Official UK Music Charts iPhone Applications
Im not really one for charts, but there are a lot of people who want to see who is leading the charts for any given time. Thus, here is the official UK Charts iPhone applications.
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Vevo iPhone App: Lets Users Watch Their Favourite Music Videos for Free on their iPhone
Online music video portal Vevo has launched its app for iPhone and iPod touch this morning (App Store link). The application is completely free and lets users find and watch music video, create playlists and more.
The app will access to Vevo’s entire catalogue, which currently stands at 20,000 videos from more than 7,000 artists. Additionally, the Vevo iPhone app will include social media sharing options, so you can tell your friends about which video you are liking via Twitter, Facebook or email. The app also ties into iPhone’s GPS feature, by letting users see what videos are being watched around their current location.
Currently the application is only available in the US, but Im sure we will be seeing it here soon in the UK.
Universal and UKs Official Chart Company Launch TimeWheel iPhone Application
Universal Music Group has launched its latest iPhone app, in partnership with the UK’s Official Charts Company. The app is called TimeWheel and is a very simple music time machine.
TimeWheel is a database of Top 40 singles and albums since 1955.
The app has also roped in UMG artists like Lady Gaga, Tinchy Stryder, Kelly Rowland, Take That, and Chase & Status to contribute their own lists of favourite songs from the past 55 years.
The app naturally ties into the iTunes Store for users to buy songs (not just Universal artists).
Vevo to Release iPhone, iPad and Android Apps
Music videos are in very high demand and they seem to be all consumed on either YouTube or sister site Vevo.
According to details shared by Vevo chief Rio Caraeff with Mashable, Vevo is now preparing an iPhone app release in July, followed by Android and iPad releases. YouTube was one of the first iPhone applications and its now good to see there will be a specific iPhone app just for music videos from Vevo.
The most anticipated feature is the addition of location. Vevo is planning on pushing local artists to localized listeners.
Slash Launches Guitar Hero Ripoff iPhone App
Slash has launched his own iPhone game to promote his new solo album. The game is just another Tap Tap/Guitar Hero ripoff! Slash Arcade Rock has with three songs from the album, and the ability to import more if players have the album on their iPhone or iPod touch.
Thumbplay Launch Their iPhone Application
Thumbplay has just launched its Thumbplay Music streaming service iPhone application. Thumbplay previously launched their Blackberry application back in March and Android earlier this month. The Thumbplay mobile application rollout is now complete.
The Thumbplay iPhone application allows users to listen to on-demand albums and singles and create playlists which are available cross platforms. Users will have free access to the application if they already have a Thumbplay paid accout.
Disclosure: Thumbplay is a partner with RouteNote and you can get your music onto their application via the RouteNote service.
Shazam Launch Shazam Encore iPhone App for Music Charts, Recommendations and Car Mode
Yesterday Shazam announced a new iPhone application called Shazam Encore. Shazam Encore is a premium version of the company’s existing iPhone app.
New features include:
- Quicker tagging
- Music recommendations
- Charts
- Car mode to automatically tag tracks that are playing on your radio.
The Encore version costs a one-off download fee of £2.99 / $4.99, although Shazam says it will continue to support the free version too – albeit limiting new users of that to five tags a month in an effort to persuade them to upgrade. That free version is one of the most popular music applications in the iTunes store which has 10 million downloads so far.
“We have listened to our iPhone and iPod touch users and have created a new app which answers their requests to take them on an enhanced music journey that will change the way music lovers experience and learn about music,” says CEO Andrew Fisher.
Spotify trying to break into American Market
Music streaming service Spotify is trying to build a viable strategy for US entry. Currently the ‘freemium’ phenomenon is active in Europe only, and is trying to tinker it’s platform into a fully balanced, financially viable form before allowing it’s user base to expand at the incredible rate they saw before they limited sign-ups to invitation only. In the brief period between the end of ’08 and September of this year during which they opened the floodgates, they upped their roster to 5 million users, roughly 2% of which have signed up to the premium service, happily shelling out £9.99 a month for ad-free streaming, access to tracks offline and on hand-held devices (synching with desktops/laptops rather than streaming live on mobile broadband). Their costs can currently be estimated to outstrip their revenue, so they’ve got to find a way of enticing more of their free users onto the paid for platform, which they can principally do by adding value to the paid for package, reducing the price (which they may consider to be a mistake, given the huge amount of music that people will still stream), or just waiting for loyalty to induce a purchase (we all love them here in the RN office). An interesting point to consider is that the major labels that have signed deals with Spotify have also been given equity equal to roughly 18% of the company, so a win for Spotify is worth more to them than building on Apple/iTunes success in the long run. From a consumer’s point of view, I don’t think a better deal could possibly come along; all the music in the world for the price of a single CD purchase a month, available to put in your pocket on your phone (for which you’re probably paying £30 a month already), seems like a silver bullet to me, generating revenue for the industry and keeping costs down for the user while cutting the pirates out of the loop. I know free is very tempting, but as most music pirates are supposedly music lovers (I enjoyed the contradiction between the IFPI and the Daily Mail’s bubblegum reading of this survey), I’m hoping that the majority will see the light. Take the money you would have spent on the terabyte hard-drive to fill up with stolen music this year, and use the money to pay the premium subscription fees and fill your ears with lovely legal music instead. There’s also the possibility of Spotify expanding into video; I for one would throw the TV out, and stop paying the license fee if I could cache music TV and film in a Steam type model. We’re one of only a handful of distributors giving our artists the opportunity to get music onto Spotify, so we really hope they can balance the model and expand their user base, making more moeny for our contributors. I’m hopeful; their advertising team is still fresh and new to the problem, and bound to increase revenues as time passes, and further innovation and the addition of bells and whistles to the premium service will only become more enticing.
New Lala iPhone Music Streaming Application Coming Very Soon!
Lala have launched a new iPhone applications in which seems very cool. Take a look at the app coming to an iPhone near you very soon!
TuneMaker iPhone app – Tenorion competitor for 59p
Our second-cousin-once-removed blog, Inappropriate Bunny posted this about Little Boots and her Tenori-on a while back, and now TheNextWeb, has dug up a couple of apps that compete with the $1,000 synthesiser for less than a GBP£. Admittedly you have to have an iPhone, and it’s not going to have MIDI control or anything like it, but if you just want to twiddle around making tunes on the tube while you go to work this looks like a pretty good option.
“TuneMaker has the look and feel of an £800 Tenori On in a 59p iPhone app. What’s more it sounds really good.” – TheNextWeb
If you don’t know what a tenorion is, check this video out:
