It’s a year since the release of Lorde’s fourth album, ‘Virgin’, and she celebrated the anniversary by dropping 49 demos.
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Universal Music New Zealand launches nextWAV development program
Emerging artists in Aotearoa (the Māori-language name for New Zealand) are facing “increasing challenges… cutting through both locally and internationally” according to Universal Music New Zealand. Now it’s doing something […]
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Live Nation ANZ adds photographers to its ‘Next On’ initiative
Live Nation’s Australia and New Zealand business recently launched a ‘Next On’ scheme that aims to support developing artists – and now music photographers too. The scheme enables artists to play […]
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APRA Amcos warns of declining stream-share for local music
If you make a habit of reading music-industry body annual reports, you’ll be familiar with the ‘growth, but’ dynamic. Even when revenues are up, there is always a threat to […]
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Spotify tests ‘managed accounts’ for children on its service
Spotify has launched a pilot of a new Premium account for children who are using its service. The test is starting in Denmark, New Zealand and Sweden, and is being […]
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Apra Amcos report predicts potential revenue hit from AI music
Australasian music-rights body Apra Amcos has published a report focusing on generative AI technologies, based partly on a survey of more than 4,200 of its members in Australia and New Zealand. […]
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Music Ally Quarterly Report :: International Focus 2023
This report contains all of Music Ally’s Country Profiles from the last 12 months, so you can spot the music industry trends across the regions that are most important to your work.
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New Zealand ‘punches above its weight’ for music subscriptions
Away from the glare of global attention, the music industry in New Zealand has been enjoying a sustained streaming-led boom.
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Country Profile – New Zealand 2023
New Zealand’s recorded music industry is helping to prove that small can mean beautiful, with revenue on the rise and domestic talent performing well.
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Facebook secures music licensing deal for Australia and New Zealand
As part of its concerted efforts to clear rights for music in a UGC context on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Oculus, the social media giant has now signed deals covering Australia and New Zealand.
The deal with APRA AMCOS (the Australasian Performing Right Association and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society), which represents, 95,000 songwriter and publisher members, will ensure remuneration for use of their copyrights on the tech company’s assorted platforms.
“This is a landmark deal not just for songwriters, composers and music publishers, it also provides the Australian and New Zealand public with peace of mind that music rights holders will be compensated for the use of their works on Facebook,” said Dean Ormston, chief executive of APRA AMCOS, in a statement.
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New Zealand study reveals Spotify overtaking YouTube for music
A new study of entertainment habits for New Zealanders has some interesting findings about the music-streaming landscape there. The survey was conducted by New Zealand On Air, the body that funds audio and visual public-media content in New Zealand, and follows similar studies in 2014 and 2016.
Among the findings: 67% of 15-39 year-olds in New Zealand reported streaming music online in the past day, compared to 47% listening to live radio. The data suggests Spotify has overtaken YouTube as a source for streamed music too: in 2016 Spotify’s daily reach was 14% of respondents compared to YouTube’s 20% – this is for music specifically – but in 2018 that has switched to 23% and 19% respectively. YouTube’s reach as a general online-video service has increased from 35% to 42% over that two years, though.
