Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ Smashes Streaming Records, But Some Denounce Excessive Marketing
“Drake’s new album Scorpion is currently being streamed over 10 million times per hour,” Spotify tweeted Friday. By days end, the album's 25 tracks had been streamed more than 132. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
In this careful look back on a full week of music industry news, we revisit Ticketmaster's alleged scalping of its own tickets, hundreds of festivals' pledge to tackle gender inequality. Continue reading
Merlin Pays Out $500M As Indies Score With Streaming
Merlin's payments to its 20,000 label members has surpassed $500 million annually, according the 10th anniversary report just released by the global indie music licensor. A dive into the data. Continue reading
The Business Of Streaming Music [PODCAST]
David Turner, the author of the newsletter Penny Fractions. David joins Michael Brandvold on the Music Biz Weekly podcast in a discussion about the business of streaming music, the issues. Continue reading
Musician’s Guide To Streaming Click Fraud
As streaming settles in to become the established medium of music consumption, the inevitable issue of fraud is rearing its ugly head. In this piece Kevin Cornell provides a quick. Continue reading
How To Guide For Cover Art On Spotify, Streaming Services
While cover art no longer carries quite the same weight as it once did (with music less often purchased as a physical product) it remains an essential part of the. Continue reading
Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. and Indie Music
We offer up a whole of useful tips and tricks for independent artists this week, with advice on why you should be releasing your music on vinyl, how to successfully. Continue reading
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
This week Hypebot's most poplar articles looked at creating multiple playlists simultaneously on different platforms with Soundsgood, whether tech companies are becoming the new record labels, if Troy Carter will. Continue reading
Create Playlists Simultaneously on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Napster, More Free with Soundsgood
Playlist distribution and sharing app Soundgood has announced a new integration with Napster and an improved integration with Apple Music. The app, which enables playlist distribution and updates to multiple streamers. Continue reading
