beatBread Debuts Fractional Investing Platform; How Spotify’s RapCaviar Playlist Became A Must-See TV Series

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— beatBread brings fractional investing to the independent artist funding scene

Music funding platform beatBread has launched a new tool that will allow investors to buy a share of the profits made from the platform’s funding of independent artists.

The move is likely to make a major impact on the amount of money that artists are able to access through beatBread.

— The music industry obsesses over artist performance statistics – where are label performance statistics?

One of the watchwords in labels recently has been a focus on the ‘value proposition’ for artists, and it is easy to see why.

In the streaming and social age, where independent self-releasing artists can get their music out into the world without a label, why should they sign to one at all?

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