Spotify Acquires Preact To Help Boost Paid Subscriptions
As Spotify's label renegotiaions have dragged on, we've heard repeatedly that boosting paid subscriptions is a top priority for rightsholders. Today's acquisition of Preact could help the music streamer accomplish. Continue reading
Is It Time To Make Music Profitable Again?
With the perceived devaluation of music, many in the industry are racking their brains as to how the music business can be "saved," or at least made to be profitable. Continue reading
Sony/ATV, Warner Chappell, Kobalt Beat Universal, BMG In New Music Publisher Ranking
Sony/ATV, Warner Chappell and indie Kobalt were named the top 3 music publishers in Billboard's new market share ranking. Much of Sony's success comes thanks to Sia's "Cheap Thrills," the. Continue reading
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
The most popular from the past week of news from the music industry included the pushing out of Maria Pallante from the Copyright Office, a look at how Spotify could. Continue reading
Are Higher Royalty Payments Really Coming Soon From Sirius XM?
One of the main gripes from artists and publishers in the streaming era has been that regarding low royalty payouts, this could be about to change however, at least for. Continue reading
Have An Opinion? A Great Idea? MusicThinktank Wants You!
As many regular Hypebot readers know, we also publishes MusicThinkTank, the site dubbed "Where The Music Industry Goes To Think." Entirely crowdsourced, the MusicThinkTank community is both lively and supportive,. Continue reading
Music + Money: What To Invest In And What To Avoid
As artists and musicians, where we invest our money is important. Indeed one of the main reasons those starting out in the music business fail is because they misspend their. Continue reading