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# REWIND: New music industry’s last week in review
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/rewind-the-new-music-industrys-week-in-review-298/
- Published: 2024-04-06T12:34:20.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-07T12:40:58.000Z
- Description: Last week was a busy week by any definition; the music industry was no exception, with CD Baby and Downtown Music merging operations, Spotify changing how they allocate royalties the Records , and more…..
- Author: Alana Bonilla
- Tags: Music Business, music, music industry, musician, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Last week was a busy week by any definition, and the music industry was no exception. CD Baby and Downtown Music merged operations, Spotify changed how it allocates royalties and more.

- [**The Great Streaming Purge begins! Deezer tosses 26M ‘useless’ tracks**](https://www.hypebot.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=83463&action=edit)
- [**Infamous Record Store Crawl returns for a 7-City Comeback Tour**](https://www.hypebot.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=83527&action=edit)
- [**CD Baby operations have been merged with Downtown Music**](https://www.hypebot.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=83545&action=edit)
- [**Lessons from $300M sale of the KISS brand, catalog: ‘This is the future, and the rules are being written now.’**](https://www.hypebot.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=83569&action=edit)
- [**Spotify claims rules now in effect will shift $1B to ‘Working Artists’**](https://www.hypebot.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=83566&action=edit)
- [**Lessons from $300M sale of the KISS brand, catalog: ‘This is the future, and the rules are being written now.’**](https://www.hypebot.com/lessons-from-300m-sale-of-the-kiss-brand-catalog-this-is-the-future-and-the-rules-are-being-written-now/)