In this highlights of the past seven days of music industry news, we check in on Shazam, which just surpassed a billion tags per month, vinyl’s struggle to keep up with consumer demand, Spotify’s bid to challenge Clubhouse, and more.
- Shazam surpasses 1B Shazams per month
- Vinyl demand is skyrocketing, and production can’t keep up
- Spotify launches live audio app Greenroom challenging Clubhouse
- Facebook, Instagram add free music distribution via TuneCore, DistroKid
- Apple Music For Artists adds new features
- Music industry gets a D for racial diversity in new Annenberg study
- Meet the Top 50 social media influencers
- 3 live show formats likely to come back first after the pandemic
