars     5’28 3.       Follow the North Star  ...

Universal Music Group is yet to sell any of its Spotify shares which, according to MBW’s calculations, are currently worth around $850m. That’s led to much discussion in the artist community about what will happen when UMG does bank its 3.5% stake in the streaming company. One question has been asked louder than any other: will Universal follow the lead of Sony Music and pay out its artists’ contractual share of this cash  without  withholding money owed by their individual unrecouped balances? Writing on Instagram to announce her new deal with UMG, Swift wrote: “There was one condition which meant more to me than any other deal point. As part of my new contract with Universal Music Group, I asked that any sale of their Spotify shares result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable.” “AS PART OF MY NEW CONTRACT WITH UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP, I ASKED THAT ANY SALE OF THEIR SPOTIFY SHARES RESULT IN A DISTRIBUTION OF MON...

SCIMIA – Ep “AWE” The Intersideral Ship Digital & Physical Distribution Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd The Orchard Scimia - Ep "Awe" on Itunes   Welcome aboard the Intersidereal Ship of Scimia, pilot of a musical company with only instrument on board An old augmented reality battery (pads and MIDI keyboard). The music-loving Gorilla embarked on a journey of exploration at the confines of the known electro universe, temporal edition Included, with Giorgio Moroder as chief mechanic, Charles Darwin as helmsman and Charlton Heston as cook. The simple desire to push the use of its instrument of and the limits of play offered by its activities in the Rock bands pushed Orso Samson to build a Synthetic universes based on loops, samples and sequences. The result is festive, dancing, heady. The first steps of the monkey-drum were made to the rhythm of from C2C and stuntman to drive him today to develop a sound that surfs between Kavinsky, Mr OI...

“All the talk these days is about artificial intelligence and what machines will be able to do in 20 years,” Alibaba Pictures President Wei Zhang says, from her penthouse office in Southern California with sweeping views of the San Gabriel Mountains. “Increasingly, people realize that it’s really the creative and emotional side of humans that machines cannot easily replicate.” Timeless themes are on Zhang’s mind these days as she tries to steer Alibaba Pictures—the film unit of China’s biggest e-commerce company—into a technologically evolving future. She set up shop in the Los Angeles area in 2016, tasked by CEO Jack Ma to develop Alibaba’s entertainment business and find stories to share with the content-hungry audience in China, soon to be the largest movie market in the world. Alibaba then invested and entered into a partnership with Steven Spielberg’s production company, Amblin Entertainment. That was in 2016, at the height of feverish Hollywood-China deal making, ...