REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

In this casual trot back through a full week of industry news, we revisit stories covering topics ranging from YouTube's launch of its livestreaming and super chat, to the official. Continue reading

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Spotify, Playlists and Profitability: On Playing The Long Game

Lucas Gonze shares his response to Mark Mulligan's piece on why Spotify struggles with profitability, and takes a look at what the streaming service's most logical path forward may be. Continue reading

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SoundCloud Go Launches In Germany

A local language version of Soundcloud's paid subscription streaming music service Soundcloud Go has launched in Germany. It's priced at s 9,99 € ($10.75 USD) per month for full access to. Continue reading

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The Streaming Music Price Wars Have Started

Something many believed to be an inevitable occurrence, it seems the first of the streaming music price wars has broken out. Precipitated by Amazon's joining of the market, other streaming industry major. Continue reading

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Spotify Discover Weekly Has Helped Fans Unearth 300 Billion Tracks

Included with Spotify's annual lists of artists, albums, tracks and trends that topped the service in 2016, was a note that the music streamer's Discover Weekly playlists had been streamed more. Continue reading

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Instagram: The Best Way To Reach Music Fans

If you're curious which social media platform is the best one to target fans on, it looks as though the popular photosharing app Instagram may be your best bet, as. Continue reading

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How Become A Verified Artist On Spotify

In this piece, Chris Robley walks us through the twelve steps to becoming a verified artist on Spotify, including attaining the requisite 250 followers necessary for such verification to take. Continue reading

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ASCAP Veteran Jon Bahr Joins CD Baby As VP of Music Publishing and Rights Management

[UPDATED] . Indie distributor CD Baby has been consistently expanding its artist services offerings with publishing and rights management leading the way. Now, their taking those efforts to another level. Continue reading

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Neil Young Caves, Puts Music Back On Streaming Services

After yanking his tunes off of streaming services including Spotify and Apple Music back in 2015 citing poor sound quality, it seems that Neil Young is once again returning his. Continue reading

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Apple Aquires Tech, Talent Of Bankrupt Music Streamer Omnifone

Ominfone was in the business of building streaming music services for the likes of Blackberry, Samsung's Milk and Pono. It was one of the first companies to launch an unlimited. Continue reading

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