15th May 2013
Not so Daft Punks

Following one of the most ubiquitous Number One hits in recent memory with ‘Get lucky’, Daft Punk are streaming their new album on iTunes and it has already become the biggest dance album pre-order ever on Amazon.co.uk with 5 days of preorders stil to collate.
13th May 2013
Amazing grace: Back on DAB

After disappearing with a burst of birdsong a year ago, emerging music station Amazing Radioreturns to DAB today (Monday 13th May). As previously reported, the station stopped broadcasting on DAB in May 2012 following a contractual dispute with transmission network owner Digital One, becoming Internet and mobile-app only.
9th May 2013
Tunigo is spot on

Following Twitter’s acquisition of We Are Hunted in April, Spotify has confirmed that it is also dipping its toes in the music discovery stream with Tunigo. The app has been snapped up to help users navigate Spotify’s catalogue of 20 million tracks.
26th Apr 2013
Apple iCrumble?

Apple has posted its first quarterly drop in profits in a decade, following a 40% drop in the company’s stock market value. The tech giant’s net profits from January-March this year were a mere $9.5bn, down from $11.6bn last year, leaving tech analysts worldwide scratching their beards and muttering about apples falling from trees.
24th Apr 2013
Now trending: Twitter #Music

Following its launch to selected ‘Influencers’ last week, Twitter #Music has been officially unleashed. The new service has many of the features previously predicted and Twitter users can find tracks with a single tap through integration with Rdio, Spotify and iTunes.
11th Apr 2013
Ding Dong, digital isn’t dead

As ‘Ding Dong the witch is dead’ moves ever closer to the top of the singles chart, the Official Charts Company has announced that the total number of digital singles sold in the UK hit 1 billion at the beginning of this week.Since legal downloading was introduced in 2004, 50 digital retailers have reported to the OCC that sales have climbed to over three million each week, with 188.6 million tracks sold in 2012- a 6% increase on 2011, with Adele’s ‘Someone like you’ as the overall top seller.
11th Apr 2013
BPI Google a million takedowns

The BPI has announced that it removed more than a million pirate links from Google in a single week. The trade body were responsible for a million take downs between 18-25 March this year, 18 months after launching its delisting programme, which has seen more than 10 million illegal search result removals in total.
3rd Apr 2013
ReDigi re-sales ruled out

A US judge has ruled against second hand digital music site ReDigi, finding the service liable for various types of copyright infringement. ReDigi launched in 2011 with the aim of allowing people to resell MP3s bought from iTunes, in a similar way to used CDs. A lawsuit was subsequently filed by EMI / Capitol last January, with the label claiming that the site had sold over 100 of its copyrighted works without permission.
27th Mar 2013
Youtube’s billions

As inevitable debates rage on about how fair its payments to rights holders are, YouTube recently sailed past the billion unique users mark, claiming that one out of every two people on the Internet now visit the video streaming site. If that statistic wasn’t mind blowing enough, YouTube also released a load of other fun facts around the milestone, such as claiming that if it were a country, it would be the third largest in the world after India and China.
27th Mar 2013
BBC, PPL, PRS back new Copyright Hub

The Government has this week released £150,000 to help kick start the ‘Copyright Hub’, a proposed one-stop shop aimed at simplifying online copyright processes. The PRS, PPL and BBC have already pledged support and are amongst 12 organisations offering services to help get it off the ground.