The US music industry Tuesday posted its strongest growth in more than a decade in the first six months of 2016 as streaming subscriptions doubled, but other formats showed weakness. Consumers in the world's biggest music market had 18.3 million subscriptions to paid services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal in the January-June period, compared with 9.1 million in the same period a year earlier, the Recording Industry Association of America said. The revenue from paid subscriptions also more than doubled to just over $1 billion.

The US music industry Tuesday posted its strongest growth in more than a decade in the first six months as streaming subscriptions doubled, but weakness reigned in other formats. Consumers in the world's biggest music market had 18.3 million subscriptions to paid services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal in the first half of 2016, compared with 9.1 million in the same period a year earlier, the Recording Industry Association of America said. The revenue from paid subscriptions also more than doubled to just over $1 billion.

Haitian-Canadian DJ and producer Louis Celestin, who performas as Kaytranada, has won the 2016 Polaris Musix Prize with debut studio album "99.9%."

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Actress Charmian Carr, who played the character of Liesl Von Trapp in ‘The Sound of Music', has died at the age of 73.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charmian Carr, the actress best known for portraying the eldest von Trapp daughter in Rogers & Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” has died. She was 73.

Her family announced that she died from complications from a rare form of dementia.

Her family announced that she died of complications from a rare form of dementia.

Although a highly discreet artist, Aphex Twin is a heavyweight name in the world of electronic music, with a career dating back to the early 1990s. Although very discreet in the media, legend has it that the Richard David James' stage name, Aphex Twin, references an early moniker "AFX" for "Acid Effects." Others suggest a link to "Aphex Systems Limited," an audio equipment brand. Aphex Twin is signed to Warp Records, a British independent record label that's home to other heavyweights of the contemporary music scene, such as !!! and Flying Lotus.

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