FRI. BRIEFING: 69¢ Song iTunes Chart Games • Pandora + Uber • BandLab Buys MONO • More

Friday 9.9.16 Music Business News From Around The Web  Check out iTunes' 69 cent song section and you see the newest way that major labels have found to game the. Continue reading

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Apple Music, ITunes Head Of Digital Marketing Moves To AEG Live

Brooke Kain, who had joined Apple Music from Beats when Apple acquired the music service, has exited to take the newly created position of Chief Digital Officer at concert promoter AEG Live. Kain. Continue reading

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Streaming Exclusives Are Done: What Comes Next? [Cortney Harding]

Although the recent wave of  much-loathed platform-exclusive releases seems to be coming to an end, the question still remains of what will come next for streaming platforms and consumers.

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Are Streaming Music Services Competing With Record Labels?

As streaming services continue to pour more and more resources into original content, they could be precipitating fundamental shifts in the music industry, with a particularly strong impact on conventional. Continue reading

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What Music Fans And The Music Industry Can Expect From Today’s Apple Event

Apple is set to announce the new iPhone 7 today along with a new version of the Apple Watch and changes to its Mac Book line. But what can the. Continue reading

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The High Wire Of Releasing Music [David Emery]

In this piece, David Emery muses on the changing face of the music industry, and how windowing and streaming exclusives are precipitating gradual but fundamental alterations to the way artists. Continue reading

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MONDAY BRIEFING: Apple Music Tests “Discover Clones • Kickstarter To Relaunch Drip.fm • SXSWhite House • More

SPECIAL LABOR DAY EDITION: Today is a holiday in the U.S., but that doesn't mean that there's not breaking music business and tech news both here and globally.  We've got. Continue reading

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TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

The most popular and widely read articles from Hypebot this week included those covering Spotify's reversal of its position on windowing, lessons artists can learn from Seth Godin, Frank Ocean's. Continue reading

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FRI. BRIEFING: 20 Ways To Release An Album • New Beats Headphones • Google Play Beta • UJO Blockchain • More

As we rework our More News section (more on that here), we're producing a daily list of links from top music industry, music tech and D.I.Y. news and commentary from. Continue reading

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Is Spotify Punishing Apple Artists?

In an effort to combat the rash of Apple Music exclusives which have been cropping up of late, Spotify has allegedly been manipulating search results so that artists who provided with. Continue reading

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How Music Industry Project Management SHOULD Work

As the music industry has transformed and increased in complexity so dramatically over the past few years that the already time consuming task of reporting has grown even more so.. Continue reading

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