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Sony acquired Believe Digital for up to $444M


(News from Reuters)  
Sony Corp is in the final stages of talks to buy French music distribution and label services provider Believe Digital, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.

Sony Music Entertainment will get a majority stake from the current shareholders for about 40 billion to 50 billion yen ($355.3 million-$444.1 million), the Japanese business daily reported.

The transaction is expected to close this year, according to the Nikkei report.

Both Sony and Believe Digital did not immediately respond to requests for comment.



SynaptiK now on iTunes chart


DeFox Records and Heart Of Steel Records are happy to announce the great result for british band SynaptiK now on iTunes chart.

British heavy metal five-piece, Synaptik from Norwich, UK unleashed their anticipated sophomore album, “Justify & Reason” on March 10th 2017 worldwide digitally throughDefox records and physically in the US via Divebomb records but April 10th it lands in various UK stores.





Digital Radio Tracker offer valuable chart information for artists, labels and managements


DigitalRadioTracker offer valuable chart information for internet radio spins, a growth area that has always been impossible to know how many listeners are reached or how many times a song is played. 

DigitalRadioTracker tracks 5,000+ radio stations worldwide, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Although most are internet radio stations, they've also included some terrestrial, college, commercial and non-commercial stations. This gives access to a good balance of radio beyond the traditional terrestrial FM stations that BDS or Mediabase offer. I can affordably purchase reports for projects (mine or the competition’s) to see the number of spins they are getting or have gotten historically, in what areas, on what stations, and how much total audience was reached.

DigitalRadioTracker has proven extremely effective for use in planning tours, promotional campaigns, soliciting performances, and directly targeting a specific marketplace. Breaking new artists or gaining awareness for new projects for any artist is extremely challenging and without feedback and data, it becomes nearly impossible. 

Since internet radio is less encumbered by “pay for play” than traditional radio, it signals that these markets contain an organic and authentic following of fans who have discovered the music on their own. For more established artists, it confirms where and when the spins are occurring. This information can be used to plan both domestic and international tours or to book shows in the area where there is increased activity. DRT Reports from similar sounding artists shows which areas can be easily penetrated to expand the artist’s fan-base because there are obviously potential fans there.

The DRT Reports, which are sold individually or in bundles at a discounted price, break out the station, its location, the day the song was played, the time of day it was played, which version of the song was played and the total audience that the song reached that week. There is also a choice of reports from the past going back 8 weeks for my artist or any artist or song I choose to analyze. 

After doing some research on this radio tracking company headquartered in Houston, TX, I realized DigitalRadioTracker has the ability to track all songs, even alternate versions of songs such as remixes, live versions and versions with or without featured artists. This is unique to radio tracking. Each report breaks down each version of the song and where it was played. Upon signing up for free at DigitalRadioTracker.com, I was able to purchase three different types of reports for each song I wanted:
Weekly Overview DRT Reports show the day and amount of spins per day at each station
Comprehensive DRT Reports detail the day and time of each spin at each station as well as which version was played
Historical DRT Reports illustrate the 8 week overview of spins per day at each station 

Today, there are approximately 41,000 internet radio stations around the world according to Internet-Radio.com (https://www.internet-radio.com). In June 2016, the US government reduced the licensing fee by half for internet-only broadcasts to $.0007 per stream. Performance fees were dropped from 9% to 8.8% and charges for webcasting at non-commercial radio stations stayed at $.0002 per stream.

For a station with 2,000 listeners playing 15 songs per hour, the math looks like this:
15 x $.0007 = $.0105 per listener/hour
$.0105 x 2000 = $21 for 2000 listeners in an hour
$21 x 24 = $504 per day
$504 x 365 = $184,960 per year

The fee exceeds the gross revenues of every internet radio station. “It even exceeds the additional revenues made by traditional (terrestrial) stations that also broadcast on the Net. Even the lower rates ($.0002/stream) charged to non-commercial broadcasters are far higher than nearly all of them can afford,” according to Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6218).

While SoundExchange tracks these stations and collects the mandated fees from the stations to then pay the artists from those fees, I can’t imagine they can easily chase all of the internet radio stations in the US. I can see where a DigitalRadioTracker Report would come in handy to collect artists’ fees from SoundExchange since it accurately tracks the spins of music by artist and by song. Since it’s their mandate to collect the fees, the artist is due the money.

DigitalRadioTracker has been a wonderful addition to the music industry for artists, managers, record labels, singers, producers, songwriters, publishers and anyone who wants to track songs played at Internet radio, college radio and some terrestrial stations. The DigitalRadioTracker system logs every song played 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without fingerprinting or any special encoding. Unlike other tracking companies, DRT offers a risk-free guarantee! If a song has not received any spins, you get a credit to use towards another song. DigitalRadioTracker specializes in monitoring radio airplay by broadcasters of the following genres such as: 
CHR/Pop/Top 40
Urban-Hip-Hop/R&B
Country/Americana
Rock/Alternative
Gospel/Christian/Inspirational
Adult Contemporary
Jazz/Blues/Fusion

DigitalRadioTracker tracks songs internationally and offers weekly charts in each musical genre. The charts can be found at DigitalRadioTracker.com or you can sign up to receive them weekly via email. They are also posted on Instagram at @DigitalRadioTracker, on facebook.com/DigitalRadioTracker, on Twitter @DRTradiotracker and at http://NationalAirplayCharts.blogspot.com/.

Wendy Day is a 24-year veteran of the urban music industry. She built her career starting Rap Coalition, a not-for-profit artist advocacy organization for rappers, producers, and DJs. Educating artists is her passion, and she is well known in the rap community for having negotiated some of the best deals in urban music and helping to build the careers of many new and unknown artists who've gone on to super stardom. Wendy helps artists make money with music by building their own independent record labels and has worked with a veritable who's who of rap: Cash Money Records (Juvenile, BG, Hot Boyz, Lil Wayne, Big Tymers), David Banner, No Limit Records (Master P, Mia X, Fiend, C-Murder, Beats By The Pound),Young Buck, Hurricane Chris, Slick Rick, Young Jeezy, BloodRaw, USDA, Do Or Die, Twista, Lil Boosie, Webbie,Trae Tha Truth, TMI Boyz, Trouble, UGK, and many others. If you text WENDYDAY to 44222, you can join her free email newsletter list. Follow her on social media @RapCoalition.

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Tradiio is a music app which enables fans to discover their favourite artists



Tradiio is a music app which enables fans to discover and subscribe directly to their favourite artists with small monthly payments. In exchange, artists provide exclusive releases, behind the scenes content and experiences to bring their fans inside their creative process and journey as an artist.

In exchange, artists provide exclusive releases, behind the scenes content and experiences to bring their fans inside their creative process and journey as an artist.Whilst boasting all the features of a conventional streaming service (playlisting, curation etc.), the platform looks to provide all the tools needed to maximise artist revenues. These include ‘subscriber only’ options for track streaming, locked content sharing as well as each artist being assigned a personal manager to educate them on current best practices.

Recently Tradiio have made some changes to their platform, improving their user interface and functionality.

Check out their website to see more!







Playster unveils partnership with 7digital, gears up to launch revamped music platform

Playster unveils partnership with 7digital, gears up to launch revamped music platform.

MONTREAL, Aug. 30, 2016

The all-in-one streaming service will expand its music offering with major label and indie artists.

Playster, the world's first all-in-one entertainment streaming service, has inked a deal with premier digital music platform 7digital to power its revamped music catalog.

The newly unveiled collaboration with the London-based company, known for partnering with musical.ly, HMV, Technics and Onkyo, comes as a teaser ahead of Playster's huge music announcement, which will include the addition of millions of songs from both major label and indie artists.

"After we solidified our book offering to include all of today's bestsellers and biggest classics, we knew we had to get our music up to par," says Playster CEO Philip Keezer. "Our team has been working non-stop to ensure that Playster members can enjoy the best in music and now that 7digital is on board, we're just steps away from the big reveal."

"Playster is a company that has the experience and depth of knowledge to really understand the digital music market," says 7digital CEO Simon Cole. "It is a badge of honor to be working with them and we look forward to the exciting launch of the new product."

By giving members unlimited access to books, audiobooks, music, movies and games via one easy-to-use service, Playster has been shaking up the streaming industry since its inception in 2014. The new partnership with 7digital helps push the Montreal-based company to the forefront.

To learn more, start your 30-day trial at www.playster.com.

About Playster

Playster is an online streaming service that takes care of everything: books, audiobooks, music, movies and games. Boasting the world's most diverse digital catalog, Playster gives members unlimited access to all of their favorite entertainment in one place via its website, as well as custom Android and iOS apps.

About 7digital

7digital is a B2B digital music and radio services company, providing technical infrastructure and extensive global music rights to create music streaming and radio services for a diverse range of customers. It also offers radio production, music curation services, editorial strategy and content management expertise.

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Great musical project from Italy


EURO CHAMP France 2016
Artisti No Limits association and DEFOX RECORDS are proud to announce another Rock Music tribute to great sports event!
This operation it's an opportunity to combine the passion of football about the 2016 UEFA European Championship in France with the music, the Rock energy.
Hopefully the fun recalls good sportsmanship and fairplay.

The compilation with Rock bands called "EURO CHAMP France 2016" will be published in digital format in June 09.
Distribuited in all biggest worldwide music stores : iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Deezer, Google Music, Nokia, Emusic...

Artistic direction by Mirko DeFox, Artwork e photo by RRR Remi Real Rock.

Track List:
01. Horror disco shreed (Daniele Bat Maraspin) - Italia    
02. Down the vortex (Molten Trail) - Sweden/Lithuania      
03. After All (Lele Croce) - ITA                            
04. Blind's man aim (Carnival Sun) - Sweden                
05. Jane is insane (A.F.D.) - Russia                        
06. Lost It All (Breaking Chain) - United Kingdom          
07. Before the sunrise (Concordea) - Russia                 
08. Sorrow (Unhuman Nature) - Spain                        
09. I am the wild (Drawzznik) - Austria                    
10. Lone wolf (Livin Fire) - Poland                        
11. Time fails us (Nocturna A.D.) - Italia                 
12. Spirit of defiance (To What End) - United Kingdom      
13. Without An Illusion (Shivan) - Italia                 
14. Blind leader (Dimitry Pavlovsky Powersquad) - Ukraine  
15. Believe in omen (Awrizis) - Czech Republic     

Official Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/eurochamp3000

The audio player: http://bit.ly/1UAXnAu




Google has launched the Chrome Music Lab



Google has launched the Chrome Music Lab offering an interactive music experience within the Chrome browser. Part of the company’s ongoing Chrome Experiments, the new tool was launched in conjunction with Music In Our Schools month.

The interactive collection of music experiments allows users to delve into topics such as Rhythm, Chords, Sound Waves, Arpeggios, Strings and Harmonics. It relies on the free-to-use Web Audio API and also offers experiments featuring a Spectrogram, Melody Maker, Voice Spinner (users can add vocals via microphone), Oscillators and more. The microphone input also allows users to upload and manipulate their music as well and the Kandisky experiment turns user-generated drawings into musical sounds.

The Chrome Music Lab is available check this link







Nielsen Expands Global Entertainment



Nielsen announced the release of its first Music 360 China report, a landscape study of music fans and consumer behavior in China. The report is the first international edition of Nielsen's annual Music 360 study outside of North America, and is available in English and Chinese.

The report is a comprehensive study of consumer interaction with music in the world's most populous country. It provides an in-depth view of music consumption as well as media behaviors, live event attendance and device ownership and usage, with analysis on how Chinese consumers are interacting with music in their daily lives.

China is a music market of enormous untapped potential, with an online user base of 650 million people and a growing number of licensed digital music services. Spending in China is projected at $56 trillion over the next decade, driven largely by young, affluent, connected consumers with disposable incomes. And Nielsen's Music 360 China report reveals that 83% of the most affluent Chinese consumers are music fans. Other key findings include:

* Seventy-two percent of the general population of China listens to music – for an average of 16 hours a week. This rises to 82% for the most affluent tier of Chinese consumers.
* Music is largely consumed online, particularly for the most affluent tier of consumers; 66% of music listeners use a streaming service in a typical week, rising to 71% for the most affluent tier of consumers.
* For the most affluent music listeners in China, live events are even more popular than they are in the U.S. 57% attend live music events compared to 51% of the U.S general population.

"China's growing number of connected consumers and affluent millennials means big potential for global marketers," said Erin Crawford, SVP Entertainment/GM Music, Nielsen. "Our Music 360 China report shows that music is a real point of passion for consumers, and provides critical insights for companies looking to engage with music fans in China."








Deezer and Huawei announce first Global Music Streaming Partnership


Deezer, the leading global on-demand music streaming service, has entered a new music partnership with Huawei and its honor smartphone devices. In a first of its kind global streaming partnership, Deezer will be preloaded on all honor devices, giving its customers immediate access to Deezer's rich library catalogue of 40 million tracks, personalised mixes, 40,000 podcasts and audiobooks.

Huawei's massive global network is used by a third of the world's population and combined with Deezer's global footprint in 180 countries, the partnership would give users more flexibility, freedom and options to discover new music with personally curated recommendations from 50 Deezer editors from around the world.

Deezer will be available on honor devices in Europe, Middle East, Russia and South East Asia.

"Honor customers will get the best of both worlds - Smart technology alongside the best in music and radio," said Gerrit Schumann, Chief International Officer, Deezer. "With just one touch, listeners can access the largest music catalogue in the world, as well as over 40,000 podcasts, personalised mixes and audiobooks."

"Honor customers are always looking to find new ways to be entertained on their mobile devices. And Deezer is at the forefront of innovation and entertainment," said Liu Dan, Chief Strategy Officer and VP of honor, Huawei Consumer Group. "We are delighted to partner with Deezer as its extensive selection and variety of music and audio services will no doubt, surprise and delight our customers."





Tuned Global signed deal with the biggest independent Indonesian label, Musica Studios


Having identified key opportunities in the emerging markets of Southeast Asia and Indonesia, the Australian company has hired a local team of music and digital industry experts, who have already signed a strategic deal with the biggest independent Indonesian label, Musica Studios.

Funded partly by the investment of $5.1 million from Australian venture capital firm, Exto Partners, the new Tuned Global office in Senayan, Jakarta is now the Asian headquarters for the highly disruptive digital music firm.

It plans to grow its Jakarta team by recruiting more local specialists in business development, marketing, promotions and label relations roles in 2016.

Gary Mackenzie, Director of Music Partnerships Asia, has been chose to lead Tuned Global initiatives in Indonesia because of his 10 years of experience in digital marketing and music industry in Asia. Having already led the partnership agreements with Musica, Gary believes it is important for Tuned Global to have talented local people on the ground in Indonesia in order to build relationships with the key labels and grow its local business.

Tuned Global is currently in discussions with major telecoms companies, leading ad agencies, music companies and key brands, which will help the company to achieve its ambitious growth targets.

"We're excited to have established our Asian headquarters in the highly enigmatic city of Jakarta. We completely understand that business relationships are built over time in Southeast Asia and being located here and investing in the local Indonesian market was a logical step for Tuned Global. Our Asian hub will be instrumental in achieving our goal of becoming a global digital music company," said Con Raso, Managing Director, Tuned Global.

Newly signed partner, Musica Studios has an impressive line-up of the most popular and famous local Indonesian artists, including Noah, Nidji, Geisha and d'Masiv. The vast majority of music played on Indonesia radio and television is by its own local artists, so Tuned Global believed it was important to work with a label that represented the local Indonesian music scene.

"Tuned Global develops pioneering music solutions that provide extraordinary opportunities, not only for music labels like Musica, but also to our local Indonesian artists and most importantly it allows us to stream our extensive music catalogue to the Indonesian music fans, which promotes our artists while monetising our content. As the leading independent label in Indonesia, we are very excited to be working with such an innovator in digital music, which will enable us to protect our rich local culture and generate more revenue," said Gumilang Ramadhan, Managing Director, Musica Studios.

"Tuned Global intends to get more involved in the promotion of the local Indonesian music content as the relationship develops with Musica and its artists, because we are passionate about the music industry and want to help in the fight against widespread piracy here by offering new music business models that will make music fans, music labels AND artists happy," said Gary Mackenzie, Director of Music Partnerships Asia, Tuned Global.

About Tuned Global
Tuned Global is the leading business to business provider of white label digital music streaming and downloading solutions in Asia Pacific. The Australia and South East Asia headquartered company enables brands to harness the #PowerOfMusic as a potent marketing tool in their digital strategy to acquire, retain and engage customers, and collect valuable data to better know them. Clients include McDonalds, Coca Cola, Samsung, JB Hi-Fi, Virgin Mobile and L'Oreal. For more information please see: www.tunedglobal.com

About Musica Studios
Musica Studios is one of the leading independent music labels in Indonesia. Based in Jakarta, the company was previously known as Metropolitan Studios in the 1960s and then Music Studios in the 1970s. Musica Studios was founded by Yamin Widjaja, the owner of an electronics store. For more information, please see: http://www.musica.id

Media Inquiries
Louise Roberts or Victoria McClelland-Fletcher
Sphere PR – for Tuned Global
T: +61(0)2 9958 1511 M: +61(0)405 579633
E: tunedglobal@spherepr.com.au

Or

Liza Fuady
Senior Client Relations Manager
Tuned Global Asia
Senayan, Jakarta, 10270
T: +62 21 2965 5830
E: liza.fuady@tunedglobal.com

Website: http://www.tunedglobal.com/


OPPORTUNITY: Playlist Radio launch new music show


Music Industry News inform about a project recently launched on the
web, it is a kind of community called http://www.playlistradio.eu
PLAYLIST RADIO
A site full of music, videos and more!
Through the sites and service such as Spotify, Deezer or Lastfm, Youtube
it is possible to create playlists (with an unlimited number of songs)
own liking and freely!

PLAYLIST RADIO NETWORK is an innovative music community where it's possible to listen the playlist prepared by relevant bloggers and music lovers, but also news...

The crew are interest in collaboration, everyone can put his playlist or song
selection in a platform and promote their own "Show", because it's like a
radio program that is put into podcast.
The relevant feature and advantage for labels, managements, bands and
artists is that every listening an monetization is generated and which
will be paid directly from the store to labels record companies and
consequently to the artists!
Same thing happens also to qualify for copyright, the same shall be paid
by the store directly to Colect Society (S.i.a.e. in Italy) and
consequently to composers and authors joined to any company that manages
the collect of royalties!

The mission and intention are to distribute, promote, develop and promote good music through people's tastes for a specific musical genre, amateurs,
bloggers, but also "profesionals" who launch their playlists on the web!
Everyone can choose the name of their own show, just send us the URL of the
collection on Spotify, and the crew will generate the player and images to be published on the site!
And Playlist Radio will promote each "show" through all of their social, blogs and
community!

These are the shows that Playlist Radio have launched: RockerAge (Hard'n'Heavy by Ciano) - Alive Forever (only live recordings, by Drago) - Slow & Easy (rock ballads only, by Karima) - Daily Emotions (Pop rock, indie e
ballads by Extra Music Fan) - Metal Horses (Heavy Metal by Ciano) -
Strillo A Sonagli (by Strillostrano.com) - Xcellent Roxx - Special 70/80's (Rock vintage by Ciano) - Muzik No Limits (Experimental, Pop, Electronic by Cianotiko)

Also every week or month the "Video Spotlight", "Song of the
week" and "Rock Song Of The Week"

CEO Melissa said "We have already reached a good number of faithful listeners!!"


Official site: http://www.playlistradio.eu/
Facebook : www.facebook.com/playlistradionetwork



NEWS: Spotify has launched new service called Year in Music


Spotify has launched a new end-of-year feature that will remind you some of your listening habits.

The streaming service's Year in Music page gives subscribers a breakdown of their year in music, complete with their top songs, artists and genres of 2015.

Users can also find out how many minutes of music they streamed this year, the number of tracks they played, and the number of artists they listened to, as well as see how their taste changed with each season.

You can share the results with friends on social media.

Last week, Spotify released its global end-of-year review and confirmed that Drake was the most-streamed artist of 2015 with around 1.8 billion plays.

Rihanna was the most-streamed female artist with just over 1 billion plays.

Google Play Music launches $14.99 family plan


In a family of music lovers, there’s a soundtrack playing throughout our daily lives. My husband likes to listen to The Smiths radio while he works; I like Entering Beast Mode stations when I hit the gym; and we listen to Michael Bublé as a family while we cook dinner. What can I say, we’re a pretty fun bunch! But it means my family ends up paying for multiple subscription music accounts which can add up over time.

For families like mine, we’re happy to start offering the Google Play Music family plan today. With the family plan, you and up to five family members can subscribe to Google Play Music - together - for just $14.99 per month. You’ll unlock all of the same features you’d get from having individual subscriptions, including ad free, unlimited access to more than 35 million songs and the ability for each family member to stream simultaneously on any device, all for one low price. Now, you can keep your listening experiences separate from your partner and get music recommendations tailored to the music you like. So, my husband’s Depeche Mode singles will never show up in my account - only my true favorites will be front and center. And a family plan on Google play will also get your family access to YouTube Red in the US.

You and your family will be able to sign up for a Google Play Music family plan in the coming days on Android devices in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, France and Germany, with more countries coming soon. You and your family members can listen on Android, iOS and the web.

You can read the official news HERE





NEWS: 7digital has now launched music services for mobile devices


7digital client Mariposa Holdings Group, Inc. has now launched music services for mobile devices with two major operators in Brazil. As part of a partnership announced in June, Mariposa licenses 7digital's streaming technology and catalogue management platform to power new mobile music services. Brazil's Algar Telecom was the first mobile network to offer its customers Mariposa's music subscription and radio style services, and is already experiencing strong consumer uptake.

From November 24th, Oi, the largest telecommunications company in South America with over 60 million subscribers in Brazil, will offer a music service to its high value customers as part of a mobile carrier data offer. The service is created and managed by Mariposa and powered by 7digital's platform.

Mariposa's Mach Music division currently offers music services that drive data adoption for mobile operators in Latin America spanning 9 countries in addition to a Latino mobile music offering in the US.

David Fondots, CEO of Mariposa, commented "7digital's data mapping capabilities and robust CDN are the cornerstone to a scalable mobile offering that enables fast time to market and low churn due to high customer satisfaction. Collaborating in this way allows us to deliver great consumer experiences extremely efficiently in a country known for licensing complexities. We are particularly pleased to be launching with Oi only a few weeks since approving the project – working with an agile partner like 7digital who can arrange the necessary licensing agreements and provide access to the world's music makes that possible".

Simon Cole, CEO of 7digital, commented "Mariposa's rollout of music services across Brazil and elsewhere in the region has been eagerly anticipated by the team here at 7digital. The company's partnerships with the biggest telcos in Brazil ensure that these services will reach a significant audience and start to generate revenues in a market that has previously been underserved by strong mobile music offerings".

Mariposa has signed deals for music and RBT services with seven additional carriers and plans to work with 7digital for music rollout to devices.





NEWS: Deezer Launching new plan for families


Deezer, the leading global on-demand music streaming service available in more than 180 countries with over 6 million total subscribers announced Deezer Family, a new shared plan for families to jointly subscribe to Premium+ under one account for €14.99 per month.

Launching first in France for Orange subscribers, where Premium+ customers can upgrade their existing subscription for only €5 per month, the new family plan will allow up to six family members to create individual profiles with access to over 35m songs and 40,000+ podcasts.

Each registered member will be able to access the service anytime and anywhere, even if another family member is using the account simultaneously. Individual profiles will also receive personalized recommendations through Flow for an experience tailored to each member of the family.

Parents also have the option to let their children have access to a dedicated 'Kids' section, created for under 6's, which includes music, lullabies, nursery rhymes and audio books. Subscribers can also listen to 'Family Mix', a first for any music service, which features a shared playlist of favourite songs from each family member.

"We cannot wait to share Deezer Family with the world, and are excited to be starting the rollout-out in France just in time for Christmas " said Alexis De Gemini, MD of Deezer France. "The option to have up to six profiles running from one account means that we are able to bring music to more people than ever before, whilst delivering a tailored experience for all. Whether you want to let your kids fall asleep by listening to lullabies or get everyone excited with our Family Mix, we've got you covered."

"We know how popular shared family plans are with our customers in France, so we couldn't be more excited to be working with Deezer for this launch," said Christian Bombrun, Director of Entertainment and New Uses Orange France. "As consumers digital needs evolve it is important for us to work with partners that can deliver an experience that works as well for the individual as it does for the family."

Deezer Family Plan is set to roll out in other markets following France in the coming months.







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