Tunecore Quarterly Payments To Artists Up 24% To $44 Million Driven By Dramatic Streaming Growth

TuneCore payments to artists rose 24% to $44 million last quarter over the same quarter last year. Since TuneCore launched in 2006, their artists have earned $733 million from 36.5. Continue reading

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Streaming Music Business Bigger Than Previously Thought

While many industry analysts have already acknowledged that streaming accounts for a huge percentage of overall music consumption, some of the most popular tracks actually received an even greater number of spins once. Continue reading

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YouTube Music Launches Daring Ad Campaign Featuring A Cross Dressing Teen, Rapping Hijabi Muslim, More [VIDEO]

There are no reliable stats on how many people pay to use YouTube Music, but it clearly lags well behind Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal.  In a move guaranteed to raise awareness,. Continue reading

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Apple Jabs At Spotify, YouTube With Proposal That Would Pay Songwriters Just $910 Per 1 Million Streams

The amount that songwriters are paid for streaming is diluted by the hundreds of millions of streams on ad-supported music services like Spotify free and YouTube.  Apple has filed a proposal. Continue reading

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Create, Publish Your Own Ads With New YouTube Director App

Allowing its users to take the reigns for the first time ever, YouTube has released a new app, YouTube Director for Business, giving users the ability to produce and create. Continue reading

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8 Albums That Would ‘NEVER’ Be Streamed But Eventually Were

For a small but significant group of major artists, streaming is evil. While most will let their music go up on YouTube,  they vehemently vow to keep it off Spotify,. Continue reading

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Google To Copy Apple’s 2014 Family Plan, Expand Sharing To 6

Family Plans and multiple user offerings are one of the lures for the digital content marketing. And while 6 people on one account certainly lowers the per user payments to. Continue reading

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Google Play Music, You Tube Red Set To Beat Spotify Into India

Google Play Music and YouTube Red  are ready to launch in India ahead of Spotify. The confirmation comes via screenshots posted by two users on an Android Reddit forum .. Continue reading

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App Developers Alliance Sides With Spotify In Apple Dispute

Now that Spotify has drawn a line in the sand over Apple's app store rejection, supporters of both sides are starting to comment.  Unsurprisingly, so far most, at least in. Continue reading

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SoundCloud Ramps Up Music Discovery, Adds ‘Suggest Tracks’

SoundCloud is now competing directly against Spotify, Apple Music and others. So it's adding features to match them. With 125 million tracks on SoundCloud vs. about 35 million on Spotify. Continue reading

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Spotify Merchbar Partnership Means BandPage Is Out

[UPDATED] Alongside today's announcement that Spotify would be selling merchandise from 35,000 artists thanks to a new partnership with Merchbar, was a mention that offers from BandPage would no longer be. Continue reading

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