Spotify Starts Plugging Their Own Playlists With TV Spot “Never Ending” [WATCH]

Playlists are the new radio. Or at least that's the party line at Spotify, Apple Music and other streamers experimenting with how help users navigate 30 million track playlists and. Continue reading

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MON. BRIEFING: YouTube Label Talks Heat Up • Apple Scores Drake Exclusive • EU Launches Collective Licensing • More

Monday 4.11.2016 Music Business News From Around The Web  Can you imagine a YouTube without music?  It won't happen, but we're in for months of posturing as labels strike (much. Continue reading

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This Week In Music Commentary

Eager to share a piece of their minds, commentators this week weighed in on music streaming's inevitable unbundling, whether YouTube's dominion is coming to an end, and why streaming's success. Continue reading

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TOP POSTS: Last Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

In some of Hypebot's most popular articles from the past week, we speculated as to what Spotify's new debt load means, looked at the most important tools for online music. Continue reading

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Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y And Indie Music

How to visually promote your music, get a record placement, and achieve success using inbound permission based marketing to fans, are just a few of the useful tips we have. Continue reading

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Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: Portable Studio • Promotional Stunts With CDs • Give Your Music Away Or Charge? • More

This week on MusicThinkTank, we covered  building portable studios, promo stunts you can pull with leftover CDs, when you should give away your music vs. sell it, and more.

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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

The Beatles crush it in their first hundred days on Spotify, Beatport explores their post-SFX independence, and Apple unveils new censorship technology, plus much more as we pay a final. Continue reading

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SFX Bankruptcy Court Allocates $15 Million In Payments To Artists

The judge overseeing the SFX bankruptcy gave top tier EDM artists and their agents reason to celebrate this week with the allocation of $15 million to be paid to artists. Continue reading

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The Beatles Rock Their First 100 Days On Spotfy

Fans waited a long time for The Beatles to arrive on streaming.  Now, 100 days after their addition to Spotify, 6.5 million monthly listeners have streamed 2,793 years’ worth globally. 

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Merchbar April Hot Merch Chart Features Deadmau5 (Thanks To Kayne), Ariana Grande, Twenty One Pilots And More

Who knew a tweet from Kanye West could shoot Deadmau5 straight to the top of the charts? Turns out that Kanye West's confusion on how to pronounce Deadmau5 (hint: not. Continue reading

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