We’re entering an era where the biggest, sold-outest festivals use livestreams as a core part of their strategy to reach larger audiences online, and build their brands globally. Two announcements yesterday continue the trend.
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Amazon Music is turning streams into ‘Get Blue’ donations
‘Get Blue’ is a campaign run by Water·org to expand access to safe water around the world. Now it’s getting an additional splash of support from Amazon Music.
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Music business ended 2025 with 921.6m paid streaming subscribers
By the end of this year, it’s quite possible that there will be more than one billion music subscribers globally.
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Amazon Music is getting pricier in India — but will also be available for free
Eight years after it launched in India, Amazon Music is changing the way it does business in the country. The audio-streaming service, which was only available to subscribers of Amazon’s […]
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Bandsintown inks its latest DSP deal – with Amazon Music
Concert-discovery firm Bandsintown now has a full set of partnerships with the Big Four global streaming services, after announcing an Amazon Music deal this week. Its concert listings will now appear […]
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Texas Attorney General launches ‘bribery’ probe of big music-streaming services
“Don’t Mess with Texas” was the slogan of a 1980s public-information campaign launched by the US state to stop people littering its highways.
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Amazon Music reveals ‘Just Walk Out’ merch plans for BTS concerts
Amazon Music has inked a merch partnership with BTS for the US, Canada and Mexico legs of their comeback tour.
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Amazon Music adds originals before Stagecoach 2026 livestream
Amazon Music’s long-running livestreaming partnership with the US Stagecoach festival continues this year, with the country-focused event due to air on Prime Video, Twitch and Amazon Music’s app from 24-26 […]
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Behind The Campaign: Fcukers
Fcukers are a New York-based electronic duo made up of Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis. They formed in 2022 and their first EP, Baggy$$, was released by Ninja Tune […]
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Reports claim 300m fans watched BTS’s live comeback on Netflix
Update: boo hiss to the Times and the Telegraph, who published the 300m figure. Netflix has since announced that the concert stream was watched by, ahem, 18.4 million people. These […]
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Amazon Music increases subscription prices in the US and UK
The music-streaming price-rises domino effect continues. Spotify’s recent decision to hike its subscriptions in the US and other key markets is emboldening rivals to follow suit. Amazon Music, for example. […]
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Amazon Music, Spotify and Shazam’s picks of the Indian artists to watch in 2026
A handful of Indian acts appear on international DSPs’ picks of the artists to watch in 2026. Three are on Amazon Music’s list of “emerging artists it expects to make […]
