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YouTube vs. Spotify vs. Apple Music in a Three Way Fight for Market Share in Streaming Music

By |April 17th, 2017|Categories: California, Entertainment, Europe, Featured, Google, Music News, National News, Pop Culture, San Francisco, Tech News, YouTube|Tags: , , , , , , |

Public demand has reached an all-time high for streaming music services. Recently, reports have surfaced showing how much each streaming service is paying artists. First, I want to note that it costs a lot of money to build, maintain and store servers that data is kept on for each company. When you download videos in comparison to songs, you will see a major difference in file size. That file size for one song or video is multiplied when we take in consideration how many people are using and uploading content. My solution to the music streaming service is creating

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Streaming Music Sales in the United States on the Rebound

By |April 2nd, 2017|Categories: Amazon, Economy, Entertainment, Featured, Music News, National News, Pop Culture, Tech News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The music industry has gone through some major changes since 1997. Before the Internet reached mass market, consumers would go to central record stores, produced by large-scale corporate record companies, and buy copies of albums for sale. Once Napster hit homes across the globe in 1999, music went from being controlled by a few record companies, to having thousands of independent labels rise from the ashes of the fallen major labels. As indie musicians took control of their music, they also took control of the financing and advertising their creative work. Overall, a majority of these startup record labels

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iTunes Sales Are Down, and Now Apple Wants to Block Video Recording at Music Events

By |July 1st, 2016|Categories: Economy, Entertainment, Film News, Music News, National News, Pop Culture, World News, YouTube|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The Fall of Rome Went Better Than This If television killed the radio star, Apple wants us to believe that YouTube and filming live performances killed the iTunes star. CNN reports that Apple plans to use the technology to stop illegal filming in movie theaters and concert venues. In many cases, I agree with it blocking people from filming movies and comedic acts, but disagree that all artists feel the same way about being advertised for free by their fans via online video. Apple seems to not want to invest in research and development that will empower users, but instead, they

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  • GRiZ, Big Gigantic 'Good Times' on Soundcloud.

GRiZ x Big Gigantic – Good Times Roll

By |August 12th, 2015|Categories: Big Gigantic, GRiZ, Hulaween, Music News, National News, Tech News, United States|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

[av_heading heading='GRiZ and Big Gigantic hook up for Good Times Roll' tag='h3' style='blockquote modern-quote' size='' subheading_active='subheading_below' subheading_size='15' padding='10' color='' custom_font=''] Written by: Matthew McGuire [/av_heading] GRiZ, Detriot-based producer, collaborated with Big Gigantic to 'Good Times Roll' this past summer. Scope out the new track, and catch GRiZ at Suwannee Hulaween taking place this Halloween in north central Florida. [av_one_half first] [av_icon_box position='left' boxed='' icon='ue8b9' font='entypo-fontello' title='GRIZ on tour ' link='' linktarget='' linkelement='' font_color='' custom_title='' custom_content='' color='' custom_bg='' custom_font='' custom_border=''] AUG 14 FRI The Grove StageSomerset, WI, US TICKETS AUG 28 FRI Sunset Massive 2015San Jose, CA, US TICKETS AUG 29 SAT Imagine

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MTV VMA 2015 Nominations Announcement

By |July 20th, 2015|Categories: California, Fashion, Los Angeles, MTV, Music News, National News, New York City, Pop Culture, Previews, United States|Tags: , , , , , , |

[av_heading heading='And the Nominees Are' tag='h3' style='blockquote modern-quote' size='' subheading_active='subheading_below' subheading_size='15' padding='10' color='' custom_font=''] Written by: Matthew McGuire [/av_heading] MTV has teamed with Apple Radio Beats Channel 1 to announce the nominees for the 2015 Video Music Awards. Apple is rolling out a new streaming service with perks such as breaking news, three free month trial, featured new music featuring The Pharmacy with Dr. Dre, and plenty of music to dig into. The VMA telecast will air on Sunday, August 30 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on MTV from the Microsoft Theater, formerly Nokia Theatre L.A. Live. [av_image src='https://crescentvale.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/la-et-ms-nokia-theatre-changes-name-to-microsoft-theater-20150609.jpg' attachment='10523' attachment_size='full' align='center' animation='no-animation'

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