Can Country Music Save Pandora? TuneCore Launches Premium App; Musical.ly Connects with Apple Music
Can country music save Pandora? — www.theverge.com
After months of teasing, Pandora finally unveiled its much-touted Premium platform to the public two weeks ago, along with a massive marketing campaign called “Sounds Like You.” Featuring mixtapes…
Musical.ly in harmony with Apple Music following latest tie-up — www.thedrum.com
Popular music video app Musical.ly has joined the Apple fold in a bid to extend its global reach with Apple Music, providing the snippets of songs used to power the service from Friday.
Google now shows links to music and video streaming services in iOS search results — 9to5mac.com
Google will today start displaying links to streaming services when iOS users search for music or video content, a feature that was previously only available on Android.
TuneCore Launches Premium App, Tools for Social Management — www.billboard.com
Digital distributor TuneCore has announced the launch of TuneCore Social Pro, a set of premium tools that allows artists to manage both their social media activity and distribution sales in one place.
Secrecy around streaming still making it too difficult for artists to know if they’re getting a fair deal — www.completemusicupdate.com
Labels and publishers may now be sharing more usage and royalty data with artists, songwriters and their managers, but there are still gaps in that information which make it hard to know if royalties are being paid fairly and correctly.
Spotify’s GC on Moving from Microsoft to the Music Streaming Service — bol.bna.com
When Horacio Gutierrez left Microsoft Corporation last year to lead the law department at Spotify, he placed a bet on the music streaming company’s future.
China Rising & Downloads Falling: 5 Takeaways From the IFPI’s Global Music Report — www.billboard.com
Five key trends from the IFPI’s annual report on the health of the global recorded-music industry, from China’s big opportunity to the acceleration — both positive and negative — across the board.
Amazon is taking a more simplistic approach to music streaming — www.theverge.com
Six months ago, Amazon launched Music Unlimited, its on-demand music service, designed to compete against the likes of Spotify and Apple Music. Six months later the company hasn’t shared any…
Major labels ‘positive and hopeful’ about Facebook licensing — musically.com
Representatives from the three major labels are hopeful that Facebook’s music-licensing ambitions will be a positive thing for the industry.
The massive rise of music streaming in South Africa — mybroadband.co.za
Revenues from music streaming have seen a huge increase in South Africa.
Apple Music Goes Hollywood: Inside Jimmy Iovine’s Video Plans — www.bloomberg.com
The company wants to turn its music app into a one-stop shop for pop culture.
CD Baby Brings DIY Musician Conference to Nashville for First Time this Summer — platformandstream.com
CD Baby will bring the DIY Musician Conference to Nashville August 24–27, 2017. It will turn Music City into a temporary hub for one of the most dynamic parts of the music business: the indie music scene, the musicians of all backgrounds and styles who shape their own careers, on their own terms.
The Music Blog: On the rise of streaming and death of the album format — ynaija.com
With the release of More Life, Drake became the first major label mainstream artist to release a playlist, effectively marking the beginning of of previously speculated eventual death of the album format.