Eternify is the Best Response Yet to Streaming Conundrum

What initially seemed to be a conversation about streaming revenues for artists more or less this week became a conversation … about Taylor Swift. But it’s the debate behind Apple Music that is somewhat puzzling. Taylor Swift wasn’t the only one focusing concerns on Apple Music’s quarterly free trial. Labels were fixated on the same […]

Apple Reality Imitates HBO’s Silicon Valley: ‘Radio on the Internet’

Silicon Valley, yet again, fails to be less weird than reality. Actual quote from the show: “So then it hits me – we could take this thing called The Radio and put it on this new thing called The Internet. And no one was doing it – no one.” In the show, to give this […]

Peter Kirn - June 9, 2015

Apple Music Deja Vu: The Same Stuff, But a Single Package

It’s not just deja vu. You’ve seen this stuff before. The basic ingredients of Apple Music are all repackaged, refined, or integrated from existing ideas. It’s Beats Music meets BBC Radio 1 meets Apple Ping, in an iOS and Android app. What you haven’t seen is all of those ingredients in one place, working together. […]

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2015

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