Fan Insights Rebrands As Spotify For Artists, Now Available To All Artists and Managers
In November 2015, Spotify released Spotify Fan Insights, a dashboard to help artists better understand their Spotify listeners. Today, it exited beta as Spotify For Artists combining analytics, profile management. Continue reading
Closing The Value Gap – On Terrestrial Radio?
For months, YouTube has been the music service the industry loves to hate. Love, because of its huge audience that can clearly break artists and boost releases. Hate, because of. Continue reading
This Week In Music Commentary
Commentators from deep inside the music industry this week shared their thoughts an opinions on the future of windowed streaming exclusives, the value of authenticity in an artist, and how. Continue reading
8 Things Every Musician’s Website Must Have
If you're having a difficult time getting traction with your music online through mediums like Spotify and Soundcloud, building a website can be a great way to have a one. Continue reading
The Reason That YouTube Pays Artists So Little
After a rough financial decade, the music business is finally seeing some appreciable revenue growth, and it's showing no signs of stopping. YouTube, however, doesn't seem to have gotten the. Continue reading
Spotify Exec Killed In Stockholm Attack, CEO Ek Pays Tribute
Spotify senior executive Chris Bevington was one of four people killed during a terrorist attack in Stockholm on Friday April 7th. Now, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has posted a heartfelt. Continue reading
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
The most popular and often read posts on Hypebot this week included the question of whether labels are encouraging Spotify's free users to become pirates, The diversification of Pandora and. Continue reading
Q1 Stats Show A Growing Music Industry IF It Can Figure Out Streaming
New sales and streaming stats from BuzzAngle Music show a recorded music industry that's growing again, led by an explosion in streaming. But with digital and physical sales plummeting, the. Continue reading
Spotify ‘Seriously’ Explores Nixing IPO In Favor Of Direct Listing, Motivated By $1B Funding Terms
This week's announcement that Spotify had cut a multi-year licensing deal with UMG, and the subsequent deals with other rightsholders that will certainly follow, paves the way for Spotify to. Continue reading
Why Spotify, UMG Windowing Deal Won’t Work
With yesterday's announcement that Spotify and Universal Music Group had struck a multi-year licensing deal came to revelations: 1) the music streamer would pay lower streaming rates IF it delivered specific. Continue reading
