Month: December 2015

FRI. NEWS BRIEF: Vivendi Buys Radionomy, Winamp • Musixmatch Soars, Adds Spotify • Cox Liable For $25M Piracy • More

Friday 12.18.2015 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web Winamp – the music player with more than 9 lives. Updated continuously under our More News tab. CLICK HERE 

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Songkick Raises $10 Million From WMG Owner Acccess Industries, Triples European Direct To Fan Ticket Sales

Songkick has raised another $10 million. The new funding, coming after a June $16 million round,  is from Access Industries, owner of Warner Music Group.

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Feds Set To Seize Control Of $2 Million Wu-Tang Clang Album As Buyer Arrested For Securities Fraud

The strange saga of the single copy Wu-Tang Clan album purchased by Martin Shkreli for $2 million got even stranger today, with the former hedge fund manager's morning arrest for. Continue reading

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Find Out How Many People Are Listening To Any Band On Spotify In Less Than 10 Seconds

Activity on Spotify is an essential metric for determining popularity, and they've just created the micro site Artist Year In Music to make that info public. Type in any band name,. Continue reading

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My Top Music Tech Launches Of 2015 – Nick Rizzuto, Fame House

We've been asking some of the new music industry's best and brightest for their top 2015 launches in music tech. Here, Nick Rizzuto, the Marketing Manager at digital marketing agency Fame. Continue reading

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Reaction To Copyright Royalty Board Decision From Pandora, Sound Exchange, Future Of Music Coalition

Reaction to yesterday's Copyright Royalty Board decision determining non-interactive streaming music rates have been strong and hint at action ahead by both asides.  Three major stakeholders weigh in:

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2015: Year Of A Million Streaming Services [Cortney Harding]

While there are a plethora of streaming services currently available, most of which are reasonably well designed and user friendly, none of them seem to have gained enough traction as to. Continue reading

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My Top Music Tech Launches In 2015 – Jon Romero, Vector Management

Between now and the end of the year we're asking some of the new music industry's best and brightest to share what they think were the most important launches in. Continue reading

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Top 5 Must-Hear Music Biz Podcast Episodes of 2015

Music Biz Podcast distributed 33 shows in 2015. We are proud of every single interview we conducted, but these five episodes received the most downloads on iTunes. Thank you to every. Continue reading

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Free Streaming: A Musician’s Saving Grace?

Some of the industry's most vocal commentators have decided that streaming offers little to no benefit to artists, unless they've achieved a level of stardom where earning money from streaming is. Continue reading

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