This week on Digital Music Trends from Andrea Leonelli, Duncan Geere (duncangeere.com) Dave Allen (north.com) and Virginie Berger (dbth.fr)  chat about Spotify's NYC announcement revealing free access to both tablet and mobile users and its potential impact as well as the company's exclusive deal with Led Zeppelin, we also chat about our music tech wish lists for Christmas, Beatport's layoffs, Pandora's alarm (and the little things that make a difference), multi-platform music services and much more.

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I really hope you enjoy the show - this week recorded in 4  countries and 3 time zones -  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 Neil Cartwright (Million Media), Syd Lawrence (wemakeawesomeshit) and Ryan Rauscher (Smix.Lab, Popakademie). We chat about Beats Music launching in January 2014, YouTube Music's upcoming service now expected in Q1 2014, the Spotify Artists initiative including the analytics play and the Topspin partnership, music-specific messaging opportunities, BT's upcoming music service, HMV's change of direction and much more.

You can find this week's shownotes here with links to all the stories: http://bit.ly/160notes

I really hope you enjoy the show, if you did make sure you subscribe to the weekly newsletter here for regular updates on new shows. Have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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A packed show this week on Digital Music Trends featuring Jim Carroll (Irish Times) and Ben Sisario (New York Times). We discuss the latest round of funding at Spotify and music tech investments in 2013, Turntable.fm's demise, Soundrop on Deezer, The Echo Nest's new advertising play, Goldieblox vs Beastie Boys, the end of the road for Winamp, Rdio's cuts, U2's latest, CMT's partnership with Clear Channel and much more...

If you'd like to read up on the stories we discussed on the show go and check out our shownotes here: http://bit.ly/159notes.

Thanks for listening, you can contact DMT on [email protected] or on twitter.

Have a great week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with David Riley (Signature Brew), J Herskowitz (Tomahawk) and Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown) about Lady Gaga's ARTPOP release campaign, Deezer's latest news, YouTube's Fan Finder initiative, Rap Genius's deals, Twitter advertising, Mixcloud's new Android app and much more. You can find this week's shownotes here.

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 panel I moderated at Social Media Week a few weeks back featuring Dave Haynes (SoundCloud), Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut (Roli), Brittney Bean (Songdrop) and Ian Hogarth (Songkick).

On the panel we look to the future as we examine the macro trends transforming the way we create, sell and consume music. Which key trends are still to play out and which are just passing fads? Are we going to see as much innovation in the next five years as in the past five? This and lots more on this hour-long panel which goes to explore some of the issues that are at the core of "Digital Music Trends"...

DMT thanks Social Media Week (http://ww.socialmediaweek.org) for having us and recording the session.

I really hope you enjoy the show, 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 it was a pleasure to welcome Benji Rogers (Pledge Music) and Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown) to the show.

We chat about the latest reports surrounding the upcoming arrival of a YouTube music subscription service, Google's reported $5m investment into Lyor Cohen's new music venture (and why is Google getting into the content business?), SoundCloud reaching a quarter billion monthly users and hooking up with Instagram, SFX's new acquisitions, Troy Carter's startup fund, Ontario's $45m music fund, the funding the situation in the UK and US and much, much more!

You can find the links to all the articles/stories mentioned in the shownotes here: http://bit.ly/DMT156

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

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction

01:55 YouTube seems to very close to rolling out its new subscription service which will have both a free and a paid tier. We debate whether YouTube is gunning for Spotify with this new service or is the demographic slightly different?

13:54 Its appears that Google has invested around £5m in a new music venture by Lyor Cohen former Warner Music Executive, why is Google interested in getting into the content side of things, does this seem like a smart move for them?

18:55 Soundcloud has reached a quarter of a billion monthly unique users onto the platform, this is a very fast growth, plus they also announced an integration with Instagram, what next?

26:48 SFX got hold of development house Arc90, Fame House and and also music start up Tunezy this week, where is it heading?

34:45 Troy Carter, Lady Gaga's manager and head of Atom Factory announced a new fund for tech start ups worth between $75-100m. Carter is very tech oriented, is this a good move for him and will it spur more managers to take a chance on technology companies?

44:40 Ontario has approved a $45m fund to be rolled out over 3 years for music, in contrast how is the funding space developing in the UK and Plegde Music in US?

54:54 Outro

This week on Digital Music Trends a great panel featuring Steve Knopper (author and Rolling Stone contributing editor), Alejandro Marin (TheMusicPimp.com and Radio DJ at La X Mas Musica) and Jules Parker (Polaroid Management). We chat about Telefonica's deal with Rhapsody to get Napster bundled into mobile contracts as well as the demise of Terra Sonora in the process, Twitter #Music facing the axe according to the latest rumors, Playlists.net updating its iOS app, HMV's PR department performing a miracle getting people to care about its app by picking up a fight with Apple, iTunes Radio reaching 20m users in a month, the David Letterman show pushing its own App and much more.

You can find the shownotes with links to all of this week's stories here: http://bit.ly/155notes

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

Andrea Leonelli

www.digitalmusictrends.com

www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to welcome Incubus manager Steve Rennie (renmanmb.com / @renman1) and journalists Eliot Van Buskirk (Evolver.fm / @listeningpost) and David Downs (davidrdowns.com / @davidrdowns) for a discussion that covered SFX's IPO on NASDAQ, David Byrne's recent Guardian op-ed on streaming, Rdio's Stratos documentary exclusive, iTunes being more expensive than Amazon, Miley Cyrus' n.1 in the UK and US, Pandora's artist stance and much more.

And you can find links to the stories we covered (and the ones we didn't get the time to cover) here: http://bit.ly/154notes

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

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

Timeline

00:24 Introduction

02:23 IPO of SFX Entertainment, debuted on NASDAQ last week and became the first public company built on EDM. Our guests give their thoughts on this music IPO...

09:24 David Byrne, author of "How music works" weighed in on the streaming debate in the Guardian, we discuss his points and where the conversation should head next...

20:44 Rdio came out this week with a free exclusive stream of the Redbull Stratos documentary, are we going to see more of these promotions from streaming services?

32:34 A study confirmed this week that iTunes a lot more expensive than Amazon. Are people ever going to make the switch based on price?

41:57 There's no such thing as bad press as Miley Cyrus scores a n.1 album in both the US and UK. What does this tell us?

49:39 Pandora had an interesting interview with CNET saying it'd like to see artists get paid more. But by whom?

01:00:24 Wrap-up & and upcoming projects from our guests...

This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to chat with Emmanuel Legrand (@legrandnetwork) and Rob MacAllister (@robowenmac). On this full show we cover the BBC launching the Playlister as a digital hub of all its music programming, HMV's 5 point plan, Muve Music reaching 2 million subscribers in the US (but do they all care about music?), Spotify integrating Songkick data deeper into the Artist pages, New Zealand simple OneMusic license, NARM and Digitalmusic.org becoming The Music Business Association, new startup Splice, the much-debated LSE Copyright and Creation paper, iTunes Radio rumored to come to the UK in early 2014 and much more.

And you can find the show notes of this week's episode including links to all the stories on http://bit.ly/153notes.

Enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

Timeline

00:28 Introduction of show and guests

01:58 The BBC launches the Playlister

13:00 HMV

19:50 Muve Music reaches 2 million subscribers

28:33 Spotify integrates Songkick dates in Artist pages...

34:30 Information piece on Digital Service Providers and getting Deals done with Sheridans

38:05 New Zealand launches the OneMusic license for public performance

43:20 New startup Splice announces funding, plans on solving music collaboration conundrum

48:05 The LSE Copyright and Creation paper stir controversy, but is it well researched?

53:04 Narm and Digitalmusic.org have been re-branded as the Music Business Association

56:20 Apple rumored to be launching iTunes Radio in the UK thanks to international deals made with labels

This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Scott Cohen founder of the Orchard and Chris Ruen, author of Freeloading: How our insatiable hunger for free content starves creativity. We discuss the new bill put forward in the US by Mel Watt to introduce performance royalty payments from traditional radio network, Soundrop's new round of funding, Beats' new investor, Spotify's Spotlight feature, Songza partnering with Foursquare and the significance of the YouTube Music Awards.

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

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends