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THU. NEWS BRIEF: Baidu: 150M Actives, Label Merger • Adele Fights Resellers • Coldplay Streaming? • More

Thursday 12.3.2015 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web When a music service announces 150M active users, you remember how much room the industry has to grow. Updated continuously. Continue reading

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Nominate Your Favorite Music Tech Startups And Launches Of 2015 [WIN AXEL HEADPHONES]

2015 was a year of seismic change in digital music. Adele aside, the recorded music industry reached its digital tipping point with income from downloads and streaming surpassing psychical sales. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/02/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (46)
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Martin Goldschmidt On Cooking Vinyl’s Unplanned Success [INTERVIEW]

Independent label figurehead Martin Goldschmidt talks about his origins as a political activist in the '80s and how he accidentally fell into the music business before founding Cooking Vinyl, and. Continue reading

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Welcome To Our World: The Spread of Content Piracy

The value of a copyright is at the core of most discussions about compensation and fairness in the music industry.  But how we, as a society, value copyright is effected. Continue reading

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How Music Streaming Is Creating A New Kind Of Superfan

While superfans have traditionally sought to develop a personal connection with artists, the "shuffle age" of streaming has brought with it the streaming superfan, who instead seeks to continuously broaden. Continue reading

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Future Of Music 2015 Re-Cap: Building Your Local Music Community

In this episode of Music Biz Podcast, we talk with Scott LeGere and Jay Coyle, who are educators and entrepreneurs. LeGere heads the music business program at McNally Smith College. Continue reading

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Skyline Music Agency, Hypebot Open Nashville Office

Regular Hypebot readers know that I generally stay away from self-promotion. Most don't even realize that Hypebot and MusicThinkTank are published by  longstanding boutique booking agency Skyline Music, which I. Continue reading

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Tidal Names Ex-Soundcloud Exec As CEO, It’s 3rd In 8 Months

Tidal, despite some missteps, has attracted more than a million paying subscribers.  Will hiring a digital music veteran as CEO, its third in eight months, be able to build on. Continue reading

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ISRC Agency Announces New US Country Code

It seems that, for the second time, the US has run out of International Standard Recording Codes, the number which is used to identify unique recordings. Luckily, the ISRC Agency is already springing. Continue reading

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Wu-Tang Limited Edition Album Sells For Millions At Auction

Wu-Tang Clan has sold an ultra limited edition unreleasable double album for “millions of dollars”.

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