No CommentToday, Spotify announces a major evolution of its service. We caught up with our friend and head of Spotify Legal, James Duffet-Smith, who gave us the exclusive:
“In what marks our most significant upgrade since Spotify’s launch in late 2008, we’re introducing a wide range of exclusive new features that will not only allow our users to discover, share and manage music more effectively, but make the overall Spotify experience more enjoyable and expansive.
We’ve all been working very hard on this. It’s a major release for us and integrating social features …
The News of the Week
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New indie music TV station ‘LAVA’ is set to launch on SKY channel 378 from March 29th Music News
Mushroom TV
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New figures show that the impact of piracy on the British music business is uncovered in new figures that show nearly 10,000 jobs could be lost in the industry by 2015 iStockAnalyst
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A newly created “trust mark” is going to be utilised for Music services such as iTunes, MySpace Music, Tesco, Spotify, HMV and Rough Trade which will highlight licensed music download and streaming sites Arstechnica
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Google stops censoring much (Press Release), but not all (Guardian), of …
The top news stories of the week
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It is estimated that Net Piracy has caused the media industries to lose £10 billion pounds in 2008. Not only money will be a losing factor, as in the future a quarter of a million British jobs could be at risk. Guardian
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The music labels love the idea of bringing people’s music collections into the cloud, meaning in web spaced storage, particularly because it might make consumers excited about buying music again NY Times
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Apple is estimated to have sold 120,000 iPads when it opened pre-orders on …
The Top News of the Week:
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BBC digital chief Erik Huggers announces plans, in an interview, to scrap 200 of the BBC’s websites, with the promise of more quality and less quantity. Guardian
And you can find the Original Guardian announcement here Huggers promises BBC cuts will leave ‘greater space for others’
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Pink Floyd have won a legal battle against EMI, meaning that their album tracks will no longer be sold individually online. BBC
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The BBC is set to begin reinventing its digital radio offering around brand extensions of its main five radio networks after the proposed …
The Top News of the Week
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BBC Radio 6 was recently doomed to closure, a decision which has caused huge outcry from the public. Rumours have spread that the BBC are reconsidering, but BBC director of audio and music Tim Davie suggests otherwise. BBC’s Tim Davie: I’m passionate about 6 Music, too – but it has to go
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iTunes representatives are asking artists to reconsider putting offering their songs on Amazon’s Daily Deal MP3 offers. Media memo
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According to research, music videos account for 30.7% of all content on YouTube. Major Music groups even …
The Top News of the Week
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Three companies have complained that Google uses unfair tactics in the war of the search engines. Google are suspected of keeping advertising prices “artificially high” and manipulating the market search engine to favour their own products, amongst other things, the search engine has come under the scrutiny of it’s main competitors. If found guilty of malpractice, Google could face a fine of up to $2.3 billion: Times
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Wired have taken a look at Google’s influence of Music in the past and present, and make predictions for the …
If you have been living under a rock this Christmas or don’t live in the UK, then you must have been aware of the Xmas battle for Number 1 in the charts: X Factor’s Joe McElderry Vs Rage Against The Machine (RATM). It’s no secret that the power of Facebook made RATM victory, so here at The Worst Kept Secret we took it upon ourselves to have a bit of fun and see what TV reality music stars have the largest presence on Social Media.
We used the big 4: Facebook …
Here are our top 5 news pieces this week:
1: Here’s a list of the most watched videos on YouTube, including music specific videos. Susan Boyle is naturally out in front, with Pitbull, Miley Cyrus and Evian’s Roller Babies advert all making an appearance: Top Youtube vids
2: Last.fm has revealed that Lady Gaga is the year’s most listened to artist. Tracks from her debut album ‘The Fame’ have been played in excess of 18.5 M times by the site’s 35M-strong community: Lady Gaga & Last FM
3: Digital distributor TuneCore has …
