REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
First Spotify Drops Time Limits On Free Accounts Then Rdio Lifts Listening Limits Beats Music: Massive Marketing Campaign ~ Full Launch Press Release ~ The Curation Team Google+ Enables Random. Continue reading
SongAmpr Launches Song Promotion Platform With Free Premium Memberships For Hypebot Readers
SongAmpr officially launched today offering musicians a platform for releasing and promoting music with SongPages. The idea is to maximize the impact of each single and to build an ongoing. Continue reading
Bandsintown Partners With Sony Music Unlimited
Bandsintown has partnered with Sony's Music Unlimited subscription service to bring song previews to its concert listing app. Bandsintown users will now be able to preview music by artists whose concerts are. Continue reading
ADA Appoints Jessica Lehrman as Director, Business and Legal Affairs
ADA has named Jessica Lehrman as Director, Business and Legal Affairs, Previously, she was an Associate at the law firm Morrison & Foerster. ADA is the indie label arm of the Warner. Continue reading
Facebook’s Social Ad Data Shows Less Teens, Less Students, More Sex, Less Drugs
There seems to be a lot of disagreement about what's happening on Facebook. Part of that comes about because it's hard to get systematic data about changes, whether it's reduced. Continue reading
Frisky Builds An Indie EDM Streaming Service
The news that Radionomy was buying Winamp and Shoutcast from AOL was good for many web radio broadcasters including Faisal Sultan of Frisky, an EDM radio station that added a. Continue reading
Rock Is Most Popular Genre Among U.S. Album Buyers [CHART]
Rock music was the most popular genre with U.S. album purchasers in 2103. Statista used Nielson and Billboard data to find that 34.8% of all albums bought here in 2013. Continue reading
50 Cent’s Wireless Workout Headphones Fight Sweat
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Beats by Dre is one of the electronics biggest success stories of the past decade. When conventional wisdom dictated that nobody cared about sound. Continue reading
Music Publishing Weekly Roundup: BMI Publishers Explore Options, Pandora Faces a Setback & Beats to Launch
BMI publishers are exploring their options following last December's rate court ruling stating publishers that withdrew their catalog solely for digital licensing on Jan. 1, 2013 are no longer part of any licensing deals. Continue reading