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Radio vs Streaming Australia 2026

Streaming Services Overtake Radio In Australia As Music Discovery Moves Online

by Paul Cashmere

Streaming services now reach 72 per cent of Australian adults weekly compared to 64 per cent for traditional radio, signalling a major shift in music discovery and listening habits.

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ARIA Billboard Offical Charts

Streaming Charts And Streaming Fraud: Why Modern Music Rankings Cannot Be Compared To Any Previous Era

by Paul Cashmere

Streaming platforms measure consumer behaviour differently from the physical sales era. With passive listening accounting for up to 45 per cent of streams and fraud estimates reaching 10 per cent, modern chart rankings represent a fundamentally different marketplace.

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ARIA Billboard Offical Charts

Why Streaming Charts Cannot Be Compared To The Physical Sales Era

by Paul Cashmere

Modern music charts now measure digital consumption instead of ownership, making comparisons with the physical sales era increasingly unreliable.

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Vinyl Collection

Music Industry CD Singles Strategy Reshaped Music Economics From The Album Boom To The Streaming Era

by Paul Cashmere

The music industry’s removal of the physical CD single created record revenues at the end of the 1990s but many argue the strategy also accelerated piracy and permanently changed music consumption.

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Spotify Finds Itself At The Centre Of Payola And Fake Stream Storm, As Lawsuits Push For Transparency

by Paul Cashmere

Spotify has been hit with lawsuits alleging Discovery Mode functions like pay-for-play, and that fraudulent streaming inflates play counts. Our balanced review explains the issues and implications for artists and listeners

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse Greendale tour Melbourne photo by Ros O'Gorman

Neil Young Vows To Pull Music From Amazon, Urges Fans To “Buy Local”

by Paul Cashmere

Neil Young has announced plans to remove his music from Amazon and is calling on fans to “buy local” as part of a protest against corporate control.

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Justin Bieber in Sydney

Justin Bieber Drops Surprise New Album ‘Swag II’ Weeks After ‘Swag’

by Noise11.com

Justin Bieber has wasted no time in keeping the music coming. Just weeks after releasing his chart-dominating album Swag, the Canadian pop star has unleashed a surprise follow-up, Swag II.

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Neil Young photo by Ros O'Gorman

Neil Young Withdraws from Facebook

by Noise11.com

On August 15, 2025, Neil Young officially severed his official Facebook presence. The move was a direct response to revelations that Meta’s AI chatbots were permitted to engage in “romantic or sensual” conversations with minors.

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Kate Bush Running Up That Hill

Kate Bush Thanks Fans As ‘Running Up That Hill’ Hits One Billion Streams

by Music-News.com

Kate Bush has thanked her fans after ‘Running Up That Hill’ hit one billion streams on Spotify.

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Kanye West photo by Ros O'Gorman

Spotify Confirms It Won’t Remove Racist Kanye West

by Music-News.com

Spotify boss Daniel Ek has confirmed that Kanye West’s back catalogue won’t be removed from the music streaming service following his controversial behaviour.

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Clinton Kane photo by Thomas Falcone supplied by Frontier Touring

Perth’s Billion Viewed YouTube Star Clinton Kane To Tour Australia and New Zealand

by Paul Cashmere

23-year old YouTuber Clinton Kane, who has clocked up over one billion streams, will do his first tour of Australia and New Zealand in December.

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse Greendale tour Melbourne photo by Ros O'Gorman

Spotify Share-price Continues To Tank

by Paul Cashmere

The Spotify share-price has continued to crash ever since Neil Young accused the streaming giant of distributing anti-vaccine propaganda and called out podcaster Joe Rogan, whose anti-vaxx views were just part of the problem. Rogan was also a racist with more than one hundred of his racial slurs documented via distribution on the Spotify platform.

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Spotify Shares Now Down 33.68% Since Jan 1

by Paul Cashmere

Spotify shares have continued to nose-dive, down 33.68% year to date or $82.23 as of close of business in New York on Friday (11 February).

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Neil Young. image by Ros O'Gorman

Neil Young Tells Spotify Staff To “Get Out”

by Paul Cashmere

Neil Young has told Spotify staff they should quit their job or risk losing their soul.

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NeilYoung at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl by Ros O'Gorman

Spotify Loses 19% of Subscribers Over Neil Young / Joe Rogan Controversy

by Paul Cashmere

Research company Forrester Research has found that Spotify has lost 19% of its subscribers over the past week because of the Neil Young / Joe Rogan controversy and is bound to lose more after Rogan’s racist podcasts were discovered and removed.

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

Neil Young Wiped $4 Billion Off Spotify’s Market Cap

by Paul Cashmere

Spotify’s showdown with Neil Young cost the streaming company $4 billion off its market value.

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Joni Mitchell photo from Kennedy Center

Joni Mitchell Joins Neil Young In The Big FU To Spotify

by Paul Cashmere

Nine-time Grammy Award winner, music legend Joni Mitchell has joined Neil Young in a major fuck you to Spotify.

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

Neil Young Disappears Off Spotify

by Paul Cashmere

Spotify has responded to Neil Young’s threat to withdraw from the streaming service his content down immediately.

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Neil Young. image by Ros O'Gorman

Neil Young Wants His Music Removed From Spotify

by Music-News.com

Neil Young has demanded Spotify executives remove his music from the streaming service due to their partnership with podcaster Joe Rogan.

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President Obama

President Barack Obama Reveals His Favourite Songs of 2020

by Paul Cashmere

President Barack Obama has continued his tradition of naming his favourite songs of the year.

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Beyonce photo by Ros OGorman

Beyonce and H.E.R. Protest Songs In Spotify Songs of Summer

by Music-News.com

New tracks from Beyonce and H.E.R. reflecting the global Black Lives Matter protests have been selected by Spotify chiefs among those likely to dominate users’ summer playlists.

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TISM’s Entire Catalogue Is Now On Spotify

by Tim Cashmere

TISM – arguably Australia’s most iconic slice of the alternative underground – are on Spotify and Australians aged 35 to 45 are rejoicing!

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Jay-Z - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Jay-Z Returns To Spotify On His 50th Birthday

by Tim Cashmere

Hip hop superstar Jay-Z has made his back catalogue available to Spotify after two years away from the streaming giant.

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Spotify Tells Cory Bernardi To Politely Go Fuck Himself

by Paul Cashmere

The backlash over extremist politician Cory Bernardi’s all-Australian Australia Day playlist continues. Even Spotify have washed their hands of it.

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

by Paul Cashmere

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.

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

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

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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James Arthur Say You Won't Let Go

Australian Charts: James Arthur Spends Fourth Week On Top Of ARIA Singles Chart

by Gavin Ryan

“Say You Won’t Let Go” for James Arthur is atop the ARIA Singles Chart for a fourth straight week, becoming the equal fourth longest run at No.1 for 2016 (“Love Yourself” by Justin Bieber also spent the first four weeks of the year at the top).

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Australian songwriters and publishers had a 14% revenue increase during 2014-2015 with APRA/AMCOS confirming it paid out $294,600,000 in the last financial year.

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Melbourne's Face The Music music conference has released more information about panels and artists for 2016.

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