The iPhone continues to be overwhelmingly popular with teens, according to Piper Sandler's biannual teen survey. 85 percent of U.S. teens surveyed own an iPhone, and 86 percent plan to purchase an iPhone as their next smartphone. While the iPhone is still the most popular smartphone among teens, ownership is down from the October 2023 survey where 87 percent of teens owned an iPhone and 88 percent planned to purchase one.Both the 85% iPhone ownership and 86% intention to purchase an...
Apple Music emerges as the top choice for HomePod users -- with Spotify also very strong on the platform. Is Amazon Music evidence of a monopoly? Recent research from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has shed light on the competitive music streaming hardware landscape. It reveals that Amazon's in-house music services, Prime Music and Amazon Music Unlimited, are gaining significant traction. The popularity of Amazon Music, however, raises concerns about fair competition,...
Nashville-based independent music company Concord has agreed to buy Britain’s Hipgnosis Songs Fund for $1.4 billion, the companies said on Thursday, to gain rights to the catalogues of artists including Shakira and Neil Young. Hipgnosis, a music rights investment company founded by industry veteran and former CEO Merck Mercuriadis, launched a strategic review last year after a shareholder revolt led to a board overhaul, a portfolio revaluation, and a dispute with its investment adviser over a...
The company says there are now 26 million videos on YouTube and TikTok featuring its music Source
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Spotify is rumored to have revived plans for a new tier that will offer higher quality streams called Music Pro.
Apple has reversed course in the battle over music-streaming services in Europe. As Bloomberg News reported Friday (April 5), the tech giant has accepted demands by the European Union that it stop blocking music apps from notifying listeners of cheaper services outside the Apple app store. Now, Apple says music apps can link to developer websites and […]
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AI chatbots transformed writing, image generation, and -- most recently -- audio. Whether it is a text-to-music generator, voice cloner, or playlist generator, every day there's a new audio AI tool introduced. Now Amazon Music has jumped on the trend.Also: GPT-4 Turbo reclaims 'best AI model' crown from Anthropic's Claude 3On Tuesday, Amazon Music launched Maestro, an AI playlist generator that responds to a user's text, emoji, or voice prompt to create a new playlist with a unique selection of...
You can queue songs in Apple Music so that the tracks you want to hear play automatically, one after another. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)