Streaming Music Services
Spotify: the biggest music company in the world
Alex Behan looks at the latest moves from streaming giant Spotify. Audio
Screw the charts, 2017's been a great year for NZ Music
Joanna Hunkin painted a pretty dark view of the state of our local music industry in a NZ Herald article last week, but is chart success even worth worrying about? Includes top 11 NZ music moments of… Video, Audio
Strong growth in music industry revenue, but local content only makes up 7% of streaming
Damian Vaughan from Recorded Music New Zealand helps Music 101's Alex Behan break down recent figures showing a double digit rise in music earnings for the second year running. Audio
2016 - music by the numbers
We're listening to more music than ever, vinyl sales are up, and streaming numbers are at a record high, but is anyone making any money? Video, Audio
Music Streaming: Spotify and SoundCloud Go
The global business of music streaming services is going off. This week SoundCloud's launching a paid subscription service called Go and Spotify's raising US$1 billion as it gears up for a public… Audio
Vulfpeck on Sleepify
Just over a month ago US funk group Vulfpeck released an unusual Spotify only album called Sleepify. 10 songs, around thirty seconds each, all completely silent. In an accompanying video, the group… Audio
Spotify bandwidth
A listener called Paul is having some issues with his internet data plan blowing out recently, and the culprit's the popular music streaming service, Spotify. Our tech correspondent Peter Griffin… Audio
Tech news: Spotify
Peter Griffin on the news that Spotify, the online music streaming service, has opened for business here in New Zealand. Plus why are people suing Facebook after its IPO last week? Audio