Music streaming growth falls 2/3rds in UK, is US next?
Total number of UK music streams grew by 7.9 billion or just 5.7% to 147.2 billion in 2021 according to BPI, Britain’s top recorded music trade group. By comparison, in 2020 total. Continue reading
Grammy Awards Postponed dues to COVID concerns
As rumored, the January 31st Grammy Awards have been officially postponed due to the spike in coronavirus infections. No new date has been named, but the Academy is said to. Continue reading
ASCAP Experience grew 39% in 2021. Is the future of music conferences online?
EXCLUSIVE: ASCAP Experience, ASCAP’s yearly educational event series reached more than 41,000 views in 2021. That’s a 39% increase in attendance and a 54% increase in RSVPs over 2020’s online event. Of those. Continue reading
Hypebot increases coverage of Music NFTs, DAOs and Web3 [and needs your help!]
2021 was the year that music on the blockchain and crypto shifted from promising theory to a concrete revenue generating and audience building reality. The most obvious manifestation was the. Continue reading
Why less is more when it comes to touring for developing artists
There are the many challenges and and types of touring for developing artists. Read on and learn what’s best at every stage in a touring career. A guest post by. Continue reading
Why can’t you upload music directly to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon?
Did you ever wonder why you can’t upload your songs directly to Spotify? How about Apple Music or Amazon Music? Why can the record labels do it but an indie artist can’t? A guest. Continue reading
The most popular Haulix music biz videos of 2021
After a long and successful year of helping artists, the Haulix Music Biz team shares their most viewed videos of 2021. A guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix. There. Continue reading
Eric Clapton pretends to regrets suing a fan who listed a bootleg of one of his CDs on Ebay
Eric Clapton starts to second guess his decision to sue a woman for copyright infringement. By Mike Masnick from Techdirt There is no greater example of just how totally broken. Continue reading
#MusicNFT News: Nipsey Hussle’s last EP + RAIRTECH, Metaversal adds $50M, Melodity, a Seattle NFT Museum and STREAMER
UPDATED: Late rapper Nipsey Hussle’s last EP will be released via a limited 1000 NFTs with exclusive music rights to the project. RAIRTECH, the decentralized digital rights management platform it. Continue reading
Hypebot again named a top 10 music industry blog, website
Just weeks after Hypebot was named one of the “The 10 best blogs for musicians and bands” by Bandzoogle, we’ve landed on another top 10 list. Feedspot has named Hypebot. Continue reading
