Universal Music India expects the country to emerge as a major paid music market within five years as subscriptions rise and the industry pivots away from free streaming
Non-featured artists power India's biggest songs, but remain unpaid and unnamed and in the age of digital streaming, their fight is for credit and a fair share in royalties
On Thursday, the Billboard Music Awards awarded the year's most listed albums, artists, song producers, and songwriters based on the sales metrics and streaming it gained an entire year
The musician and his accomplices allegedly set up around 10,000 fake profiles to stream these songs, carefully distributing streams to evade detection by avoiding abnormal listening spikes
Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music gets mood filters, i.e. "activity bar" with various moods to tune what appears in the Home feed on the web
In its fourth quarter (Q4) results for 2021, the company took its paid subscribers to 180 million globally, and India was one of the leading countries in terms of user growth