Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Music future • Managers today • Spotify’s new royalties • MLC payouts • More
Episode 170 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Episode 170 Listen on your favorite podcast. Continue reading
How to identify fake Spotify playlists
Scammers are amuck on Spotify, making money off of fake and stolen tracks and diluting the pool that pays all legitimate artists. Here is how you can detect and even. Continue reading
How musicians make the most of Spotify Wrapped: Marielle Kraft & more
With less than a week left for artists to get their accounts ready for Spotify Wrapped 2023, this week’s Hypebot Flashback Friday resurfaces a post on how indie singer-songwriter Marielle. Continue reading
$9.99 SiriusXM streaming service leans into human curation, exclusives
SiriusXM has announced the launch of a $9.99 per month streaming service that combines content from its satellite radio service, Pandora music service, and Stitcher podcast app alongside more than. Continue reading
Free Spotify Audiobooks are now live for US Premium subscribers
US Spotify Premium subscribers now also get 15 hours of free audiobook content per month, with bestselling titles making up 70% of the 200,000+ book catalog. Spotify’s total paid audiobook. Continue reading
Just 8 days left to get ready for Spotify Wrapped: A Musician’s Guide
Spotify’s Wrapped year-end recaps are a great way to reconnect and celebrate with fans, but only if you are ready. Fortunately this year Spotify created a guide to help. With. Continue reading
Spotify and YouTube need a ‘Boost’ button to simplify marketing
Michael Branvold and Jay Gilbert talk about one of their biggest wish as music marketers: a button on YouTube and Spotify that triggers a paid “boost” to make it easy. Continue reading
UMG shifted Pandora royalties from SoundExchange ending Performer payouts
Universal Music is under fire for changes it made last year in how it pays Pandora royalties to artists, shifting to contractural rates instead of having 50% of the royalty. Continue reading
How artist subscriptions and two-tier payouts are perfect together [Mark Mulligan, MIDiA]
Two-tier payouts is coming to music streaming and along with it concerns about how it will affect long-tail artists. Mark Mulligan suggests ways in which Spotify and other DSPs can. Continue reading
What are sped-up songs and why are they so popular?
This week’s Hypebot Flashback Friday resurfaces a post that goes deeper into one of the main culprits described in this week’s article on how 1 million modified tracks on streamers. Continue reading
Apple Music pays as much as 90% more per stream than Spotify
A new royalty calculator created by consultancy Manatt and endorsed by Billboard shows the gap between royalty payouts by Spotify and those from Apple Music. For example, a song that. Continue reading
