This week on Digital Music Trends I'm joined by Adam Webb and Richard Kirstein (Resilient Music). We start with music streaming stories talking about Spotify acquiring Tunigo and about Songza's latest update and its growth in numbers. We also cover Bittorrent’s introduction of the Bittorrent Bundles alpha in partnership with Ultra Music and Kaskade, the year-long deal between Vevo and Toyota in the UK, YouTube subscriptions, the importance of music metadata as discussed at the latest @Narm event in LA and much more! Below you'll find a breakdown of the show with YouTube links that will take you directly to each story that we discussed, you can also use these times as reference if you're listening to the show on any other device.

You can find links to the stories we discuss in the shownotes: http://bit.ly/131notes

Check out www.digitalmusictrends.com for more on the show, including the weekly DMT 1-2-1 show where I interview interesting startups and digital music companies on their respective projects.

Have a great week and ‘till next time!

Andrea Leonelli digitalmusictrends.com twitter.com/digimusictrends

00:12 Show & guests intro

01:24 Spotify acquires Tunigo

05:29 Songza updates its app and announces user numbers

14:50 Red Bull Academy & the future of brand involvement in music

24:53 Vevo & Toyota Aygo + where is Vevo going?

34:45 BitTorrent and the new BitTorrent Bundles

42:08 Metadata discussions at the NARM LA event, the latest issues and the hopes pinned on the GRD project.

50:30 Miller Music Tour -- Richard talks about his involvement in the recent partnership between beer brand Miller and Sebastian Ingrosso

53:30 Adam talks about the Momentum Music Fund for musicians

This week on Digital Music Trends first a quick news round-up covering the latest on SiriusXM, Twitter #Music, iTunes, Amanda Palmer’s shout-out to Morrissey, Shazam and the compilation market in the UK.

Then a few interviews recorded at Future Music Camp 2013 in Mannheim. The event, organized by the Popakademie, saw students, music industry and startups come together to discuss some of the hottest issues in the digital space. On this episode I interview representatives from Universal Music A&R, BMW music & apps division, Odyssey Music Network artist management and startup Endore.me.

Check out the timeline below to skip to a specific news story (on YouTube)

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00:01 Introduction

NEWS

01:25 SiriusXM's earnings

02:33 Twitter #Music's slides from the App Charts

04:08 Happy birthday to you! iTunes is 10 years old...

05:09 Amanda Palmer writes an open letter to Morrissey suggesting that he crowdfunds his new record

06:56 Compilations market keeps growing in the UK

08:07 Shazam announces a new CEO

INTERVIEWS

09:43 Peter Burgner -- Entertainment and Music Apps division - BMW -- recorded IN a car... Peter shows off the latest dashboard technology from BMW that detects and interfaces directly with the apps on your phone.

17:22 Julian Krohn -- A&R Manager -- Universal Music. I ask Julian about the evolution of the role of A&R within a label. What are the responsibilities of A&R today? How does an act get discovered? How does A&R work effectively with both the digital marketing units of a label and artists' management? How is the YouTube/GEMA standoff affecting artists in Germany?

29:48 Ryan Rauscher -- Project Manager - SMIX.LAB (Popakademie). Ryan is a long time organizer of the Future Music Camp, we talk about how the event has evolved over the past five years as well as students' involvement and their uptake of new services.

36:42 Tobias Schiwek -- Founder and CEO -- Endore.me. Tobias, one of the founders of music streaming service Simfy, talks about his new startup that aims to be the Flipboard for entertainment. The app aggregates all relevant information on artists allowing fans to follow what their favorite acts are doing without having to visit a variety of different platforms.

43:08 Ulysses Hüppauff -- Founder - Odyssey Music Network. Ulysses started the management company Odyssey after a number of years at Universal and Sony music, the company has built a solid roster of international artists including Apocalyptica. We talk about the evolution of management's role as it becomes the hub for most of the artist's activities. Ulysses is also working closely with Pledge music and has conducted a number of successful campaigns on the platform in Germany.

This week on Digital Music Trends I'm joined by Ben Sisario (New York Times), Eliot Van Buskirk (Evolver.fm) and Andy Malt (CMU).

The news of the week of course is Twitter Music so we proceed to review, analyse and ponder the many angles of this story, though I can't promise that is a linear process in any way... Then we chat about Grooveshark's appeal loss in the lawsuit brought by Universal Music pertaining the infringement on pre 1972 tracks, we look at the company Royalty Exchange which creates an interesting "stock market" for publishing rights, we chat about the new records set by Daft Punk (on Spotify) and PSY (on YouTube) and talk about the Chinese market as Alibaba-owned Taobao implements the recently acquired music service Xiami onto its website.

You can find links to all the stories we discuss and many more stories of the week (we never get around to talking about everything) on the Google doc: http://bit.ly/ep7notes.

As always please do send feeback my way via email on [email protected] or via Twitter @digimusictrends.

Have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

This week on Digital Music Trends an event-specific show with a collection of interviews recorded at the Music Connected event organised by the Association of Independent Music in London. We chat about digital marketing, release planning, advertising budgets, getting exposure on streaming services, the responsibilities of management and much more with companies like Beggars, Spotify, Ministry of Sound, AIM, Consolidated Independent, Record of the Day, Anjunabeats, Raw Power Management and Music Ally.

If you'd like to skip ahead to a specific interview below is a list of the times. If you downloaded the podcast you can follow these as an indication but if you're on YouTube just click on the time indicated and the correct interview will open. I hope you enjoy this episode, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

00:05 Introduction to the Episode -- Mention of Twitter Music release

01:36 Lucy Blair -- Digital Marketing Manager -- Ministry of Sound

06:11 David Emery -- Head of Marketing -- Beggars Group

11:47 Jessica Roe -- Social Media & Marketing Manager - Anjunabeats

17:14 Alison Wenham -- CEO -- Association of Independent Music

20:34 David Balfour -- Record of The Day/Finetues

23:42 Laura Kirkpatrick -- Label Relations -- Spotify

28:24 Eamonn Forde -- Journalist -- Music Ally et al

35:16 Kieron Faller -- General Manager -- Consolidated Independent

39:45 Don Jenkins -- Manager -- Raw Power Management

46:19 Outro

On this episode of Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli and Tom Davenport chat about Vdio's long-awaited debut to US and UK Rdio subscribers, BBM Music's retirement, the latest numbers from the IFPI & NPD, some lovely infographics from Pandora celebrating the 200m users milestone and from the BPI celebrating the 1 billionth digital single sold in the UK. You can find the shownotes for this week's show on http://bit.ly/dmt127note

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

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This week on Digital Music Trends I'm joined by Steve Knopper (Rolling Stone) and Eamonn Forde (MusicAlly).

Lots to talk about as we delve into Redigi's court loss in the case brought by Capitol Records, the passing of Phil Ramone, the evolution and future of charts in the US and the UK, the three strikes law in South Korea, YouTube's deal with SACEM and UMP, the role of Merlin and the independent sector and finally the best April fool's stories in music tech this year.

You can find the shownotes with links to the stories discussed here: http://bit.ly/DMT126.

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Have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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On this episode of Digital Music Trends I'm joined by Dave Allen, director of interactive strategy at North.com and former Gang of Four bass player, and Nikke Osterback, founder of digital strategy agency Saari Music.

We chat about Twitter's entry in the music space, Spotify's new advertising campaign as well as rehashed rumours of a video service, Deezer's CEO outlook on downloads, Timberlake's sales numbers, the question of digital goods resale in the USA after an important Supreme Court ruling and much more!

You can find the show notes to DMT 125 with links to the stories discussed here http://bit.ly/125notes.

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

Andrea Leonelli (@digimusictrends)

Digital Music Trends reports from SXSW 2013 with an hour-long summary show of all the interviews recorded during the 8-day stay in Austin, Texas.

In DMT 124 representatives from companies/organisations like 7digital, Lyricfind, SoundHound, ONErpm, Sperry Media, Republic Records, CD Baby, Jamplify, Givit, MediaNet, Songza, Soundexchange, VH1, Pollack Media, Livestream, George Washington Law School, The Library of Congress, talk about some of the most pressing issues in the digital music space.

The show is organised loosely by subject, covering the challenges of international expansion, monetization and sustainability of digital music services, music publishing, lyrics, the best tools for artists, mobile strategy, the streaming space, radio (both traditional and web), legal issues around transformative works and digital audio archiving.

I hope you enjoy this special episode of DMT, as you can probably tell it was a hell of an edit! And a special thanks goes to all the companies that took part. You can check out the complete SXSW interviews by visiting the YouTube playlist or the Soundcloud Set.

From next week the regular DMT show will be back on as usual.  Thanks for tuning in, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

This week on Digital Music Trends I'm joined by Karim Fanous (Music Ally) and Syd Laurence (Wemakeawesomesh.it, Twilio). It's certainly a good day and a good year to stream hard as the big players put their chips on the table: with Beats raising $60m for Daisy, Tesco planning a Blinkbox Music rollout, Google bringing YouTube's weight to the table and the usual Apple question marks a streaming war is on its way to your desktop/mobile.Also on the show we discuss the issue of fragmentation in the streaming space and how to facilitate inter-operability, music bookmarking services and the EMI innovation challenge.

DMT will be reporting from SXSW next week with a bunch on interviews and photos/videos from the event, be sure to check out digitalmusictrends.com/sxsw from this Saturday.

Please send any feedback to [email protected], also you can now leave audio and video voicemails on the Skype account digitalmusictrends, feel free to have your say on any of the issues covered in the show and who knows you may end up on it...

Have a great week and 'till next time

Andrea Leonelli

digitalmusictrends.com / @digimusictrends

This week on DMT 122 I'm joined by Matthew Hawn and Darren Hemmings.

We discuss reports of Google entering the music streaming market, Spotify's deal with Ford and the significance of on-demand in the car, Harlem Shake's no. 1, the Billboard moneymakers list looking at recorded vs touring vs streaming income, the live tweeting of Radio 1's playlisting sessions, the IFPI's report on the 2012 recorded music market and much more...

You can find all the links to the stories discussed this week here: http://bit.ly/dmt122notes

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

Andrea Leonelli

digitalmusictrends.com

@digimusictrends