This week on Digital Music Trends an extended panel including Martyn Davies (SendGrid, Music Hack Day), Eric Eitel and Andrea Goetzke (all2gethernow, Berlin Music Week), Duncan Geere (DuncanGeere.com) and Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown).

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This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to welcome Sitar Teli (Connect Ventures), Steve Knopper (Rolling Stone) and Nikke Osterback (Saari Music) to discuss the latest news in the music tech industry. This week we cover Shazam's new round of funding, the rumors of Beats-backed Daisy seeking a carrier partnership for launch in the US, YouTube and Vevo's renewed partnership, Base79's new round of funding, 7Digital first to sell music on the new Firefox Mobile OS and Jay-Z's Magna Carta raising eyebrows from both a UX and privacy point of view.

Also as there were a few bits of news that we didn't manage to cover on the panel so I jumped on at the end to record a short round-up which includes Songkick's Detour expansion in the UK, Bing Audio expanding internationally, UMG's deal with PLDT in the Philippines, South Africa's Look & Listen music retail chain relaunching its digital store, startup Promohut and finally Bandzoogle acquiring OneSheet.

After a few weeks without hiccups you'll notice that the video version of the show has a fair few "still picture" moments due to Skype malfunctions, trying my best to make sure the chance of this happening again is minimized my end. You can find this week's shownotes here.

And finally I'd like to thank Venture Harbour (http://www.ventureharbour.com) for helping me out in the past few days to improve DMT's website from an SEO standpoint...

I hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Timeline with YouTube links:

00:15 Introduction and Guests

01:55 Shazam closes a $40 million round of funding from America Movil

08:08 Beats-backed upcoming Daisy music streaming service reportedly seeking partnership with a major carrier in the US, potentially AT&T

16:08 YouTube and Vevo renew partnership with Google reportedly investing in the company to the tune of $40/50m

22:30 Base79 raises a new round of funding from Evolution Media Growth Partners

25:40 New Firefox Mobile OS is out in the wild and 7digital jumps on board to provide users a way to purchase and access music

29:40 Jay-Z's album is released and there are UX and privacy concerns raised around the app through which Samsung gave away Magna Carta Holy Grail

40:40 Whatever the guests want to talk about!

Andrea by himself - quick run through extra news:

43:30 Songkick launches Detour in 10 more cities in the UK

44:30 Windows expands Bing Audio internationally and Spotify updates the Windows 8 Mobile app to add more functionality

45:35 Universal Music strikes a deal with the Philippines Long Distance Telephone company to distribute its music with the company's mobile division

46:30 In South Africa music retail chain Look & Listen relaunches its digital store in partnership with Mondia Media

47:00 PromoHut launches to deliver pre-release access to superfans

48:10 Bandzoogle has acquired OneSheet

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This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Steve McClure (http://mccluremusic.com) and Taishi Fukuyama (http://enter.prtl.jp/). As they are both experts in the Japanese music market we discuss the subject at length including the recent news that it may overtake the US in revenues in 2013, the bumpy development of a digital ecosystem, the role of management and promotions companies, JASRAC and more. We also cover international news as usual with the partnership between Deezer and Foursquare, the launch of a premium option for Songza users and the RIAA changing its certifications rules for digital albums in light of Jay-Z's release. Also a couple of service notes with SXSW opening up the Panelpicker process and the release of Napster's documentary "Downloaded".

I hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time.

00:15 Introduction and guests

02:00 Foursquare announces a partnership with Deezer in 15 territories, is Foursquare pervasive enough to grant Deezer a chunk of new users?

08:00 The Japanese music market, on the brink of surpassing the US in terms of revenues, were you guys surprised? What is the current state of the Japanese music industry today?

13:15 The growth of the Japanese market has been tied to the rise in physical sales related to the J-pop phenomenon and very specific bands. This is not coupled with the growth of a sustainable digital market yet, is this a dangerous position to be in?

18:04 Who is the main provider of music downloads on "feature phones" and how do those work? Taishi talks about Recochoku and the availability of artist-specific subscription as well as on-demand downloads.

20:00 How come that these services didn't adapt to offer smartphone-based services too when the shift started happening over a year back?

27:00 Promic.tv is the latest website placing a focus on promoting Japanese music internationally, is there a lot of focus on breaking Japanese artists abroad and are Japanese artists working towards that?

36:45 The japanese authors society JASRAC is a huge part of the music industry in Japan, what kind of organisation is it, what's the perception of the society in JAPAN and how does it behave with digital services for example?

42:30 The RIAA decided to change its certification rules in light of the release of Magna Carta Holy Grail, implying that they will count the copies sold via Samsung as part of the certification process while Billboard stated they won't count towards the charts. What's your take on all this?

50:25 Songza launched a premium service with "Club Songza" priced at 99 cents per week.

56:00 What's the state of internet radio in Japan?

57:30 Napster Documentary "Downloaded" is available to download in the US

58:10 The SXSW machine restarts with the Panelpicker entries open once again

58:57 Thanks and outro

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This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown) and Tom Satchwell (Beatsontoast, Fortitude PR). It's a busy week as we tackle Tunewiki's closure, the rumours surrounding iTunes Radio and the indie sector, the idea of Jay-Z's Samsung deal being a controlled (& lucrative) leak, Spotify apps (where to?), Sony Music Unlimited and Xbox Music expanding their feature sets, Amazon to launch AutoRip in Germany, C3S crowdfunding, Saavn striking a deal with Tata Docomo, music streaming app Anghami reaching 2m users, Pink Floyd "schooling" Pandora in an editorial on USA Today & finally an interview with Michael Robertson on his new startup Uberstations.

You can find the shownotes with links to the articles discussed here: http://bit.ly/DMT138notes and below the show's timeline and links to specific points on YouTube (make sure you subscribe to DMT's YouTube channel)

00:15 Introduction & Guests

01:41 Tunewiki announces closure

11:11 iTunes Radio and the Indies

17:45 Jay-Z and Kanye West album releases - strategies?

26:20 Spotify Apps, how do they help artists and where are they heading?

35:00 Sony Music Unlimited releases iOS update with offline music playing

41:55 Xbox Music to announce a web-based version of the service (at long last...) ?

44:55 Amazon reaches a deal with GEMA to launch AutoRip in Germany

45:55 C3S to launch a crowdfunding campaign to kick start the project of a new pan-European collection society with Creative Commons provisions

50:15 Saavn strikes a deal with Tata Docomo, one of the country's largest mobile operators

51:06 Anghami reaches 2 million users concentrating on Middle East and Northern African territories

52:08 Pink Floyd criticise Pandora in an editorial for USA Today -

01:00:10 Guest plugs - Darren: Eliza and the Bear, Spring Offensive, Houndstooth

Tom: Beatsontoast.wordpress.com & Fortitude Pr

01:02:25 An interview with Michael Robertson on his new startup Uberstations

01:10:23 Outro and end

Have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends J Herskowitz, Jeff Price and Marcus Taylor join me to chat about: Jay Z's deal with Samsung on the release of Magna Carta Holy Grail, BMI taking Pandora to the Rate Court, Pink Floyd joining the streaming fold, Audiam launching to enable musicians to collect all their YouTube money, the new MySpace going out of beta and getting a native iOS app, the launch of Soundwave as well as the latest from Tomahawk. The shownotes with links to all the articles are here: http://bit.ly/dmt137notes

It was a really fun show to record and I hope you'll enjoy the smooth video and audio throughout... a first for a 4-way conversation across 2 continents. Below a breakdown of the show with links to the specific clips on YouTube.

00:16 Introduction of show and guests

01:40 Jaz-Z's deal with Samsung to distribute Magna Carta Holy Grail

02:53 Do you think this will work in Jay-Z's favor from a marketing perspective?

07:30 There are a few steps to giving the album away including having to make users aware that this is happening and getting them to download the app on their phone, are they going to be able to give away 1 million copies?

08:50 And the album given away as part of the deal are unlikely to be counted for charts purposes, have artists stopped caring about charts?

10:20 BMI sues Pandora and takes the case to the Federal Rate Court after the two companies could not reach an agreement. What do you feel about BMI's options, it feels like they were being backed into a corner and that was their only shot. What do you think?

13:50 Is Pandora antagonizing essentially all of the rightsholders from the master owners to the publishers?

18:50 Pink Floyd join the streaming fold after quickly reaching the 1 million plays they asked for on Wish You Were Here, was the bar for unlocking set too low and what do you think will happen to the remaining holdouts?

24:45 Jeff you've just launched a new project called Audiam this week can you tell us a little bit about what the concept is and what the company does?

Jeff explains how videos on YouTube can be monetized and how things get complicated when you add music into the picture.

28:00 J Herskowitz talks about what's happening with Tomahawk

30:40 Marcus Taylor talks about Venture Harbour

31:50 Is Google preparing to serve music instantly to people who are looking for songs? Would it make sense?

39:00 the new MySpace exits beta and launches iOS app, any takers?

46:30 Shout-out to Soundwave, new app

Thanks for tuning in, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends I'm joined by Clyde Smith (Hypebot.com) from N. Carolina, Jim Carroll (Irish Times) from Dublin and Alejandro Marin (themusicpimp.com) from Bogota'.. This week we cover - of course - Apple's iTunes Radio announcement extensively from various different angles, we chat about 7Digital's new streaming platform, Pandora's op-ed explaining the acquisition of a small terrestrial radio station and Sony dropping the price for its Music Unlimited service. Here are this week's shownotes though we only managed to cover half of what was on the google doc! http://bit.ly/DMT136Notes

Being in three different continents was quite fun as most of the stories we covered have potential international repercussions and it was pretty interesting to hear how perspectives may differ in different parts of the world.

Massive apologies for the dropped frames in the video version from around 4 minutes onwards, a Mac Pro is sorely needed to get the DMT recording up to speed and hopefully we'll get a sponsor on board in the next month or so to help make that happen.

Timeline:

00:14 Introduction and guests intro

01:30 iTunes Radio announced at WWDC, fall launch and US only. Understated or underwhelming?

17:00 7Digital launches a DMCA-compliant streaming platform which will be accessible via API

24:45 Pandora becomes a terrestrial broadcaster (by acquiring a small station) and aims to get preferential ASCAP rates as a consequence

33:40 Sony Music Unlimited slashes its subscription costs, what does that mean and will consumers respond?

Have a great week and 'till next time

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This week Digital Music Trends was in Washington DC recording interviews at the World Creators Summit (organized by CISAC), an event that gathered speakers from around the world discussing author rights, policy & copyright issues keeping the creators firmly in focus. So this week's DMT is a collection of five interviews filmed whilst over there starting with Jean-Nöel Tronc, CEO of SACEM (the French collection society), then I speak to Paul Williams, president of ASCAP and hall-of-fame songwriter (and for those of you who don't know him go check out tracks 7 and 9 of the new Daft Punk album), then Ralph Peer, II CEO of Peermusic, a discussion on the GRD with YouTube and the Danish Songwriters Guild and finally Matt Mason, VP of marketing at BitTorrent.

I really hope you enjoy this week's episode and look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Have a great week and 'till next time.

00:15 Intro

02:05 Jean-Nöel Tronc, SACEM

16:43 Paul Williams, ASCAP

28:00 Ralph Peer II, Peermusic

42:07 Global Repertoire Database discussion with FX Nuttal (YouTube) and Niels Mosumgaard (Danish Songwriters Guild)

50:39 Matt Mason, BitTorrent

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This week Digital Music Trends is entirely focused on digital music news from Asia including the latest coming from Music Matters which took place in Singapore last week. To help me understand what's happening in the region the team of Valleyarm Digital and Music Weekly Asia including Marie Berst from Singapore, Neil Cartwright from Manila and Matt Campbell from Melbourne.

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00:17 Introduction of guests

02:30 What is Music Weekly Asia and how did the project get started?

03:55 So it must be pretty challenging to work with a team spread out across many different territories, how does that work?

04:50 There's also a language problem as each of the territories covered speaks a different language, how do you keep up to date with what's happening in the news given the language barrier?

6:35 Music Weekly Services recently launched a new chart service that is going to cover different territories in South East Asia what was the inspiration to start this and how important is it to have a chart?

08:15 How do you pull the data to put the chart together if there isn't an organisation that counts sales like in the US and UK for example?

09:38 At Music Matters the CEO of Deezer talked about the company and its expansion in a number of territories in Asia (it's present in Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore), first of all adoption-wise how crucial are carriers to adoption and how crucial are price points?

12:48 Marie, were there concerns particularly around price points expressed at Music Matters?

14:05 Matt, one other other issues is to get as much local content as possible into these services. Do you think services are making a good enough effort to bring local content into their catalogues?

15:50 Neil talks about the availability of music and means of consumption for people in developing territories. There are also licensing issues where not all the content that is available in the UK or US is available in the Philippines because

18:20 Many digital music services that are planning to have a presence in the region set up shop in Singapore, why do you think that is?

19:45 Let's talk about China, do you think it is a viable high growth market for the music industry?

23:30 Talking about downloads is there a big potential for growth in the region?

25:50 There appear to be a lot of streaming services available in Australia especially when you look at the population in the country it seems like a very crowded market, Matt what's your take on this from Melbourne?

28:44 Talking about advertising-based services, for those territories that are not dependent on the usual Google and Facebook are their competitors collecting similar data sets and providing similarly targeted advertising?

30:40 YouTube in many territories - excluding China - can be seen as the great unifier as it's widely available and popular. As part of that global sentiment there were a couple of events at Music Matters that were revolving around YouTube stars, how did those pan out?

33:37 Live sector, there's been an increase in acts travelling to Asia as part of their world tours, are artists aware of their potential to sell tickets in some of these markets? Matt, Neil and Marie talk about Festivals in Indonesia, Australia and Singapore.

38:30 Talking about support structures aside from the well-known K-pop factory in Korea, are there any other support structures for artists for example in the Philippines?

40:30 Rob Wells remarked on how Universal is placing itself as a competitor of large entertainment networks like HBO for example rather than of other labels, do you feel like this can become an issue if a label makes deals essentially as an entertainment brand rather than a music provider and does that damage the independent sector?

41:40 There were quite a few independents present at Music Matters, do you feel like they have a voice in the local markets?

This week on Digital Music Trends I'm joined by Virginie Berger, founder of media agency Don't Believe the Hype and Duncan Geere, freelance journalist working with a variety of publications including Wired.

This week on the show we start by talking about Songkick opening up the beta of its Detour concert crowdsourcing platform to all Londoners and joining forces with Soundcloud to showcase gig listings next to the tracks on the audio sharing platform, we also cover Spotify's new charts, Tumblr's acquisition by Yahoo!, Google Play All Access Music (post-announcement), Merlin's latest digital music numbers from a survey of its members, Deezer and whether they are eyeing up the US market, Pandora working to woo artists and much more.

As usual you can find links to some of the stories we covered and also to the stories we didn't have time to cover in the Google doc: http://bit.ly/133notes.

Under the embeds of the audio and video you can also find the timeline of the show and links to jump to the stories you really can't wait to hear. Remember that Digital Music Trends is also available on iTunes and most podcatchers just type my name or Digital Music Trends in the search bar or follow the links in the menu bar of digitalmusictrends.com.

Have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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DMT Timeline:

00:18 Intro to the guests

02:15 Songkick Detour, impressions, potential and potential hurdles

10:35 Songkick & Soundcloud, match made in heaven?

12:44 Spotify's new Charts

20:00 Yahoo acquires Tumblr, any impact on the music community on the service?

24:45 Google Play All Access Music, will it gain traction?

28:26: Deezer looking to enter the US via a third party company?

34:30 Merlin showcases the results of a members service on revenues and distribution services

41:05 Pandora tries to woo artists with a new backend service while asking them to send a letter to congress highlighting the value of the company

45:00 Wrap-up and outro

This week on Digital Music Trends I'm joined by Darren Hemmings, founder of digital marketing agency Motive Unknown, and Stephen O'Reilly, director of Topspin UK & director of International Sales at Mobile Roadie.

This week we start by talking about the Google Music breaking news story, speculating on what will happen at the Google I/O event which unfortunately is due to happen just hours after this week's DMT recording. We also talk about Apple's woes lining up the licenses for iRadio, the growth of internet radio services like Slacker and iHeartRadio in the US, we talk about the Global Repertoire Database initiative setting up shop in London and Berlin, Midem moving dates by a week in 2014, Soundcloud opening a NY office and the upcoming Great Escape festival in Brighton.

You can find the shownotes for this week's episode here: http://bit.ly/132notes

And below you'll find a list of the subject addressed in the show with timings which can serve as reference if you're listening to the show or as a link if want to watch it on YouTube.

I hope you enjoy this week's show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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DMT 132 Timeline

00:18 Introduction of guests

01:10 Breaking: Google launching a music subscription service? Discussion on what’s to come (pre Google I/O announcement that happened a few hours later)

14:30 Apple struggling in its licensing negotiations for iRadio?

22:40 Slacker and iHeartRadio both announcing healthy growth in listeners, we discuss the Slacker model in its free personalized radio to fully-fledged on-demand service.

27:00 How are current subscription services doing when it comes to offer personalized radio services?

29:14 The Global Repertoire Database announced the opening of offices in London and Berlin. Is the industry mature enough to understand its importance and make sure it succeeds?

36:00 Soundcloud opens an office in NY headed by former National Director of Strategic Partnerships at Pandora, does that mean a faster push towards advertising?

41:30 Midem changes dates to the first 1st/4th February

43:40 The Great Escape kicks off on the 16th of May

47:28 Guest’s projects and outro