Tag: Spotify

TuneCore Reports 90% Streaming and Download Growth, But Just 6.3% Rise in Payments To Artists

D.I.Y. digital distributor TuneCore announced today that is artists had a collective 3.6 billion downloads and streams in the last 3 months. That resulted in 90% increase versus the same. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/17/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Alternative Distribution Alliance, Approval voting, Aspiro, Associated Press, Atlanta, Austin Scott (politician), Motown, Spotify, The Island Def Jam Music Group, YouTube

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Spotify Launches “Fan Insights” Free Artist Analytics Platform

Imagine if an artist could concentrate their touring only where your fans are? Imagine music marketers could concentrate more effort into magnifying new fan interest as it happened? These are. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/17/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Artist, Compact disc, Digital audio, Facebook, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Music download, music industry, Spotify

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Spotify Users Now Log 1.7 Billion Listening Hours Monthly

Spotify announced that its "more than 75 million" users now listen 1.7 billion hours monthly. As Music Ally points out, that matches Pandora listener stats from its 78 million users.. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/17/2015 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Apple Inc., Facebook, Initial public offering, Pandora, Pandora Radio, Soundcloud, Spotify, Streaming media, TechCrunch, Tim Westergren

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Why Your Current Songs Probably Won’t Work For Television Or Film

There's no denying it can be tough for artists to make money, particularly these days, and so the prospect of getting one's current work featured in a film or episode of. Continue reading

admin on 11/17/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, Compact disc, Facebook, Fan (person), Instagram, IPod, iTunes, music industry, Spotify, YouTube

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Pandora Acquires Bankrupt Rdio For $75 Million In Bid To Compete With Spotify, Apple Music

Consolidation in streaming music has begun, though perhaps a bit earlier than expected. Pandora is acquiring "the technology and intellectual property" of streaming music service Rdio for $75 million, and. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/17/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Apple Inc., Associated Press, music industry, Pandora, Recording Industry Association of America, revenue, Rhapsody (online music service), Spotify, Streaming media, United States

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AM NEWS BRIEF: Pandora Buys Bankrupt Rdio For $75M + Reaction • Safe Harbour • SiriusXM Adds Petty • More

Tuesday 11.17.2015 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web Pandora's Rdio purchase will help bring music streaming into the mainstream. Updated continuously under our More News tab. CLICK HERE

Bruce Houghton on 11/17/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Adobe Acrobat, Antalya, Apple Inc., Artist, Arts administration, Audi, Audio mixing (recorded music), Board of directors, Chromecast, Cyclone Evan, Deezer, education, Fiji Times, Google, Initial public offering, Rdio, Spotify, Streaming media, Subscription business model, Yasawa

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Transparency, Accounting And The Creation Of A Fair Music Report

Dividing and allocating funds to those who deserve them continues to be one of the greatest challenges faced by distributors of music, and labels and publishers often claim that to. Continue reading

Guest Post on 11/16/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Digital audio, India, Intellectual property, music industry, Non-disclosure agreement, record label, Spotify, Streaming media, United States, YouTube

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Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: A Rich Kid’s Game? • How To Be A Confident Musician • Intellectual Property Online • More

This week on MusicThinkTank, we learn how to be a confident musician, why you need to pay people in the music industry, six different ways to book a show (even in cities you've. Continue reading

Guest Post on 11/14/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Adware, Aftonbladet, Artist, Big data, Crowd funding, music industry, songwriter, Spotify, Streaming media, YouTube

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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

YouTube launches its music app, Victory Records returns to Spotify, and a surprising reveal regarding just how much money music's superstars rake in. All this plus more as we revisit the. Continue reading

Guest Post on 11/14/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Android (operating system), Apple Inc., Business Insider, Independent record label, IOS, IPhone, iTunes, music industry, Spotify, YouTube

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Gaming Streaming Networks With Fake Listeners

At this point, most people are familiar with encountering bots on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, so it should come as no surprise that these automated users have. Continue reading

Guest Post on 11/13/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: Apple Inc., Chromecast, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Rdio, Spotify, Taylor Swift, Twitter, YouTube

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