A test Spotify Showcase nets astoundingly disappointing results [Brian Hazard]

Music promotion pro and musician Brain Hazard tested Spotify’s Showcase and Marquee marketing features so you don’t have to. by Brian Hazard of Passive Promotion Last month I wrote about how Spotify. Continue reading

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Spotify, Apple, Roblox, Meta make Dirty Dozen sexual exploitation list

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation has named Spotify, Apple, Roblox, Meta, Reddit, and Dischord to its annual Dirty Dozen list of mainstream contributors of sexual exploitation…..

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Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Artists caught in streaming crackdown • Sped up songs on Spotify • Superfan mania • More

Episode 192 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now…..

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Spotify to help fans edit, speed up songs and promises to pay artists

According to a new WSJ report, Spotify will add tools that allow fans to speed up, mash-up, and edit songs without prior permission…..

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How Cumbia’s contagious Beats are taking over Latin America & The World!

Over over reggaeton, trap, and even corridos tumbados. The many varied sounds of Columbia’s infectious cumbia music are taking over Latin America, and soon, the world…..

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Spotify [NYSE: SPOT] stock up 63.7% this year, with more growth ahead, say analysts

Spotify stock is up 63.7% since the start of 2024 and 133.7% in the last 12 months while most overall market indexes are up just 7% to 9% year to date. Spotify [NYSE: SPOT] closed Monday at $309.O7…..

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Your Morning Coffee Podcast: TikTok ban examined • Q1 Music Trend Report • More

Episode 191 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available here……

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Spotify adds AI text to playlist creation, live Listening Parties

Spotify has added two new features—artist-driven live interactive Listening Parties and AI-powered text-based playlist creation—in beta and says both will be released more widely soon…..

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Spotify claims rules now in effect will shift $1B to ‘Working Artists’

This week, we learned that new Spotify rules are eliminating payments on the tens of millions of tracks that get less than 1,000 plays a year, and a crackdown on so-called “junk tracks” has been in full effect…….

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The Great Streaming Purge begins! Deezer tosses 26M ‘useless’ tracks

Music streamer Deezer recently deleted 26 million tracks from its platform. Keep reading to find out what was deleted and how this may affect music streaming and royalties……

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