This week on Digital Music Trends it was a real pleasure to welcome Theda Sandiford, VP of Digital Marketing at Republic record, and Dave Haynes, Head of Business Development at Makeshift.io, to the show.

We chat about: - The latest figures released by Nielsen Soundscan on US music sales for the first 6 months of 2014

- The evolution of MCNs and Rightster's acquisition of Base79 for £50 million

- Ariana Grande's campaign which recently drove over a billion Twitter impressions in 24 without spending any money on advertising

- Makeshift.io and Dave's interest in tech startups related to music creation

- Taylor Swift's editorial on the future of the music industry, reactions?

- Samsung pushing hard on Milk with slick advert, reveals the app reached 2 million downloads

- RapGenius closing a deal with Warner/Chappell: with all three major publishers signed, what next?

Thanks as always for tuning in and I hope you enjoyed the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends a special episode featuring Emmanuel Legrand and David Downs as well as the executive chair of IMPALA Helen Smith and the CMO of Soundrop Thomas Ford.

We open the show by talking with Helen about the antitrust complaint IMPALA recently filed against YouTube with the European Commission, we discuss what the complaint is all about, the timeline, potential outcomes and lots more.

After that we hear from the Chief Marketing Officer of Soundrop Thomas Ford who tells us all about the company's new product aimed to support artist's marketing efforts called Show.co.

Finally in the news section we tackle Google's acquisition of Songza, Rdio's acquisition of TastemakerX, Soundcloud's new app (pros and cons), RIAA Digital Platinum certifications and lots 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 it was a pleasure to welcome Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown) and Jules Parker (Polaroid Management) as we power through the week's news in digital music including:

- a lengthy debate on the inclusion of streaming data in the UK's streaming chart

- an analysis of T-Mobile's Music Freedom initiative: does it endanger Net Neutrality?

- another development in the YouTube Music saga as the contract proposed to independent labels leaks, is the fight becoming too public?

- the BBC's new music strategy

- Patreon's new round of funding

.... and much more....

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 welcome Duncan Geere (duncangeere.com) and Dan Koplowitz (friendlyfirerecordings.com) to chat about the latest music tech news. The show also features an appearance from Eric Jones, founder of merch startup Sidestep.

This week we start by tackling reports stating that YouTube is about to "pull" independent music videos from the service (and debate what that "pulling" may look like...), talk about Amazon's new Prime Music service, BitTorrent Bundles reaching 100m downloads and Streams, Spotify's new Web API and tighter Echo Nest integration, Deezer's new round, Samsung integrating Spotify Connect in its new Series M speakers 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 special show focusing on the Brazilian Music Industry. It was an absolute pleasure chat about the state and evolution of the music market in Brazil with Luciana Pegorer, founder of label Delira Musica and Managing Director of ABMI - the Brazilian Independent Music Association - Marcelo Soares, the CEO of Som Livre - the biggest independent music label in Brazil - and Robert Singerman, head of the Brazil Music Exchange in North America.

We cover a huge variety of topics including the evolution of the Brazilian music market over the past 20 years, the impact of digital services and the different approaches seen so far in terms of commercial partnerships, licensing local catalogue to new international services, collection societies, the importance of music videos, the importance of YouTube for digital music revenues and the current indie battle around its streaming service, the impact of the World Cup and the upcoming 2016 Olympic Games on the local music industry.

I really hope you enjoy this show, it was really great fun preparing it and researching the Brazilian market.

Have a fantastic week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends it was a real pleasure to welcome Ben Sisario (New York Times) and Eriq Gardner (The Hollywood Reporter) to the show as we discuss - at long last - Apple's official announcement of the Beats Acquisition, WWDC, independent label associations coming down hard on YouTube and preparing to file a complaint with the European Union, Amazon's possible entry in the on-demand streaming space, the Department of Justice reviewing ASCAP and BMI's consent decree, MPAA and RIAA working to make sure Megaupload's assets stay frozen, Ticketmaster's tentative settlement and Stubhub launching a music app.

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 I chat with Vickie Nauman - former President of 7Digital in North America and now at CrossBorderWorks consulting - about her experience at Music Matters in Singapore, the independent music organisations lashing out against YouTube, the so-almost-closed deal between Apple and Beats (which closed a few hours after our recording), the launch of Next Big Book, Audiam moving beyond YouTube, the new real-time Billboard charts powered by Twitter.

In the show I also interview the CEO of LyricFind Darryl Ballantyne on the company's recent deal with UMPG and its partnership with BandPage.

Finally we also mention the new app Tunepics and the release of Dejay 2 for iPad and iOS with Spotify integration.

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

Andrea Leonelli

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This week a really packed episode of Digital Music Trends: my guests are Christiane Kinney (http://musicalredhead.com & partner at LeClairRyan) and Alejandro Marin (http://lamasmusica.com & http://themusicpimp.com), but on this show we also have appearances from Andreas Liffgarden co-founder of Soundtrack Your Brand who talks to us about Spotify Business, the CEO of Upfront Ray Lee the company that created the Deadmau5 subscription app and an extract from my interview with Jeremy Silver on his new book Digital Medieval.

On this week's show of course the we cover the short-lived possibility of Twitter acquiring SoundCloud, the lawsuit against Beats Music, the Michael Jackson hologram at the Billboard Music Awards, the majors making an investment in Shazam, and Lovelive tv launching on LG smart TVs.

I really hope you enjoy the show and please do send any feedback you may have on what we talked about or on stories we may have missed out on to [email protected] or to @digimusictrends on Twitter.

Have a fantastic week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends a real pleasure to have Lucy Blair and Darren Hemmings as guests on the show, which also features interviews with the CEO of Dubset Media Bob Barbiere and the CEO of Yonder Adam Kidron.

Of course we open with a discussion on the Beats Electronics/Music and Apple acquisition story, which has generated a significant amount of press whilst unconfirmed by either company.

We also chat about the successful Kickstarter for a limited release of a rare Aphex Twin record, news on the anti-piracy front as we look at a study from Sweden that shows the impact of the iPRED law, the new HADOPI guidelines and the UK ISPs considering sending some letters to naughty customers.

Finally we chat about Last.fm as it just emerged that Spotify tried to acquire the company before it got hold of The Echo Nest. In between these stories of course the interviews with Yonder and Dubset Media.

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

Andrea Leonelli

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This week DMT was recorded in front of a live audience at the Great Escape Festival in Brighton. During the show we alternate the week's news stories with discussions around the main subjects being tackled at the conference. I'm joined on stage by Chris Carey (Media Insight Consulting), Fred Bolza (Sony Music), Cliff Fluet (Lewis Silkin, Eleven) and Andy Malt (CMU).

We chat about YouTube royalties and Kobalt’s ProKlaim platform, the future of direct to fan, tv and music streaming, Bloom.fm looking for a buyer, AT&T irumoured to be selling Muve Music, Pandora’s new promoted stations, Rhapsody investing in Dubset, the future of the global recorded industry, Charles Caldas on breakage and Sean Combs' plans with Revolt.tv.

I really hope you enjoy the show, hopefully I'll get the chance to record more live shows at events this year, it was fun!

Have a fantastic week and 'till next time

Andrea Leonelli

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