Hosts: Andrea Leonelli, Neil Cartwright, Tony Hymes

This week on Digital Music Trends we chat about Yahoo's Aviate and its new music functionality, the Brit Awards and the use of Twitter Amplify (sponsored by VO5), Spotify's rumored IPO - pros and cons?, Russian social network vKontakte getting an earful on piracy from the US and the UK, streaming service Dhingana shutting in India, the iTunes Festival announcing a SXSW stint and much more...

You can find this week's shownotes with links to all the stories here: http://bit.ly/DMT171notes

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

Andrea Leonelli

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Hosts: Andrea Leonelli, Kristelia Garcia (kristelia.com), Karim Fanous (MusicAlly.com), Darren Hemmings (motiveunknown.com).

This week on DMT: a round-up of the recorded music revenues from 2013, an industry for or against YouTube?, Beats Music's AT&T partnership, Spotify's deal with The Times, Shuffler.fm's new "Pause" app and Sonos integration, the latest on the ASCAP/BMI rate court battles.

You can find the show on iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio and Spreaker. You can find this week's shownotes with links to all the stories we talked about here.

This week's show is brought to you by CI, leading provider of digital supply chain services to the world’s premier independent music companies. Check them out on ci-info.com.

I really hope you enjoy the show, if you did don't forget to share it and forward it on it really makes a big difference. Have a fantastic week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends a MIDEM 2014 special to savour:  sit back, relax and enjoy this one since guests include Charles Caldas (Merlin), Luis Justo (Rock in Rio), Benji Rogers (Pledge Music), Mel Brown (Impressive PR), Mandar Thakur (Times Music), Ken Hertz (Hertz, Lichtenstein and Young LLP), Scott Cohen (The Orchard), Norman Abdul Halim (Malaysian Recording Industry), Denis Ladegaillerie (Believe) and Jordan Berliant (The Collective).

We chat about anything and everything in this expansive show on the state of the music industry in 2014 with a particular international focus and an eye on the independent sector. The full interviews will appear in due time on the DMT YouTube and SoundCloud channels - there will be a new one uploaded every day during February.

DMT's coverage of Midem 2014 wouldn't have been possible without the help of CI, leading provider of digital supply chain services to the world's premier independent music companies. Check them out on ci-info.com.

I really hope you enjoy the show, feel free to share this one as much as you can!

Have a great week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends Pete Jimison (efsharp.com) and Clyde Smith (Hypebot.com) join me to chat about SoundCloud's new round, Last.fm, the Grammys, Prince suing fans and then taking it back, Rap Genius' UMPG deal and new mobile app, Baidu's new wireless box in China, Sweden 2013 figures and more...

Unfortunately we suffered a major glitch in the video version of the show (as is obvious) but this is the last time we shoot the show with the old equipment so hopefully it won't happen again in the future!

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 Eamonn Forde, Lucas Gonze and Adam Webb in a very streaming-oriented show kicking off with the headline story that is the launch of Beats Music in the United States and its potential impact on the streaming market. We also cover Kim Dotcom's soft launch of Baboom, Spotify's merch integration via TopSpin as well as the lifting of its time limits for users of the ad-supported version internationally, Rdio's new ad-supported service in the US and much more...

You can find all the links to the stories we talked about (and a few that we didn't get the chance to cover) right here: http://bit.ly/DMT167notes. You can also find Eamonn's story on Kim Dotcom on the Music Ally website here and Lucas' current project 2ndline TV here.

Don't forget that if you enjoy the show and would like to support it you can now do so with a small voluntary monthly donation, head on to http://www.digitalmusictrends.com for more details.

I really hope you enjoyed this week's episode, 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 chat with Andrew Dubber (Birmingham City University, Music Tech Fest), and Camille Ainsworth (Charm Factory), we discuss the latest Nielsen data on streaming in the US, Pandora's growth, Mixcloud's new website, Whyd's funding, the potential partnership between Samsung and Deezer, Playlists.net acquiring Topsify's playlists, the power of curation and much more...

You can find out links to all the stories discussed in the shownotes here.

You can find out all about Andrew Dubber on andrewdubber.com and about Music Tech Fest on musictechfest.org, and you can find out more about Charm Factory on charmfactory.co.uk.

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 Martyn Davies (Sendgrid, MusicHackDay) and Ben Graham (StrategyEye). In a pretty tech-focused show we discuss Gracenote's sale to Tribune and the Gracenote Rhythm announcement, we also chat about Google giving Rap Genius a slap on the wrist, Beats Music's latest rumors, CES gadgets, Gaga lashing out over Artpop and much more!

You can find the shownotes for this week's show here: http://bit.ly/DMT165

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

Andrea Leonelli

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Timeline:

01:00 Introduction

01:35 Gracenote changes hands from Sony corp. to Tribune co. and launches Gracenote Rhythm

13:38 EX.FM to shut down on January the 15th

18:15 Rap Genius slapped on the wrist by Google

24:17 CES: Pebble's App store and Sonos has some competition from Pure and Samsung

30:20 Beats Music rumors: a big marketing push (Super Bowl big?) & AT&T partnership

38:25 BPI and Nielsen Soundscan release 2013 recorded music sales

43:47 Gaga lashes out over Artpop

48:38 Latest news headlines

49:30 Outro

This week on Digital Music Trends a show presenting extracts from the interviews I carried out over the course of 2013 at Midem, SXSW, The World Creators Summit, Music Connected, Future Music Camp and more.

From digital distributors to major labels to artists, startups and government representatives, there's a bit of everything in this year recap. You can of course find the full-length versions of the interviews carried out by Digital Music Trends on the Soundcloud and YouTube  channels.

Includes extracts of my interviews with Lang Lang, Jean-Michel Jarre, Axel Dauchez (Deezer), Robert Ashcroft (PRS for Music), Maria Pallante (US Copyrights Office), Katie McMahon (Soundhound), Brian Felsen (CDBaby), Kevin Wortis (Girlie Action), Benji Rogers (Pledge Music), Vickie Nauman (7Digital), Theda Sandiford (Republic Records), Eric Davich (Songza), Ulysses Huppauff (Odyssey Music Network), Peter Burgner (BMW), Lucy Blair, Laura Kirkpatrick (Spotify), Ebony Rhiney-James (Sony Music).

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and happy new year!

Andrea Leonelli

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Hope you're having a good holiday break wherever you are! In this special episode of Digital Music Trends I chat with Jim Lucchese the CEO of music intelligence company The Echo Nest. The company was started in 2005 in Boston, MA and has experienced tremendous growth over the past couple of years with over 400 applications built on its platform.

We chat about the company's evolution, its products including a recent foray into ad targeting and the challenges posed by the integration of music from all over the world.

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 had the pleasure to welcome Glenn Peoples (Billboard), Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown) and Michael Roffman (Consequence of Sound). We chat about Beyoncé's surprise album release and its potential impact on the industry, discuss the news stories that influenced 2013 and may also be relevant through 2014 and finally talk about the future of innovation for music apps and services using the iTunes best-of 2013 list as a springboard.

Quite how we managed to stretch these three subjects to well over 1 hour and 10 minutes is beyond me but it was a really fun show - you'll have to tune in to figure it out!

This is the last "news" show for 2013 but there will be a couple of specials coming in the next two of weeks: an interview with The Echo Nest's CEO and a "DMT around the world in 2013" show with snippets of some of the best interviews I recorded this year so look out for them!

Have a fantastic week, happy holidays and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

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