CD Baby Publishing Now Represents 100,000 Songwriters, Expanding To 18 More Countries

Indie music services platform CD Baby is now providing publishing administration to more than 100,000 songwriters, the company announced today, alongside a major expansion into new territories.

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Mass Appeal Lands $6 Million Investment From Universal Music, Usher, Nas, Others

Last year, Universal Music Group began investing in music focused films; and today they expanded their content interests with a big bet on NYC based graffiti/hip hop culture and lifestyle. Continue reading

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10 Graphic Design Trends To Make Your Next Music Project Pop

I often advise my students at Berklee Online and the musicians that we work with at Skyline Artists that it is smart resource allocation to spend a little bit extra on. Continue reading

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OFFICIAL: Spotify Has 50 Million Paid Subscribers

Spotify yesterday confirmed that it now has more than 50 million paid subscribers to its Premium streaming music service. That's up 25% from the 4o million announced 7 months ago. Continue reading

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Pandora [NYSE: P] Stock Flat

[UPDATED] A day after Pandora fell 6% on news that Liberty Media was in no hurry to combine the streaming music service and it's majority-owned SiriusXM, it's stock rebounded slightly on. Continue reading

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Music Streaming Subscriptions Are Still Stuck In Early Adopter Niche [CHART]

2015 was a big year for streaming music but it was a bigger deal for streaming video, generating $16 billion in revenue compared to $4.5 billion for streaming music, reports. Continue reading

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Use Twitter To Supercharge Your Music Network

Twitter is a complex and sometimes confusing platform for microblogging, particularly for those unfamiliar with it. Here we look at how to make the platform work better for you, specifically. Continue reading

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MON. BRIEF: Big Layoffs At Maker Studios • Shazam Powers Streamers • Oscars Winners • More

MONDAY 2.27.17 Music Business News From Around The Web  Has the era of the YouTube star already peaked?   Updated continuously under our More News tab

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Hypebot’s ‘Believe It Or Not’ – iTunes Is Still The Most Popular Music Platform In The U.S.

While music download sales are clearly on the decline, don't count them out yet.  According to a survey of 10,000 consumers by PayPal and SuperData, iTunes, is still the most. Continue reading

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CD Baby Back Online After Multi-Day Outage

CDBaby.com is back online after an outage that lasted much of the last 5 days. The indie music and musician's services company blamed a corrupt database caused during routine maintenance. 

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