De La Soul Protests Streaming Deal for Its Classic Albums; SoundCloud’s Urban Culture Streams Into…

Legendary Hip-Hop Act De La Soul Protests Streaming Deal for Its Classic Albums — fortune.com De La Soul’s classic hip-hop records are…

Legendary Hip-Hop Act De La Soul Protests Streaming Deal for Its Classic Albums — fortune.com 
 De La Soul’s classic hip-hop records are finally coming to streaming. But the band members claim label Tommy Boy isn’t paying them enough.

SoundCloud’s Urban Culture Streams Into Spotify & Apple Music — www.forbes.com 
 Artist first platform SoundCloud has thrown their hat in the ring for music distribution, by adding its own tools to premium accounts. With the top streaming artist being from the hip hop genre, SoundCloud will need to entice more indie rappers to join its platform.

Spotify’s Official India Debut Includes a World First: Free Mobile App Users Can Play Any Song On-Demand — variety.com 
 Spotify is letting Indian music fans play any song on-demand from the free smartphone app, a feature it doesn’t offer anywhere else.

This new app finds records using your Spotify playlists — thevinylfactory.com 
 new app called Record Radar scans your Spotify playlists to find those tracks on vinyl in stores, using Discogs’ database.

iHeartMedia to Acquire Radiojar — Platform & Stream — platformandstream.com

iHeartMedia today announced it acquired Athens, Greece-based online audio technology company Radiojar Information Technology.

Spotify plans to add interest-based targeting to its self-serve platform — digiday.com 
 The focus on growing its ad business comes as most of Spotify’s revenue comes from the ad-free, subscription product.

Brand Intimacy…For Radio — jacobsmedia.com 
 12 steps for creating an intimate radio brand.

Major labels made $19m an hour from streaming in 2018 — musically.com 
 With all three major labels having published their financial results for the final quarter of 2018 — and thus for the year as a whole — we can get a picture of how their digital businesses grew.

Spotify Game ‘Top Of The Spots’ Is Truly Addictive — hypebot — www.hypebot.com 
 Top Of The Spots has a simple premise: choose which of two randomly chosen tracks on Spotify got the most cumulative plays. Playing this free game is truly addictive, particularly for us music junkies, and far harder than you’d think. Play Top Of The Spots here.

MyMusicTokens keeps tabs on blockchain-music startups — musically.com 
 AudioCoin, Musicoin, Opus, Aventus, Musiconomi and more… Music Ally has written about a variety of startups exploring the crossover between blockchain technology and the music industry, with several of these companies having launched their own ‘tokens’.Now there’s a site for keeping track of AND trading those tokens. It’s called MyMusicTokens.

Streaming Revenue Is Impressive, But Will It Ever Make Up For Physical Product Losses? — www.forbes.com 
 Music streaming revenue is way up and growing, but will it be enough to offset the loss of physical sales?