REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Taylor Swift Breaks Spotify Silence: "I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment." 10 Reasons Why Every Artist Should Be On Spotify Taylor Swift Pulls All Music. Continue reading
SoundExchange Shows 74% Increase in Artist Payout From Q3 2013 to Q3 2014
UPDATED SoundExchange, the industry's self-proclaimed "people-powered radio" is putting up some impressive artist payout numbers in Q3 2014. Closing out the quarter at $267 million paid to artists, SoundExchange is boasting. Continue reading
Songkick Adds Tickets Sales In UK, Plots U.S. Rollout
Songkick has added ticket sales to its concert discovery platform; and just a few months after launching in the UK, says its selling tickets for 25% of all London shows.. Continue reading
[INTERVIEW] Gary Turner, CEO of LearnToPlayMusic.com, Introduces Apollo-M
In an email interview conducted earlier this week, Gary Turner, CEO of LearnToPlayMusic.com shared the latest on the new Apollo-M, on-demand, music lesson database integration coming to the website's toolkit.. Continue reading
Will Taylor Swift and Spotify Ever, Ever, Ever Get Back Together?
Spotify certainly hopes so. After being pressured publicly by Spotify to release her newest album, 1989, to streaming, Taylor Swift not only denied them the album, she removed her entire. Continue reading
The Musician’s Guide to Snapchat
By Keidra Chaney on Sonicbids.com For a working musician, the thought of yet another social media platform may seem exhausting, especially considering that Facebook and Twitter are already pretty time-consuming. While video- and photo-sharing networks like Vine or Snapchat may. Continue reading
Spotify Deletes Its App Platform, Offers Developers Inferior Alternative
Please note: Future releases of the Spotify Desktop client will no longer feature an App Finder tab and will no longer support the presentation of Spotify Apps, therefore this feature. Continue reading
Apple Partners With Southwest Airlines For Free Beats Music On All Flights
Apple and Southwest Airlines has partnered to offer free curated playlists from Beats Music on all its WiFi-enabled aircraft starting today. Accessing Beats inflight includes a library of hundreds of playlists;. Continue reading
Samsung’s Free VidZone Music Video Service Expands To 16 Countries
Samsung's mobile music video service VidZone, which is available free to most customers, is expanding to 11 more countries for a total of 16 European territories Currently available in the UK, France,. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
YouTube Music Service Could Cost Artists, Labels $2.3 Billion Per Year In Lost Income Billboard Announces 2014 Touring Award Finalists Content Marketing Is Dead Pandora & Spotify Beat Beats Music. Continue reading
