How Spotify Calculates An Artist’s Monthly Active Users

Spotify monthly active user counts are one of the most important metrics used by the music industry – radio, media, A&R and more -  to judge how hot an artist. Continue reading

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Building Your Artist Development Team: The Music Producer

In this second part of a series on artist development and establishing an effective team, Camille Barbone delves into the role of the music producer, including how to find one,. Continue reading

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The Reason Unpaid Music Internships Are A Problem

While internships can be a great way to put you on the road to industry success, unpaid internships can often class out promising candidates by not offering the support necessary. Continue reading

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Ed Sheeran Breaks Another Spotify Record: 69M Unique Monthly Listeners

Ed Sheeran has notched yet another streaming record, surpassing a staggering 69 million monthly Spotify listeners, and is on course to hit 70 million. Sheeran has seen a spike in. Continue reading

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THU. BRIEF: Sony Restructures • Saban Funds $500M Music Launch • Spotify Disney Hub • UMG Fire Update • More

THURSDAY 7.18.19 Music Business News From Around The Web Updated continuously under the More News tab

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BUSINESS OF INDIE: Astral People Launches • The Orchard Revealed • Zebralution Acquires EMS • More

In this week's Business Of Indie, Indie label Astral People launches, The Orchard's Chief Operating Officer Colleen Theis tells all, distributor Zebrulation acquires its technical service provider Encoding Management Service. Continue reading

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Sony Consolidates Records, Publishing Under Rob Stringer

Sony Corporation chief Kenichiro Yoshida has announced that the company will bring together its recorded music and music publishing businesses outside of Japan under the umbrella of Sony Music Group . Continue reading

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SXSW 2020 PanelPicker: Just 3 Days Left To Submit

The deadline to submit proposals to the SXSW PanelPicker is this Friday. July 19th. This online process gives attendees a voice in conference programming including presentations, panels and at SXSW.. Continue reading

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Music ‘Trigger Cities’: Spotlight On Latin America

In this third part in a series exploring music "trigger cities", Jason Joven pf Chartmetric takes an in-depth look at Latin America's music consumption stats to explore how listeners there. Continue reading

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3 Strategies For Reviving Cold Music Industry Contacts

If you've entered the difficult world of music PR, you've doubtless faced the bone-chilling silence which greets most of your pitch emails. Getting a response to your carefully crafted email. Continue reading

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