This week on Digital Music Trends we have an all-German panel, with Ryan Rauscher (Smix.lab, Futuremusiccamp), Barbara Hallama (Hallama.org) and Steffen Holly (Fraunhofer IDMT).

On the show we tackle the international news first, starting with Gracenote's new Developer Program which makes the company's APIs and MusicID available to all on a non-commercial basis. We also chat about a couple of recent articles debating the decline in sales of the Top 10 and Top 40 titles in the US and touch upon rumours of Google wanting to clamp down on piracy websites by cutting off their funding.

In the second part of the show I take advantage of my guests' expertise in the German digital music market and so we talk extensively about the YouTube/Gema controversy in an effort to clarify what's happening. We also look at what streaming services are available in Germany and at their popularity, chat about Soundcloud, the startup scene, a project to create a new performance rights society called C3S catering for Creative Commons licenses and much more...

You can find all the links to the stories in the show-notes here: http://bit.ly/dmt121notes

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

This week on Digital Music Trends I'm joined by Taishi Fukuyama (All Access Today Japan) and Sam Taylor (CMU, Great Escape Conference).

In what was a technically challenging show (those who follow the video version will see what I mean) we managed eventually to chat about:

- Pandora's latest numbers, Web Radio, market saturation and Apple's potential entry

- Apple's 25 billion iTunes music sales

- Some interesting numbers from the latest BPI report on brand awareness for streaming services in the UK

- News from Japan as mobile carriers abandon walled gardens and look at cross-carrier content services and also the iPhone becoming the no.1 seller in the country for 2012

- Grammy predictions game, how did Spotify and Shazam do and what does it mean?

- Parlophone and the significance of the acquisition by Warner

- Daisy's latest announcements including a summer launch, 100 people working on playlists and more

You can find the shownotes here.

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

Andrea Leonelli

This Week on Digital Music Trends we take a break from the traditional weekly panel based on the week's news to showcase some of the interviews I recorded at Midem 2013.

The first part features some of the start-ups I met, so we'll check out Spins.fm, Pulselocker, JoyTunes and Yasound.

In the second part we move onto more established players and here I'll feature snippets from conversations I had with Lang Lang, Deezer's CEO Axel Dauchez, Chris Wiltsee from Bandpage and Jez Bell fom Omnifone.

The third part is DMT's very own Direct To Fan and Crowdfunding camp -- where we hear from Pledge Music CEO Benji Rogers, Kevin Wortis from label services company Girlie Action, Emily White from Whitesmith Entertainment and David Balfour from Finetunes.

Drawing closer to the end we hear a few bits of news announced on the show by companies such as UrTurn, Musixmatch and Musicmetric.

Finally DMT 119 includes a snippet of my chat with Martyn Davies on Midem Hack Day and it ends with the thoughts of journalists, analysts, digital experts on the conference and the relevance of Midem in 2013.

I hope you enjoy the show and please email any feedback to [email protected]

On this episode of DMT I'm joined by Glenn Peoples (@billboardglenn) and J Herskowitz (@jherskowitz).

This week we talk about:

- Bjork's Kickstarter campaign for Biophilia

- Rdio launching a free 6-month trial of the service in multiple territories

- Samsung's Music Hub going beyond Samsung devices

- Sony Music Unlimited HQ audio: will anyone care?

- Music sales in Japan for 2012, why did CD sales increase and will streaming make an impact in 2013?

- The worldwide independent music industry network WIN condemns the attitude of the new MySpace toward independents as "repugnant". Can MySpace recover?

You can find links to this week's stories here: http://bit.ly/DMT118notes

This week on Digital Music Trends we cover The Most News Ever. Only kidding, but it's a hefty number of stories and I couldn't have done it without the help of Stuart Dredge and Darren Hemmings.

This week we talk about: - the public launch of MySpace, Justin Timberlake's involvement and the Merlin rights issue.- Redigi's upcoming European launch, legal implications and potential repercussions on the industry (if anyone can be bothered to use it)- Kim Dotcom's launch of Mega amongst much fanfare, but what's the potential piracy impact?- digital distribution price wars as Fandalism offers first free and then cheap iTunes, Spotify and Google Play uploads- the KLF releases slipping through checks and getting released without permission on iTunes and Spotify- flexibility price of streaming subscriptions as Rhapsody launches a $5 tier tied to the MetroPCS carrier- the astonishing story of music sales in Sweden where growth is in the double digits, and is anything happening out there applicable in the UK or is it simply a cultural difference- a quick update on HMV, as the group starts to You can find links to coverage of all the stories we talk about here: http://bit.ly/DMT116notes

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

Andrea Leonelli

www.digitalmusictrends.com

@digimusictrends

This is a busy news week on DMT but thankfully I'm joined by David Emery (Beggars), Will Mills (Shazam) and Duncan Geere (DuncanGeere.com) to help make sense of it all. We start out by talking about Beats by Dre and their recent announcement of project Daisy (with Topspin's Ian Rogers as CEO), then we move on to talking about the launch of Amazon's Auto-Rip service and of course we talk about the UK's largest music retail chain HMV going into administration. We also cover Vimeo and new streaming service Bloom.fm.

I hope you enjoy the show, you can find links to the stories we talked about here.

Have a great week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

digitalmusictrends.com

@digimusictrends

Happy new year to all DMT listeners! This week I'm joined by David Riley from Good Lizard Media and Clyde Smith from Hypebot. We kick off a new run of the podcast by looking at the music sales figures from 2012 coming from the US (Nielsen/Billboard) and the UK (BPI/Official Charts Company). Nothing hugely uplifting but things could be worse... We also talk about Spotify's move away from downloads in Europe, Led Zeppelin considering licensing their catalogue to a streaming services (and is there a reason for any huge act not to?) and finally we end by talking about crowdfunding and the 2013 check-list for any musician or band - especially unsigned ones -  to kick-start the year and optimise the time spent online.

You'll notice that there has been an increase in quality of the video this week BUT Skype played up big time giving us a slightly choppy audio that no amount of compressing, limiting, and EQ'ing could fix. Hope you can cope with it for this show and I promise to do my best to get a better quality audio next week.

'Till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

 

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

 

@digimusictrends

This week a special Digital Music Trends end-of-year episode: seven start-ups give us the low-down on 2012 and their outlook for 2013.

On the show: Alex White from Next Big Sound, Lee Parsons from Ditto Music, Dave Haynes from Soundcloud, Olivier de Simone from Webdoc, Nico Perez from Mixcloud, Francesco Baschieri from Spreaker, Ed Averdieck from Cuesongs.

I hope you enjoy the show, enjoy the holidays and see you in the new year!

Andrea Leonelli

@digimusictrends

After last week's raft of announcements from Spotify we spend the vast majority of the show making sense of where the company is heading. Featuring Steve Knopper (@knopps), Darren Hemmings (@mr_trick) and Eliot Van Buskirk (@listeningpost) as guest hosts we discuss Spotify's latest numbers, the potential impact on users of the upcoming features, the impact on the industry and on artists of the service (including an in-depth tangent on Youtube) as well of couse as the significance of Metallica's appearance alongside Sean Parker and Daniel Ek.

You can find all the show-notes here: http://bit.ly/dmt113notes

Hope you enjoy this week's show,  have a great week-end and 'till next time!

Soundcloud's new interface & reach numbers,  the music discovery relevancy (heated) debate, Turntable's revamp and Piki launch, the territorial expansion of iTunes & iTunes 11.

These are some of the stories we cover on this week's edition of DMT featuring Mark Mulligan (@mark_mulligan), Ben Sisario (@sisario) and Andy Malt (@andymalt) as guest hosts.

You can find the shownotes and links to all articles here: http://bit.ly/DMT112notes

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

Andrea Leonelli

http//www.digitalmusictrends.com