Finding Your Way in a Sea of Music; Spotify Turms Your Listening Binges Into Millions for Artists

Finding your way in a sea of music — medium.com 
 Today’s music fan has it good. Almost too good, in fact. Believe it or not, the amount of music available to consumers has grown 400-fold in fewer than 15 years.

Spotify is turning your listening binges into millions for artists — news.fastcompany.com 
 The next time you binge on a guilty pleasure on Spotify, maybe you shouldn’t feel so bad after all.

‘Fair Play, Fair Pay’ Act Gains Momentum, But Faces Uphill Climb — variety.com 
 The Fair Play Fair Pay Act, which would force radio to pay royalties to artists and labels, has added 15 sponsors since March 30.

Bonnaroo 2017: You’d have to listen to 8.89 years of music to equal the data moved here Saturday — www.tennessean.com 
 With hundreds of media members covering hundreds of bands, there is a lot of information flying across the world from Bonnaroo.

How Pandora let $1.5B slip away — nypost.com 
 After nearly a year of on-again, off-again talks to sell itself, Pandora, the struggling radio streamer, said Friday it had agreed to accept a $480 million…

Introducing DistroKid Vault — news.distrokid.com 
 Keep your music files safe with the power of DistroKid, Amazon, and 99.99999999% durability.

A kinder, gentler sound for digital audio — www.cnet.com 
 Old tech lends a new sound to the BorderPatrol Digital to Analogue Converter.

Radio Disney Country Expands to Include L.A. Stations, New Streaming Platforms — www.billboard.com 
 On Friday (June 9), Radio Disney announced that Radio Disney Country will expand with the launch of two Los Angeles stations and increased digital streaming.

Streaming to dominate future music consumption, says report — www.m-magazine.co.uk

With Taylor Swift’s music streaming again, is she trying to take down Katy Perry? — www.latimes.com 
 Taylor Swift’s music has been restored to streaming services in celebration of her “1989” album selling more than 10 million copies wor…