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Take this 10-minute DSP survey NOW! [and get a free MIDiA report]

Top music and entertainment business consultancy MIDiA is doing its annual “DSP Survey: Shape The Future Of Streaming Services” report and offering some solid incentives to participants…

Bruce Houghton on 02/14/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Music Subscriber Market Share Report 2023 shows global growth [MIDiA]

Mark Mulligan and the team at MIDiA have released their latest music subscriber market share report, and it shows continued global streaming growth…

Bruce Houghton on 02/12/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Why are playlists so important?

Mathilde Neu of Reprtoir looks at how crucial playlists are to today’s music ecosystem and how to get your fair share of placements…

Alana Bonilla on 02/09/2024 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (0)
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The impact of Mitski’s ‘My Love Mine All Mine’

With a boost from TikTok, Indie darling Mitski has gained more recognition in recent years, but its her recent unlikely hit “My Love Mine All Mine” that catapulted her into the mainstream…

Alana Bonilla on 02/09/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Spotify paid the music industry $9 billion in 2023

Apparently, passing 602 million monthly active users was not the only big stat Spotify wanted to share this week. Two days after a solid report to investors that sent its stock up 8%, Spotify announced it had paid more than $9 billion to musicians and the music industry last year, its highest payout ever…

Bruce Houghton on 02/08/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Spotify [NYSE: SPOT] stock up 8% in the last two days

Spotify stock closed Tuesday at $231.92, up $8.67, a gain of 3.88%. Earlier in the day NYSE: SPOT was up as much as 8.64% after the streamer delivered a strong Q4 2023 report.

Bruce Houghton on 02/07/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Four big music takeaways from Spotify’s earnings call

While Spotify’s Q4 earnings call focused more on podcasts, audiobooks, and bottom-line numbers than music, there were still some critical music-related takeaways.

Bruce Houghton on 02/06/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Spotify passes 602 Million Monthly Active Users

Spotify added 28 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs), including 10 million paid users, in the last three months, the second-largest-ever Q4 gain.

Bruce Houghton on 02/06/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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How Walk Off The Earth hooks fans long before the ‘official’ release

Indie band Walk Off the Earth has had multiple songs go viral on socials long before they are even released, and here’s how they did it… by Chris Robley of. Continue reading

Alana Bonilla on 02/06/2024 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Amazon Music for Artists adds free ‘Hype Deck’ marketing tool

Amazon Music has added another free tool to its growing “for Artists” toolkit. Hype Deck empowers artists to create custom Hype Cards to spread the word about “big moments” for. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 01/30/2024 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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