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Streaming is not the friend of New Music in 2018, according to data from BuzzAngle.

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Tidal Execs Claim Fake Streaming Story Was A Competitor Attack

Executives at JAY-Z’s music streaming company Tidal have denied they inflated streaming figures for albums by Kanye West and Beyonce.

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Artists To Get Screwed Big Time In 2018 As Music Streaming Increases By 50% in 2017

Music streaming had a bumper year with listening increasing by 50% over 2016 in 2017 according to a report from BuzzAngle but don’t expect to see too many artists applauding it.

Tagged as: BuzzAngle, music industry, Spotify, streaming

U.S. Senate Passes Legislation To Increase Artist Streaming Royalties

Senate Judiciary Committee Member Orrin Hatch of Utah and Congressman Doug Collins (R-Ga.) of Georgia, the Vice Chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Courts and the Internet, introduced legislation to apply free market principles to music licensing and ensure songwriters are fairly compensated for their work.

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Australian Streaming: The Chainsmokers and Halsey Still Have Most Streamed Song

The Chainsmokers and Halsey ‘Closer’ is not budging as the most streamed song in Australia.

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Australian Streaming: The Chainsmokers and Halsey Stay At No 1

The Chainsmokers and Halsey ‘Closer’ has stayed Australia’s most streamed song while people who actually buy music have moved on.

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Australian Streams: The Chainsmokers Manages To Say Ahead Of New Competition

The Chainsmokers and Halsey ‘Closer’ still have the most streamed song n Australia but expect completion next week from Niall Horan and James Arthur.

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Australian Streaming: The Chainsmokers ‘Closer’ Is Still Most Listened To Song

The Chainsmokers and Halsey ‘Closer’ is the song most Australias streamed last week.

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Australian Streaming: Closer By The Chainsmokers Is Most Played Track Still

The Chainsmokers and Halsey’s hit ‘Closer’ continues to rule both the Australian download and streaming chart this week.

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Australian Singles: Once Again It’s the Chainsmokers and Halsey On Top

The Chainsmokers and Halsey hit ‘Closer’ has stayed at no 1 in Australia for another week as Black Eyed Peas all-star ‘#whereisthelove’ starts to already run out of steam.

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Australian Singles: The Chainsmokers and Halsey Anchor At No 1

by Gavin Ryan

The Chainsmokers and Halsey retain the No.1 position on the ARIA Singles Chart for fourth straight week, also holding in the US and climbing to the top of the UK charts as of this weekend, helped by their performance together the MTV VMA’s last weekend.

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Australian Streaming: The Chainsmokers and Halsey Closer Still Most Listened To Song

The Chainsmokers and Halsey’s hit ‘Closer’ is still the most streamed song in Australia with only one change this week in the top 10 for the week.

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Australian Singles The Chainsmokers and Halsey Own Streaming Again This Week

The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey hit ‘Closer’ has remained the most streamed song in Australia again this week.

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Australian Singles: Major Lazer ‘Cold Water’ Still Top Streaming Song

Major Lazer has reversed position with The Chainsmokers as the most streamed song of the week, while Chainsmokers owns most downloaded song position.

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The Beatles Now Playing On Streaming Services

The Beatles catalogue is now streaming.

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The Beatles To Stream Before Christmas

Billboard has a bit of a blockbuster rumor circulating this afternoon. According to the magazine, the Beatles catalog will begin to roll out on at least one, and most likely many, streaming services starting Christmas Eve.

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U2’s Larry Mullen Jr Says Streaming Services Need To Pay Artists More

U2’s Larry Mullen, Jr. may not have too much to worry about when it comes to the group’s income from streaming but he certainly sees it as a problem for younger and lesser known artists.

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George Harrison Catalogue Is Now Streaming

At one point, George Harrison’s catalog was available on a number of the streaming services but it was slowly withdrawn a few years ago.

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It’s Official, Streaming Slaughters Music Sales

The day of the physical consumption of music may be ending sooner than we thought.

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It’s Now Illegal To Rip Your Own CD In The UK

A British high court has just killed a whole industry, at least if people pay attention to the letter of the law.

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UK Stream 500 MIllion Streams Per Week

With audio streaming in the UK continuing to grow at an exponential rate, music body the BPI today reveals that, according to Official Charts Company data, the landmark of 500 million weekly streams has been breached for the first time.

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Plenary, Melbourne, 2013, Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo

Neil Young Pulls Catalogue From Streaming Sites

Neil Young has joined Prince in pulling his music from all streaming services.

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James Taylor Wants Half of His Streaming Revenue

James Taylor has weighted in on the streaming revenue discussion and he says artists deserve half on the income.

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Jay-Z Launches New Streaming Service Tidal

Jay-Z held a press conference on Monday to announce his new Tidal subscription music service.

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Streaming Doubled In UK In 2014

Figures released this week by the BPI show British artists and surge in streaming help to deliver another £1 billion-plus year for the UK recorded music business.

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Streaming Becomes The New Airplay, 118.1 Billion Songs Streamed In 2013

Streaming has taken over from radio listening as the way people casually consume music in the USA. American’s streamed 118.1 billion songs in 2013.

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High Court Rejects Commercial Radio Streaming Application In Favour of Artists and Labels

The Australian High Court has ruled in favour of artists and recording labels and rejected an application by Commercial Radio Australia for a leave application that internet streaming simulcasts be covered by existing broadcast licences.

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