Month: July 2016

THU. BRIEFING: Sony Accused Of Streaming Collusion • 50 Cent Exits Bankruptcy • CBS Radio IPO • More

Thursday.7.7.16 Music Business News From Around The Web It's not hard to imagine a major label favoring a streaming music service that it owns part of over a competitor. Updated. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/07/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Active listening, Amazon.com, Android (operating system), Apple Inc., Approval voting, Pandora, record label, Spotify, Streaming media, YouTube

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Soundcloud Aims Straight At Spotify, Apple Music With “Artist Stations”

Soundcloud is looking and feeling more like a mainstream streaming music service every day. Earlier this year, they launched the ability to start a Station – a radio-like stream of similar. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/06/2016 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: .ipa (file extension), Android (operating system), Artist, Facebook, IOS, Sony, Sony Music Entertainment, Soundcloud, Twitter, Warner Music Group

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Slim’s Nightclub Has The Best Sign In It’s Bathroom

Leave it to a live music club in San Francisco to solve the issue of transgender bathrooms, once and for all. While Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen are cancelling shows. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/06/2016 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Born to Run (song), Bruce Springsteen, Charlotte, Cider, Demi Lovato, Equality North Carolina, Google, Hypebot, LGBT, Meetup, music industry, North Carolina, Pandora, Pat McCrory, Ringo Starr, San Francisco, Science fiction, The New York Times, United States

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Should Apple Really Buy Tidal? A Look At Paid Subscriber Stats For All Major Music Services [CHART]

If Apple is buying Tidal, its shouldn't just be for its subscribers. After all, Tidal only has 3 million. But then again, given Apple Music's horrible churn rate, it needs all. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/06/2016 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Churn rate, Compact disc, Google, IOS, iTunes, List of online music databases, Spotify, Streaming media, YouTube

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Kevin Lyman Talks Vans Warped Tour [INTERVIEW]

In this interview we speak with organizational music legend Kevin Lyman, leader of the summer long concert series leviathan that is Vans Warped Tour, about the direction of the tour. Continue reading

Guest Post on 07/06/2016 in Live & Ticketing | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: 1812 Overture, Apple Inc., Concert band, Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Kevin Lyman, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Henry Ford, United States Army, Warped Tour

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Is The Great Artist Revolt Imminent?

Is an artist revolution imminent? As major labels renegotiate with YouTube, the likelihood of a deal which benefits artists being struck seems unlikely, raising the question of what will happen. Continue reading

Guest Post on 07/06/2016 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Capitol Records, copyright, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, IPhone, music industry, music video, Vimeo, YouTube

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BIG Trouble Ahead For #Apple: Users Leave Apple Music 3X Faster Than They Do Spotify

Apple Music has a problem with users dropping the service. It's called their churn rate – "the annual percentage rate at which customers stop subscribing to a service" – and. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/06/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (3)

Tags: Android (operating system), Anti-competitive practices, App Store (iOS), Apple Inc., Bruce Sewell, Churn rate, iTunes, Spotify, Streaming media, Subscription business model

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Paul René Albertini On MarathonArtists And Supporting Artists, Managers, Music Tech Startups [INTERVIEW]

Here music industry veteran and chairman/co-founder of the music tech accelerator MarathonArtists Labs, Paul René Albertin discusses his tech investment companies, as well as the changing landscape of the music business overall,. Continue reading

Guest Post on 07/06/2016 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: American Association of Independent Music, Anti-establishment, AOL, AOL Instant Messenger, Apple Inc., European Union, Germany, Investment company, music industry, United Kingdom

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Open Labs Launches Stagelight Monthly Music Contest

Three months in, nine to go. There’s a year-long music contest happening right now and if you make music, listen to music, or love music, you need to know about. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/06/2016 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: 1080p, Bluetooth, Fall Out Boy, HDMI, Intel, Intel Core, Intel HD Graphics, Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13, Linkin Park, Microsoft OneNote

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Is Buying Tidal A Waste Of Apple’s Money?

Although Apple is allegedly in talks to purchase Jay-Z's streaming service Tidal, it's hard to see what exactly what the benefit would be for Tim Cook's company, as Apple is. Continue reading

Guest Post on 07/06/2016 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Aspiro, Beats Electronics, Dr Dre, Jay-Z, Jimmy Iovine, Kanye West, Spotify, Streaming media, The Wall Street Journal

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