How Much is a Festive Hit Worth in the Digital Age?;
All I Want for Christmas: How Much is a Festive Hit Worth in the Digital Age? — www.synchtank.com Ben Gilbert investigates just how…
All I Want for Christmas: How Much is a Festive Hit Worth in the Digital Age? — www.synchtank.com
Ben Gilbert investigates just how lucrative festive hits are for artists, labels and music rights holders in the digital age.
Radiohead Upload Their Entire Discography to YouTube — consequenceofsound.net
Radiohead have uploaded their entire discography to YouTube. It’s likely in response to Billboard’s new YouTube policy for album charts.
YouTube Music Is Beating Everyone in India | The Motley Fool — www.fool.com
But don’t count out Spotify entirely.
Discogs App Launches Song Previews With Apple Music — www.broadwayworld.com
Discogs, the leading online physical music exchange, now enables users to preview millions of songs through the Discogs App.
How We Predicted Top Rap Artists to Break in 2020 — soundcharts.com
The applications of data analytics in A&R has been a hot topic in the industry for a long time.
Is The Clock Ticking On Classic Rock? — jacobsmedia.com
Six key reasons why Classic Rock is on the rise.
8 Tools: How To Think About Artificial Intelligence In The Music Industry — www.hypebot.com
As artificial intelligence continues to grow and develop, its presence is affecting more and more industries.
We’ve tested Bytedance’s Resso app: here are our first impressions — musically.com
Earlier this month, we reported on Resso, the new music-streaming app that TikTok’s parent company Bytedance is testing in India and Indonesia.
For Spotify, music might not actually be the key to success — wtop.com
Spotify’s content chief Dawn Ostroff is leading the music behemoth into an entirely new area that’s all about words, not riffs: podcasts.
Amazon Music is the one streaming service you shouldn’t ignore — www.androidcentral.com
I know that we’re all inundated with streaming media apps and services, particularly when it comes to music.
How SoundExchange’s Reverse Bounty-Hunters Are Getting Artists Paid: ‘We Become Stalkers’ — www.billboard.com
As the DIY community grows, and international artists cross over to U.S. listeners, the royalty-collecting organization is finding new ways to track down unregistered artists.
Stuart Dredge of Music Ally: 2019’s Music Industry Megatrends — www.stitcher.com
Music Ally just released Stuart Dredge’s “The 42 Trends of 2019,” a comprehensive end-of-year report for the music biz.
Indie Music Consumption Has More Than Doubled Since 2015 on Napster — www.digitalmusicnews.com
According to data released by Napster, indie music consumption on tha platform has doubled since 2015. One-third of the 100 most streamed artists are indie.
Spotify end of year stats…there’s a lot to unwrap — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
This MBW blog comes from Matt Brinkworth, who is an artist manager and Head of Digital at Omnian Music Group
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