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Apple’s latest podcasting moves poke holes in Spotify’s strategy

Annie Langston

24 Aug 2022

Apple

Podcasts

Spotify

Apple has been quieter than its other podcast competitors in the past, but it is continuing to develop its audio offerings. Apple’s most noteworthy attempt to expand its platform thus far was introducing...

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Is Hip Hop Keeping Female Artists Out Of The Charts?

Mark Mulligan

12 Nov 2017

charts

female artists

females in streaming

There is a gender divide in the upper echelons of popular music. In the US, Taylor Swift is the first woman to top the Hot 100 in 2017, with hits by women accounting for just 14% of all top 10 hits throughout...

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How Ed Sheeran Broke The Charts

Mark Mulligan

13 Mar 2017

Atlantic Records

charts

divide

Unless you have been hiding under a stone on Mars this last few weeks you will have struggled not to hear or see some clip of Ed Sheeran one way or another. Atlantic Record’s carpet bombing market campaign...

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YouTube Just Broke The Chart’s Back

Mark Mulligan

3 Feb 2016

artists

charts

Music

Or rather the music industry just broke the chart’s back with YouTube, although it doesn’t realise it yet. And here’s why… It is normal when switching between old and new worlds to use equivalents,...

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