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The Official Charts Company (OCC) has launched the UK’s first official streaming chart, with Carly Rae Jepse floating upstream to number one ahead of the likes of Janelle Monae and Nicki Minaj.
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Research into listening and purchasing behaviour by eMusic and the Association of independent Musichas concluded that streaming is a catalyst rather than a barrier to fans buying music.
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Spotify founder Daniel Ek this week announced that, in a further move towards the Apple core, the streaming site are opening up to apps from third party developers.
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The debate around the value of Spotify to artists has flared up again, with independent distributor ST Holdings pulling their catalogue from the service and Mercury-nominated songwriter Jon Hopkins getting very vocal on Twitter about Spotify’s shortcomings. Hopkins claimed that he was paid under £10 for almost 1000,000 plays, tweeting: “Got paid £8 for 90,000 plays. Fuck Spotify", followed by: "Radio 1 pay about £50 for each play".
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In the next step towards making interaction and discovery involving music a central part of its all conquering social network, Facebook has announced partnerships with various music services, with Spotify now taking the heat for making new users log in to their service through a Facebook account.
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As widely predicted, Spotify launched in the US last week, creating a palpable stateside buzz three years after its European debut.Before crossing the streams and launching across the big pond, Spotify ensured that they had all majors and Indie representative Merlin on-board. The final major to get involved was Warner Music, seen to be the missing piece of the puzzle for some time now.
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Despite artists and fans immediately using social networking music site Turntable.fm to promote tracks, the service has been cut outside of the US due to “licensing issues”.The service allows users to discover new tracks and create a virtual club room from music streams, DJing with other members and introducing a competitive element for audience approval. Each room has up to five DJ slots, with users taking turns whilst listeners rate them as either 'awesome' or 'lame'.
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It's back- The Gen’s regular round up of the hottest new albums and tracks floating above a cloud or shimmering down a stream near you this month.
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It seems that ‘Spotify Speculation’ is becoming a regular section of The Gen. Perhaps we should just include that as a weekly feature and be done with it. This week, reports are emerging that Spotify has inked a deal with Universal in the US, paving the way for a long-awaited Stateside launch later in the year.
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As expected, Apple has this week revealed details of their iCloud platform, with some surprising features, including a ‘match’ service allowing users to integrate tracks not purchased through the iTunes store.
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