Is U2 really the sound of Apple?
This week’s music media hysteria is the news that U2 has released its new album, Songs of Innocence, free to iTunes subscribers – all 500 million of them. The rest of the media world is focussed on the news that Apple is now a watch-seller.
As an exercise in chutzpah, giving your album to 500million people […]
Why aren’t we all going up stream with Spotify?
Music streaming is getting closer to outdoing digital sales. The latest figures show that iTunes sales are down (after a recent peak) but Spotify streams, and more significantly subscriptions, continue to rise.
Much has been written about music streaming over the years. Tech futurist Gerd Leonard has been talking about accessing content the way we access […]