Two Weeks Worth
Skipped some playlist weeks there – so here’s one that covers a fortnight.
Archive for: Playlists
Spotify Users Playlist Avg. 15,000 Songs
Speaking at the World Mobile Confgress in Barcelona, Daniel Ek said that the average Spotify user has 15,000 tracks lined up across all their playlists – a huge number, showing a really deep engagement with the platform from its users. OK, adding tracks to playlists doesn’t cost anything, but it takes time and effort to build them… Spotify hasn’t had any problems gaining users, or with the enjoyment those users get out of the service, but they’re still struggling to get more of their users signed up to the premum subscription service. As it stands, their users aren’t making them enough money per head to make a fully open launch an option, and Spotify has had to limit their intake of new customers to stop their streaming and royalty costs down. Advertising revenues are rising though, and as revenues and subscription customers increase so will the long term viability of the platform. They must be champing at the bit to launch in the US, as their competitor MOG is making good inroads into the American market.
The Sometimes Happens On A Friday Playlist
How much sample makes a cover? Some of the biggest selling rap songs do little more than add lyrics to great songs someone else has written. I don’t want to detract from the achievments of the superbly successful rap artists in this playlist, success is hard to argue with. On the contrary, it’s just interesting to hear the songs that they’ve given a second shot at the charts.
Myspace slow off the blocks integrating new tech from Imeem.
Myspace’s efforts to update their site’s music functionality by integrating technology purchased with their buyout of Imeem are plodding slowly ahead. There’s been no evidence of an update on site, but this email went out to Imeem users:
The MySpace Music team is working around the clock to duplicate your imeem playlists and make them available to you on myspacemusic.com as soon as possible. In the coming weeks, we will be emailing you with instructions on how to claim your playlists on MySpace Music, using your MySpace login. If you don’t have a MySpace account you can sign up for one here.
If you have questions about MySpace, please visit http://faq.myspace.com/app/home.
Thanks for your patience. We will be in touch soon.
- MySpace Music Team
How a net business with hundreds of millions of dollars of annual revenue can allow so much time to slip by in a market where they’re losing ground every day is hard to fathom – small as Imeem’s fire-sale purchase price may have been compared to Myspace’s turnover, their tech contribution was substantial, and constitutes a big opportunity for Myspace to catch back up to it’s competitors. One can only assume that Imeem were playing harball and not releasing anything before the lawyers had all shaken hands and inked the contracts, and are not particularly motivated by the Murdoch lash. I can see that having your company fail under you and being bought out by Darth Rupert might be disheartening.
Useful Spotify Add-Ons
Music Ally is usually a mine of information, and they’ve just published a neat little top-ten list of spin off sites that link into Spotify and help you discover music, explore other people’s collections and playlists, and all of which provide channels through which you can promote your music to people once you’ve got your music on Spotify by using our free-to-sign-up digital music distribution service 
The Self Indulgent Friday Playlist – Double H Dynamite
This is a nod to a friend of mine, who’s currently gigging and promoting an album <–[iTunes] that we’re distributing. Hopefully you’ve already got a Spotify pass, and you like funk…
We7 Launches Out of Beta With New Design and Added Features
After spending months in public beta and lots of changes to the ad supported music service, We7 is about to launch out of beta with a bang.
We7 have launched with a “Big Listen” campaign. This new service has some great new features including Free on-demand, unlimited access to full tracks and albums, “Search, Click & Play”, A ‘Celestial Jukebox’ with several million track, ‘Play Anywhere’ – a link and play system for blogs and websites, Users can create playlists, share with friends and buy mp3’s, Payments to rights owners and artists.
The first thing you will notice with the new site is that they have a completely new design. Other new additions include a Magazine, Blog and a much improved list of advertisers. Im sure we will be hearing a lot more from We7 in 2009!
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