How Apple Shook Up the Music Biz in 2014, Sony and Snapchat Negotiations, and More in This Week's Digital Digest

TOP STORIES     How Apple Shook Up the Music Industry in 2014  Who shook up music the most in 2014? Sorry, Taylor. Nice try, Queen Bey.   Spotify Founder/CEO Daniel Ek: 'We Need to Do a Better Job Explaining to Artists How Streaming Benefits Them'  For the 31-year-old Spotify founder/CEO, the company's momentous 2014 wasn't enough.   The Industry in 2014: Digital Is the New Mainstream, Despite Taylor's Protestations  It was a year of major companies and major artists making waves in the new music business.   Sony Hack Reveals Snapchat Wanted a Record Label, Too Much Money From Vevo  The leak of Sony Entertainment's internal documents has revealed high-level talks between that company and Snapchat, the messaging service that turned down billions from Facebook earlier this year.   Op-Ed: How Mobile Finally Took Over the Music Industry in 2014  With explosive growth in streaming, social media, artist apps and more, mobile finally took over the music industry.   Exclusive Q&A: Deezer's New Chief Marketing Officer Aims for U.S. Market  A chat with Deezer's chief marketing officer, Beth Murphy, as the world's second-largest music subscription service makes a play for the world's largest music market: the United States.   Musixmatch Wants to Be the 'IMDb of Music Lyrics,' Launches Lyric Video Messaging App  These days, you're almost as likely to get a music message as you are to get an iMessage with increasingly popular apps like Boomio and Rithm, which allows users to send friends and followers texts in the form of, or alongside, a song. Musixmatch, a Bologna, Italy-based lyrics site -- the largest in the world, in fact -- is attempting to change that with Clip, an innovative lyric video messaging service that launched on Friday, Dec. 12.   Iggy Azalea, Lorde, Weird Al - But Not Beyonce - Top Google's 'Year In Search'  Google has unleashed its annual Year In Search lists, and the music categories are popping with emerging artists and trend-making newsmakers.   Audiam Raises Additional $1 Million From Music Biz Investors  The likes of Tom Windish, Cliff-Burnstein and Mark Geiger have stumped up cash for the publishing administration firm.