The London-listed company, which makes money every time one of the songs to which it owns the rights are played, almost doubled revenues from $82m to $160m in the year to the end of March.
This was fuelled by a $1bn (£722m) spending spree on evergreen hits during the pandemic, with Hipgnosis buying the rights to 84 song catalogues last year, including those of artists such as Shakira and Debbie Harry.
Apple Music is missing one major thing: a classic iPod to go with it - The Verge
The other, perhaps more obvious reason, is that the iPod is a music-centric device, and Apple literally has a service called Apple Music. The company is currently in love with services revenue, but many of its devices just aren't that great at playing music.
Most of, if not all, of Apple's devices also can't play the highest-end lossless files that Apple Music can now deliver without additional hardware. This means that Apple doesn't sell something it can point to and say "this is the best Apple Music experience you can get, period.
A Little Night Music review – Opera North brings musical gains but dramatic loss | Opera North |
As the most operetta-ish of Sondheim's shows, A Little Night Music has been (with the most operatic, Sweeney Todd) evidence for the view that Sondheim marries Broadway with the opera house. (Night Music's first three New York revivals were operatic not theatrical.)
James Brining's production – on a Madeleine Boyd set that uses an ornamental fountain to comic and concealing effect – confirms that such hybrid stagings trade musical gain for dramatic loss, and even more so with this show.
Gamble & Huff mark 50 years of Philly Soul and socially conscious music
By the early 1970s, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff were regularly meeting in Gamble's office by an upright piano with a list of titles and a tape recorder to talk about the news or what was happening throughout Philadelphia.
"It was like Gamble and Huff at the Apollo, man," Huff recalls. "Gamble would be singing, and I'm playing. Once we got started, we didn't stop; as fast as I was figuring out which chord to play next, Gamble could write lyrics off the top of his head. It was an amazing time."
The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News | The Music Man: An Interview with Larkin Stallings
Larkin Stallings has spent 40 years opening and running bars, restaurants and nightclubs, mostly in Houston, Texas. How he arrived on an island off the coast of Massachusetts and how he came to own the iconic Ritz on Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs is a Vineyard story of the best kind.
Belinda Carlisle can't listen to her own music | Entertainment | insidenova.com
Belinda Carlisle has admitted she never listens to her own music and some of her later solo LPs bring back bad memories of her addiction struggles.
The pop icon - whose global hits include 'Heaven Is a Place on Earth', 'Leave a Light On' and '(We Want) The Same Thing' - admits she avoids her own songs and will only revisit her tracks if she is preparing for a tour and has to get the arrangements and melodies right.
When Arabic music meets Beethoven | Music | DW | 05.07.2021
Echoing Beethoven's humanistic spirit, the musical project "1001 Beats between Bonn and Babylon" fosters dialogue between Eastern and Western traditions.
The first thing that was apparent during the concert at Bonn's Trinitatiskirche on Sunday was its relaxed atmosphere.
'Set the Night to Music' returns to downtown Williamsport for Fourth of July 2021 | News,
After a year’s exile to Hughesville Festival Grounds, Backyard Broadcasting’s Set the Night to Music Fireworks 2021 show is back on in downtown Williamsport.
Last year, state guidance resulted in Set the Night to Music’s festival being moved to the Hughesville fairgrounds.
Musicians Who Quit Music and Completely Changed Careers
Making it as a musician can mean adulation from millions, world tours and inconceivable wealth, making it a dream job for many aspiring stars.
However, when people actually attain that dream, some can decide stardom is not for them and leave music to embark on an entirely new career.
Spotify offers its streaming service to more African countries - Marketplace
Africa is wide open for music streaming. Swedish streaming behemoth Spotify has spread its footprint to more than 40 African countries , adding many this year to the handful where it had been available since 2018.
“We didn’t just want to be another music service. We wanted to really provide a true combination of global and local music and content for Africa,” he said.
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