Music streamers just knowingly killed a simple way to pay artists more money
Yesterday Apple Music and 30 minutes later Amazon Music announced they would not charge extra for hi-res lossless and 3D Spatial audio streaming. It seems likely that Spotify will follow. Continue reading
Live Nation has already booked more concerts next year than it did in all of 2019
Live Nation has already booked more shows – twice as many according to some reports – in 2022 as it did in all of 2019. Pent-up demand for going to. Continue reading
What every artist needs to know about music publishing
Marc Caruso, CEO, and Co-Founder, of Angry Mob Music, joins Michael Brandbold and Jay Gilbert on the Music Biz Weekly podcast to clearly explain what publishing is and why every. Continue reading
What Artists Can Learn From Travis Scott [Video]
A rapper, singer, producer, and brand consultant extraordinaire, Travis Scott has managed to attain an unprecedented level of success, all without compromising his vision. Here, we look at what other. Continue reading
What would Taylor Swift and Eddie Cue do? One solution to the frozen mechanical problem
The Copyright Royalty Board is seemingly on the cusp of allowing a private agreement among several major industry players regarding frozen mechanical royalties to become law. Chris Castle here examines. Continue reading
AFM & SAG-AFTRA IP Rights Distribution Fund paid $7M to non-featured performers last year
Up $10m from the previous year, the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund has handed out a record-breaking $70m to non-featured performers, including many instrumentalists and vocalists who. Continue reading
These 126 members of Congress don’t think musicians deserve to get paid when they are played on the radio
A resolution opposing “any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge” on broadcast radio stations now has 112 cosponsors in the US House of Representative and 14 in the. Continue reading
Apple Music adds Spatial and Lossless Audio with no price increase [OFFICIAL]
Apple today announced major upgrades to thw quality of sound delivered by Apple Music with no increase in price. As rumored, starting in June, Apple Music will add thousands of. Continue reading
Amazon Music matches Apple with HD and 3D music at no extra cost
Just a half-hour after Apple Music announced that it was adding Lossless and Spatial audio at no extra cost, Amazon Music struck back with an audio announcement of its own.. Continue reading
