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Make music like the pros with Spotify’s music production

Spotify is introducing educational for aspiring music makers and audio creatives with the testing of its video-based courses, currently only available to UK users. The streaming giant is teaming up with educational tech pioneers like BBC Maestro, PLAYvirtuoso, Skillshare, and Thinkific, aiming to provide a multifaceted learning experience integrated into its renowned music streaming service. Learn to make music on Spotify! Spotify’s new video courses cover a broad spectrum of subjects including Music Production, Creative Arts, Business, and even Wellness. “With roughly half of our Premium subscribers engaging in education or self-help-themed podcasts, we see a tremendous opportunity to cater to our users’ thirst for knowledge,” stated Babar Zafar, VP of Product Development at Spotify. “Our goal is to offer quality content from video course creators that resonate with our highly engaged community.” The courses, categorized under themes like “make music,” “get creative,” “learn business,...

AfroCharts VS Mdundo & Boomplay Africa's Top 3 Music Music Streaming Giants

AfroCharts: Afro charts is a great site considering that it put every song to charts according to countries its a great site to get noticed and to get appreciated.It also accepts artist from every african countries they are also working on paying artist royalties according to the revenue they bring in. Mdundo:Mdundo is good music website but little as change to make it more appealing to the public over the last ten years.The good thing about mdundo is you get paid when your earnings reach Ksh 7000 so yes they pay people.The site is also simple and easily to understand it covers East and West Africa. Boomplay: Boomplay is a streaming platform and a distribution platform it also concentrates on high performing artist.Boomplay is a good platform but you sign up using a third party this makes it challenging for upcoming artist.Its also a subscription based service that means it brings in money directly from consumers. There are other online blog sites especially in west africa but those on...

Who is Mdundo? The Kenyan streamer with huge growth

A promising year for the African music streaming service sees it step onto the global stage and look towards joining the major players in digital music. Mdundo are a music streaming service based in Kenya and operating in sub-Saharan Africa . You may not have heard of them before but you’re sure to be hearing a lot more about them. Following stunning growth in 2023, the music streaming service is well on its way to becoming a significant global player. Mdundo ended 2023 with 30.8 million monthly active users. That represents 16% growth in their service from June 2023, putting them well on the way to their goal of 50 million by 2025. Even more impressive, their subscription revenue grew a whopping 48% year-on-year. Subscriptions now make up the majority of their income, accounting for 55% in 2023. For reference, Spotify is the most popular dedicated music streaming service in the world. They recently announced 602 million active users. That puts Mdundo at just over 5% of the monthly use...