REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Beats Music Acquires Topspin Media, Will Spotify Continue Topspin Deal? Spotify Acquires The Echo Nest, Sources Estimate $100 Million Purchase Price Wiz Khalifa Releases Paid Sticker Pack For Multiple Messaging. Continue reading
Last Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
Zoë Keating Puts Her Income As Musician Into Perspective Spotify & Beats Music Deals Illustrate Differing Strategies Beats Music Buys Topspin Spotify Buys The Echo Nest What Spotify Beats Deals. Continue reading
LiveNation Labs Acquires YourTrove
Live Nation Labs, the digital arm of concert and ticketing giant Live Nation, has acquired YourTrove, a social startup that delivers personalized search results driven by social connections. No details of the deal. Continue reading
RECESS Announces Mark Cuban Led Seed Funding and Spring College Tour
RECESS, the startup previously known as GLOWfest, is getting set for their spring college tour with extra impetus from a seed funding round led by Mark Cuban. RECESS describes itself. Continue reading
A Preview Of SXSW 2014 Accelerator Music Finalists
If you're at SXSW, stop by and cheer on the 6 music tech startups presenting this weekend March 8-9 at the SXSW Accelerator pitch event in Startup Village at the Downtown Austin Hilton.. Continue reading
BalconyTV Hopes Acquisition By The Orchard Will Solve Business Model Quandaries
BalconyTV launched in 2006 as a video art experiment that morphed into shooting some musicians on the balcony which set the stage for BalconyTV's worldwide presence. The Orchard yesterday announced. Continue reading
Beats Music Opens API To Public
Beats Music today opened it's API to developers. The service remains $10 a month for consumers, but their hope is that outside developers will extend Beats' reach for those willing to pay. Continue reading
Spotify Paid $100 Million For The Echo Nest plus Industry Reactions
Spotify paid $100-$125 million to acquire The Echo Nest with up to 90% of the figure being equity in Spotify, sources tell TechCrunch. Based on the higher valuation, sources peg $15. Continue reading
Spotify and Beats Music Acquisitions Illustrate Differing Strategies
By Matt Sandler musician and founder of Chromatik. Two acquisitions in one week by the major players in music streaming. Beats v. Spotify. And interestingly, they characterize the different strategies. Continue reading
Rdio Sessions To Record Live Acts At SXSW 2014
Rdio Sessions is a fairly new recording series from Rdio featuring live performances in intimate settings that are then available for streaming. Rdio is taking Sessions to SXSW and will. Continue reading
