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Ryan Reynolds’ long-gestating anti-superhero flick, Deadpool, was one of the biggest hits of 2016. In addition to its massive box office success, the film also earned two Golden Globe nominations for best musical or comedy and best actor for Reynolds.

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A selection of songs we liked that were released in 2016, some connected to us directly, some spiritual cousins, and some from another orbit entirely. Follow the playlist for an unexpected surprise.

With the explosion of podcasts this past year Serial has gained devoted fans amongst the masses. The newest thing in the field of podcasting is to take the show on the road and be as mobile as possible. There are now tools available to give mobile phones almost the same quality that you would get from a studio. With Spreaker coming out with a mobile podcasting toolkit the company Anchor FM is right on their coattail. Anchor is an Australian based hosting company known for domain names, shared hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers. They specialize in complex managed hosting solutions with and excel with open source technologies. The companies Cast is making major waves by updating its toolkit to improve upon some major assets.The new features on the podcasting app include personal landing pages and better search capabilities so listeners can discover new podcasters, an ability to edit podcast metadata and an embeddable player. This is basically an arms race to the top of podcasting dominate and the potential for massive change is on the horizon.

The crushing blow of a possible musical marriage that was not meant to be is Spotify giving up on its efforts to buy SoundCloud after months of chatter between the two companies. Back in September the companies were in advanced talked about acquisition but things started to flame out. Spotify ultimately gave up on the deal due to fear that the merger could have a negative impact on the company's going public and harm its IPO. There's still no definitive proof that Spotify will go public next year. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that there has been a recent funding round with plenty of incentives tied to a listing. Only time will tell if the possibility of a future merger could happen between the two.

Pandora announced recently at a press event that they are creating a Spotify competitor Pandora Premium. The service will offer on demand listening to millions of songs free of ads and offline access to music. Their main goal is to make the service more personalized as a way to make itself different from its competitors. It's going to use the listening history and likes of the user to make suggestions about what music to listen to next. The thing that Pandora has over the other services are it's loyal 78 million users who have had the service for years. Some of the new features come from the recent acquisition of Rdio. The use of Autoplay is a brilliant plan crafted around creating a radio station based on an album or playlist that continues on after u finish them. This sounds like a good idea for the company to possibly create a different outlet for those who are loyal to the brand with a way to stay away from competitors.

Spotify has just unleashed its new jack of all trades a new series of original artist recordings entitled Spotify Singles. They plan to record some of the artists in house at their New York studio and update the playlists of the new music every Wednesday for our listening ears. The Spotify singles concept is derived from the good old days of vinyl and cd singles and how amazing that era used to be. The first song played by the artists during the recording process is going to be an original piece and the second song is a cover of a tune most people would recognize instantly. Spotify has already released original recordings back in Austin Texas at SXSW or at their main office with Spotify sessions. It was where they basically had small recordings of a live concert as it happened. The major difference with singles is that there will not be an audience to cheer on their favorite artists as they play. The exclusivity and the type of content make Spotify a definitive standpoint in sticking along with the service as opposed to switching to other competitors.

Amplify is a unique App that people who are at house parties will truly enjoy. The app allows you to have multiple people stream a song that's already being played on a computer at the same time. What you do is log into the service through a web browser, so technically anyone can start the party on any device with a browser. this makes it way easier than spending hundreds of dollars on expensive speaker equipment. The thing you could really do is have everyone who’s already on their phone as it is use them to start the party instead. Amplify grew out of News Corp.'s acquisition of Wireless Generation. It is a company that's dedicated to reimagining the way teachers teach and students learn through the use of innovative technology and educator training. Even though this is just a side project for the creators it could be potentially something that is groundbreaking in the industry.

iHeartRadio has announce that it will allow for a paid on demand music subscription. The company is known as a free, all-in-one digital radio service that enables its users to listen to their favorite live stations or create custom stations featuring songs from artists they select and similar music. iHeartRadio has strong roots in modern radio by currently owning 88 stations, this move to create an app is solely for the larger purpose of the listening audience having the capability to hear radio on the computer or mobile device. The app allows its users to listen to more than 1,500 live radio stations from coast-to-coast, including pop, country, urban, rock, talk, and college. The I HeartRadio Plus subscription will cost 4.99 per month and will be able to playback songs they hear on the radio as much as their hearts desire. iHeartRadio also has the more robust product with All Access, which costs 9.99 per month and includes all of the Plus features, but also has the capability to listen offline and the ability to create playlists from the full library. iHeartRadio is doing great brings with music and only time will tell if people will become attached to this idea or if they will flock to competitors like Pandora Apple or Spotify

Bonx grip is an indie logo funded device that provides a wearable outdoor sports group-talk headset. Bonx creates and develops Bonx Grip, a water and shock proof unit that enables group conversations between outdoor athletes. This type of technology is something that has been unheard of and can change the game for those who play sports.The earpiece features a couple of oversized buttons to make it easy to operate in almost any condition. The buttons control the volume and also can be muted if needed . It can be also be used either as a Bluetooth headset to for music or talk on the phone. Bonx appears to have a device that you will possibly soon see allot on people who are in the field of sports and athletics and time will only tell if they will get any better.

Zencastr is helping to grow podcasting rapidly by making it easier to record high quality audio for interviewees anywhere. The software works over the internet and users simply click on a link. The app creates podcasting where podcasters can record their guests in high quality directly from their web browser. Instead of recording audio that comes through a phone line, Zencastr gives them the capability to record the audio on the interviewee’s computer. The interviewer can see the status and adjust for any errors that may arise. With apps like Zencastr available the field of podcasting has just become a lot more capable of producing content that is of great quality for the listeners.

The Instrument 1 is the new wave of musical instruments and is making a big splash in the music industry. The main reason as to this is because of the massive help of those people who believed in the product. The Instrument 1 was funded through a seven figure Kickstarter campaign that has had its fair share of ups and downs. The campaign was full of setbacks and delays but as of recently, the product is available to order and shipping out now. The product itself cost 400 dollars which can seem either too much or somewhat reasonable to some but to get a device that can be played as either a guitar or a keyboard is definitely worth the cost. The thing that makes it different from most other instruments is that it is pressure sedative and has an accelerometer built into the device itself.

Youtubes biggest competitor is beginning to make a run with a new tool that people who use social media will definitely love. The tool is the capability to create video GIFs from the massive video library that VEVO has amassed. The content that they are producing isn't all that special or different but it is a major change in the industry. The way it works is that a user can press the gif button on any VEVO video at the moment they want to create a Gif. The creator lets them then move throughout the video and change the timing to create the precise gif they want with the capability to ad captions to the gif. They can share the post on twitter or Facebook to the masses. The capability to make gifs may be the key component vevo needs to make their platform outshine YouTube on a more socially relevant level utilizing videos of their favorite singers and songwriters that are relevant to them.

The company launched its acclaimed app edjing originally for iOS in 2012, after making a broad move as a company and pivoted away from offering a music video steaming and mixing service, the edjing DJ app has since added support for Android and Windows, seeing it garner over 10 million downloads to date, across 170 countries. It also claims to be the only multi-platform track-mixing app currently on the market. The good thing about Edjing is that it makes money via a freemium business model. The idea is that the basic app is free, with a range of in-app purchases offering additional DJ sound packs for people to expand their capabilities. When the company switched on monetization at the beginning of the year they were able to firmly state they had broken even.

DJiT plans to use the capital it has raised to develop its international partners network and to create more products which will allow them to accelerate ongoing sales negotiations. Things like this are definitely changing how people see djing and making it more of a digital platform that more people can get into and this in itself is groundbreaking for the industry.

Encore is a U.K. Startup that is definitely trying to break up the traditional booking agency model. They are allowing you to find and book a musician or band online and it has garnered over 18,000 musicians and 30 percent of them are actively using the services. The company has raised over 560,00 in seed funding and its planning to use the money earned to expand its staff and start to create paid adverts to increase brand awareness. Encore aims to improve pay and conditions for the musicians themselves by cutting out (and replacing) the traditional agency middle person.

The site works by allowing those putting on an event to be able to submit the type of musician or band they wish to hire and providing details like instruments, genre, and time and place. The Encore software then uses the information and sends out an alert to matching musicians and bands who are registered on its mobile app. Musicians that are available and interested then respond with a quote and the booker can check their profile and Soundcloud links etc., and ask any follow-up questions before making a booking. Payment is then processed via Encore, which takes a 15 percent booking fee. This is a new take on how artists and musicians are able to get jobs and its seeming to be the trend in the industry to go in this direction and the future of the music industry is trending this way. It has some competition in this market with other companies like Fyre doing the same type of booking model strategy. so hopefully they can change the future of music and booking artists.

60dB is an all new application that is looking to provide a more personalized radio service that is focused on short form content. There's a variety of content from various publishers and there is a section for longer stories also available. The company itself was created by former NPR reporter Steve Henn and two Netflix executives who worked in the field of engineering and also created personalized software. This will work towards keeping people tuned in and stopping them from changing the dial. The startup is backed by a small round of seed funding from angels and institutional investors, including Khosla Ventures, Rivet Ventures and Bloomberg Beta.

The content comes from a range of publishers, including Marketplace, the BBC, ESPN, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Bloomberg and The Wall St. Journal. There are some really good shorts from The Atlantic, Fusion, Mic, Vox, Motherboard Recode and The New York Times. At the launch of the app, there are going to be more than 2 million stories available.The company has definitely started to change how people are listening to music and eventually plan to integrate with Amazon Echo to incorporate the listening habits of people into their platform and this can help take them into the future of radio.

People are into cutting the cord and going with wireless earbuds for multiple reasons. The company Doppler Labs is making major changes to how the people use their headphones and wireless headphone technology. Doppler Labs Here One earbuds are using newer technologies of Bluetooth low energy and near field magnetic induction to create an amazing product. One cool thing about the company is that one product they made, the Here Active Listening headphone, raised over $600 thousand on Kickstarter with the capability of allowing users to filter out certain noises.

The company does have its downside by not being able to keep up with the demand of the product. Which will hurt them in the holiday buying period but they are able to recover by continuing to make a strong product.They also have just partnered with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the New York Philharmonic, JetBlue and others. These partnerships allow the company to develop custom layered listening experiences based on user locations. Which is something not seen before it basically allows you to tone out the baby crying on the plane, or the drunk guy yelling next to you at the Cavs game.

.The startup has so far filed 107 patents for its audio codecs, reference designs and other technologies, and it’s adding more to that each month,Devialet is a company that is changing audio by planning to embed itself into tv cars and software based music services. They are doing the opposite to the AI services by creating the aural experience. And with this they are creating a trend in audio technology leading towards new developments in sound integration. When evaluating the potential forecast it has a purpose and. There is a great amount of certainty that comes from the company.

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