The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, March 31

The big story in music this week was the 11% sales jump in US revenue as reported by the RIAA. The Daily Chord shared the news from a few perspectives. The state of Bob Seger's catalog was given a close examination, Bob Dylan agreed to accept his Nobel Prize and Pitchfork listed the Britpop canon. The Daily Chord keeps tabs on the music biz and shares links each weekday via our posts and email blasts. Sign up today for the newsletter.

Tuesday, March 28

• Streaming music services, from most screwed to least screwed
  Post from Gizmodo
• John Lydon, angry older man, reflects on life as an angry young man
  Post from NY Times
• Ultra nice - arrests and medical calls way down at this year's Ultra Music Festival
  Story from Miami Herald
• 'I crawled on my knees to Kylie' - The inside story of Stock, Aitken and Waterman
  Story from The Guardian
• Danzig announces Blackest Of The Black festival, complete with an immersive torture experience
  Post from Consequence Of Sound
• Houston loses another piece of music history, the Bronze Peacock
  Story from Houston Chronicle

Wednesday, March 29

• Watch what happens when Spotify gives unknown music acts a big push
  Post from Recode
• Projecting trends: The music industry's quest for consumer data
  Post from Synchtank
• N.W.A.'s 'Straight Outta Compton,' Eagles 'Greatest Hits' make Library Of Congress' 2016 picks
  Story from LA Times
• Bob Dylan finally agrees to accept Nobel Prize for literature
  Item from BBC News
• Slacker Radio's new feature goes old-school
  Post from CNET
• Emoticast raises $5 million as Sean Parker, will.i.am, David Guetta back mobile music messenger
  Item from Hypebot

Thursday, March 30

• Where have all the Bob Seger albums gone?
  Story from NPR Music
• Arthur Blythe, jazz saxophonist who mixed sultry and strident, dies at 76
  Obituary from NY Times
• Classic West rock fest announces lineup and ticket prices (and no, they're not exactly cheap)
  Post from LA Times
• Questlove and the art of the subversive musical dig
  Post from Wired
• The 50 best Britpop albums
  Feature from Pitchfork
• Gin Blossoms' 'New Miserable Experience': The dark history of a nineties classic
  Story from Rolling Stone

Friday, March 31

• Streaming drives U.S. music sales up 11% in 2016
  Story from NY Times
• 2016: A year of progress for music
  Post by RIAA via Medium
• Streaming makes most of the US music industry's money now
  Post from CNET
• Jarvis Cocker on the music of his life
  Feature from Pitchfork
• When bygone pop stars attempt an indie reboot
  Post from Stereogum
• Rihanna's 'Umbrella' turns 10: How the iconic hit changed her forever
  Post from MTV News