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Beyoncés Cowboy Carter breaks Spotify and Amazon one-day records

Move over Taylor Swift. On Friday, Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2024…..

Bruce Houghton on 04/01/2024 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Artist’s Pandora SoundExchange payments now go directly to UMG

Since SoundExchange’s inception in 2003, 50% of song royalties from Pandora have been paid directly to artists after the digital PRO takes a 4.6% administrative fee…..

Bruce Houghton on 03/19/2024 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Global recorded music revenue jumps 9.8% after years of slow growth [MiDiA]

The music market has doubled in size since 2015, and it continues to grow. But who is getting all this money? A new MIDiA report digs deep for answers…..

Alana Bonilla on 03/19/2024 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Fighting Streaming Fraud at the Distributor Level [Symphonic’s Jorge Brea]

Fraudsters “redirect royalties away from rights holders and artists and into their own pockets to the tune of millions per year,” writes Jorge Brea, the CEO of Symphonic Distribution, but there is a solution…..

Alana Bonilla on 03/13/2024 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Indies are ‘gravely concerned’ by WMG’s bid for Believe and TuneCore

A top independent music trade group is expressing concern over Warner Music Group’s aggressive bid to acquire independent music conglomerate Believe…..

Bruce Houghton on 03/08/2024 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (0)
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New Liam Gallagher and John Squire LP is world’s first vinyl EcoRecord

The new Liam Gallagher and John Squire joint album has been released by WMG as its first sustainable EcoRecord…..

Bruce Houghton on 03/06/2024 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)
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UMG Publishing and TikTok send dueling messages to Songwriters [Full Text]

With thousands of songs by major and independent artists who are not signed to Universal for recording or publishing now muted in the battle between the music giant and TikTok, both sides stepped up to the bully pulpit with dueling messages to songwriters and the music industry this week…..

Bruce Houghton on 03/01/2024 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)
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A brief History of Hit Songwriters you’ve probably never heard of

Recent Hypebot stories about how songwriters ar mocking low streaming roaylty rates and Tiffany Red shining a light on unfair song splits, serve as reminders of how much songwriters are the unsung hero’s of the music business….

Bruce Houghton on 03/01/2024 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Beyoncé, SZA, Styles among non-UMG tracks caught in TikTok takedown

The third and final phase of TikTok’s forced takedown of all UMG-controlled music has begun. The short video service has 30 days from January 31, 2024, to complete all takedowns…..

Bruce Houghton on 02/28/2024 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Redefining Record Labels starting with Purpose [Patrick Clifton]

Why do modern record labels need to redefine their purpose and refresh their measures of success?…..

Alana Bonilla on 02/26/2024 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Spotify Editors discuss what makes a Classic Album in the streaming era

What makes a classic album in the streaming era from 2015 to the present? Industry insiders join Spotify editors to discuss how albums were chosen for Spotify’s new CLASSICS’s classic hip-hop and R&B Albums of the Streaming Era list…

Bruce Houghton on 02/21/2024 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (0)
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