Study shows who wins and loses if music streamers adopt user-centric payments
An extensive new study examines how a shift to user-centric music-streaming payments will impact artists. While careful not to advocate for or against a shift from the current payment model,. Continue reading
Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Labels cool on Viral Artists • $1.2B Vinyl boom • Music release strategies
Episode 147 of Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business podcast with hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart is available now. Episode 147 On this week’s edition. Continue reading
Survey shows the Love/Hate relationship Music Producers have with AI
A new survey of 1,533 music producers dug into their perspectives and experiences with AI in music production Conducted by BPB, it offers a data-driven overview of the state of. Continue reading
120K tracks uploaded daily to Spotify & streamers, up 28.4% this year
120,000 new tracks are uploaded to music streaming services every day, according to Luminate data shared at last week’s Music Biz Conference. That’s up 28.4% from an average of 93,400. Continue reading
Alliance distributed 800,000 vinyl records for Record Store Day sales
Alliance Entertainment shipped 800,000 vinyl units to independent record stores for last weekend’s Record Store Day. Related retail sales were expected to surpass $32 million. While Alliance is the largest. Continue reading
Your Morning Coffee Podcast: End of the Music Business • Songwriters and Artists unite • Major Labels vs. AI
Episode 140 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is live, this time including an intro from Hypebot’s Bruce. Continue reading
Indie Artists, Labels thrive by focusing on off-center niches, new genres, and local music [Chartmetric]
The team at Chartmetirc analyzed 6,000 playlists to understand the relative power of major vs. indie catalogs in Spotify Recommendations across music genres. by Dmitry Pastukhov from the Chartmetric Blog. Continue reading
Why so many artists get lost in record labels
Even with the support of a record label, the wave of music released every day is a tough current to swim against. Here are some things to consider before signing. Continue reading
UMG wants to change how streamers pay artists: Here’s how
Recent announcements of UMG experiments with music streamers Deezer and Tidal and subsequent interviews offer a glimpse of how the world’s largest music group wants to change how Spotify, Apple. Continue reading
What are the world’s Top 10 Music Markets?
What are the top 10 markets for music globally? The recent IFPI Global Music Report answers the question and adds some regional context. As of 2022, the world’s Top 10. Continue reading
4% of all music releases come from the Big 3 companies
Just 4% of the 100,00 tracks uploaded to Spotify daily come via the three biggest music conglomerates – UMG. Sony and WMG – according to entertainment analytics firm Luminate. That. Continue reading
