TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
This week some of our most popular pieces on Hypebot covered a petition urging Spotify, Apple, and Amazon to label indie music, how bot farms are continuing to manipulate streaming. Continue reading
What Happens When You Fake Social Media Numbers
There have been a number of stories released in the past week covering a fake LA hard rock band created by a one Jared Threatin who purchased massive numbers of. Continue reading
Apple Music To Grow To 164M Users As iTunes Crashes [Morgan Stanley]
Apple Music will continue its growth trajectory, according analysts at Morgan Stanley. Over the next five years, Apple Music's 5% market penetration will expand to 14%of a growing user base. Continue reading
Spotify Unveils Wonderful Data Driven Billboards, Ads
The annual Spotify Wrapped billboard and ad campaign highlights unusual stats from the streamer's users. In an era when data privacy is a universal concern, Spotify is encouraging people to. Continue reading
5 Common Mistakes Made By Artists
As an artist striving for success, you're doubtless putting in countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears, but even working as hard as you do, it's easy to make career. Continue reading
Wilco’s dBpm Records Signs With ADA Worlwide, Jeff Tweedy Solo Album Out Today
Warner Music Group's indie arm ADA Worldwide has inked dBpm Records, the record label founded by Wilco in 2011. The deal includes Wilco front-man Jeff Tweedy’s first all-original solo album, WARM,. Continue reading
Google Not The Only Large Search Engine You Ought To Know About
While the vast majority of us rely on Google for our searching needs, we're also aware of a few other engines like Bing and Yahoo, as well as some other. Continue reading
Spotify’s Vanja Primorac Joins UTA As Music Innovations Exec
Talent and entertainment agency, United Talent Agency has hired from Spotify executive Vanja Primorac as an executive focused on Music Innovations. In this newly created role, she will identify and. Continue reading
Threatin’s Fake News, Fake Fans and Fake Reality
The rise of the streaming age has brought with it an unsurprising uptick in artists attempting to game social media and streaming platforms in a less-than-honest approach to finding success. Continue reading