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African streaming service Boomplay has had a massive year that has seen it’s growth boom as it approaches Apple Music’s numbers. Music streaming in Africa is seeing a boom. In the past year giant services…

Spotify are launching a new method for pitching playlists from major and independent labels to appear on Spotify’s Browse page. After arguments over whether Spotify promote their own playlists above outside influencers in the past…

Merlin has announced that they will be pulling their members music from German music streaming service Simfy. Merlin is a very large independent music licensor. Simfy failed to report royalties over the summer months (due…

AIM (Association of Independent Music) has released their latest digital sales figures for indie labels and bands and it claims that 94.4% of all indie digital revenues is via iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. Everything else is fighting over just 5.6% of the market.

Grooveshark has been having a little trouble signing the major records labels to their service. It seems that the majors try suing Grooveshark first and then sign a license deal with them later. Merlin is the latest major music company to sign with Grooveshark.