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This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to welcome Darren Hemmings (Founder, strategic digital marketing consultancy Motive Unknown).

We start by discussing Snapchat's music feature, its potential and the potential headaches it may generate from a licensing point of view.

We also chat about Apple's quest for a music journalist/editor in London which seems to confirm earlier reports of a curation-centred strategy, MTV's new Play and Trax apps and other low-cost streaming options, YouTube's move against channels bypassing its ads network with embedded sponsored spots, the GoFundMe campaign to support the 'Amen Break' songwriter and UK Music's manifesto released ahead of the UK's general election.

I really hope you enjoy the show,

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to welcome Lee Knife, the Executive Director at the Digital Media Association (DiMA - digmedia.org) and Emmanuel Legrand, US Editor at Music Week.

On the show we continue the discussion started last week around the "Copyright and the Music Marketplace" released by the US Copyright Office, this time focusing on some of the criticisms brought forward by DiMA.

Emmanuel and I then go on to chat about the news of the week including Zane Lowe's move to Apple and what that means for the approach to curation of the upcoming iTunes streaming service, songwriters voicing their concerns around royalties in Sweden and elsewhere, Pandora's new Artist Audio Messaging feature, Vessel's deal with Universal Music for video exclusives, UMG's investment to make sure the recording facilities at Abbey Road Studios remain state of the art for decades to come and much more.

I really hope you enjoy the show,

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on the show it was a real pleasure to welcome Andrew Dubber (musictechfest.org) and Steve Knopper (Rolling Stone) to the show.

We start by discussing Jay-Z's acquisition of Aspiro, which includes the WiMP and TIDAL streaming services.

We also chat about Spotify's reported fundraise, Missy Elliott's Super Bowl comeback, Show.co's new gating feature, the music industry's relationship with leaks, Music Tech Fest and the Music Bricks project, SoundCloud's iPad app and much more.

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends it was a real pleasure to welcome Jay Frank (Digsin) and Ben Sisario (New York Times) to the show.

The first part of the show is devoted to a discussion around Zoe Keating's blog from last week, which highlighted some important issues on the terms imposed by YouTube on independent artists if they want to continue to monetise their content on the platform.

We also talk about Spotify's coup in securing a partnership with Sony PlayStation that will see the company scrap its Music Unlimited Service (that never really took off...), the positive and negative aspects of the new Touch Preview feature on iOS, the decline of the Australian music market which registered another 10% drop in 2014, iHeartRadio's latest numbers and Pandora's next move, Sly Stone's royalties lawsuit, transparency in the music industry and much more.

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

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends a packed show featuring Sammy Andrews (Head of Digital, Cooking Vinyl) and Duncan Geere (Freelance Journalist) as well as an appearance from Deezer US' CMO Beth Murphy to tell us about the Muve acquisition.

On the show we tackle the news that Apple has acquired Semetric (better known for the Musicmetric product), the UK Business Secretary's call for a single European digital marketplace, Primary Wave's merger, the amazing resilience of physical sales in Germany, Rdio's executive hires in Europe, Sonisphere's cancellation and the Rock In Rio Vegas line-up, Placebo's deal with Kobalt and TLC's Kickstarter campaign.

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

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Vickie Nauman (CrossBorderWorks Consulting) who tells me all about the most exciting music-related gadgets she found on the show floor at CES in Las Vegas. We also cover the two biggest news of the week, Deezer's acquisition of Muve Music and Spotify reaching 15 million paid subscribers. Finally on this episode I also a chat with Siggi (Sigtryggur Baldursson), the MD of Iceland Music Export, recorded in Groningen. Iceland is the focus country at 2015's edition of Eurosonic and we discuss Icelanding acts, the live and recorded music markets as well as Iceland Airwaves.

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

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on DMT it was a real pleasure to welcome Robert Singerman (Dotmusic, Caribbean Music Summit) and J Herskowitz (Tomahawk) to the show to chat about the first music tech news of the year.

On this Episode we tackle US music sales for 2014, the launch of the Pono music store as the device is nearing commercial availability, the Caribbean Music Summit, UMG and Havas partnering, PJ Harvey recording her next album in a box in front of an audience, DJ Qubert's vinyl/MIDI controller and iTunes' 14-days return policy in Europe.

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

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to record the last episode of the year with Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown). On this show we combine a 2014 year-end recap with some of the news from the past week. We share what we thought were the most interesting (& the most disappointing) news stories of the year and I attempt a 4-minute month-by-month summary.

On the news front we cover MixCloud's latest stats as I'm joined by the company's co-founder Nico Perez, we discuss Beatports' reported entry in the streaming space, the BBC Music On The Beat conference, Shazam's app overhaul, Sony's hack and Snapchat, Bose reportedly working on a music streaming offering and much more.

DMT will resume the first week of January, in the meantime have a great holiday break and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends it was a real pleasure to welcome Glenn Peoples (Sr. Editorial Analyst, Billboard), Andy Malt (Editor, CMU) and Mandar Thakur (COO, Times Music India).

We start by talking about Apple's suit including the difficulties the prosecution is having finding plaintiffs and we cover YouTube's new rights database that video creators will be able to consult before using a copyrighted track on their video.

Then Mandar Thakur from Times Music joins me to chat about the evolution of the digital music market in India over the past 12 months.

After that interview we chat about Grooveshark's new radio service, the Pirate Bay raid, SoundCloud reportedly working on another funding round, the vinyl boom and the iPod Classic's price soaring.

I really hope you enjoy the show.

Have a great week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

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