Music Streaming Industry

AI tools, fake songs, and $10M fraud: US musician indicted for royalty scam

The musician and his accomplices allegedly set up around 10,000 fake profiles to stream these songs, carefully distributing streams to evade detection by avoiding abnormal listening spikes

Wynk Studio artists' songs surpass 1.7+ billion streams

The 1.7 million streams for these songs establishes how much our customers are enjoying the content while we help the artist, Amit Tripathi said

YouTube Music adds mood filters in 'activity bar' for song choices on web

Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music gets mood filters, i.e. "activity bar" with various moods to tune what appears in the Home feed on the web

Music streaming platform Spotify's website, app restored after brief outage

Music streaming platform Spotify on Friday said that it has fixed the issue that affected its website and application

Spotify CEO pumps $50 mn into his music streaming platform, stocks up by 3%

Spotify's stock jumped more than 3 per cent to reach $108.98 per share after the investment announcement came late on Friday

We'll take more local creators to global stage: Spotify India head

In its fourth quarter (Q4) results for 2021, the company took its paid subscribers to 180 million globally, and India was one of the leading countries in terms of user growth

Music streaming giant Spotify now has 158 million paid subscribers globally

208 million are using the ad-supported version globally.

Saregama inks global music licensing deal with short video platform Triller

Saregama on Tuesday announced a global music licensing deal with short format video platform Triller

Spotify quarterly revenue beats Wall Street estimates on subscriber growth

The music streaming company hit 155 million paid subscribers for its premium service

Spotify now lets you save unlimited songs, albums, podcasts in user library

The Swedish music streaming service has removed the 10000 songs limit on the user library

Apple Music takes on Spotify with 'Replay' feature to revisit old songs

The feature is available from the official app across platforms.

With the merger of Saavn & Reliance Jio, music streaming hits a high note

The deal with Saavn will catapult Reliance to the top of the heap in the OTT market