How One Artist Beat the Independent Blues with Blockchain; Music Business: Biggest Growth in 20…

Token of My Success: How one artist beat the independent blues with blockchain — rightstech.com

Token of My Success: How one artist beat the independent blues with blockchain — rightstech.com

Singer/songwriter Tatiana Moroz shares her personal story of how she came to embrace blockchain and cryptocurrencies, and how she got involved with Tokenly.

Music Business: Biggest Growth in 20 Years, But YouTube Threat Looms — variety.com 
 The music industry showed its biggest growth in 20 years, according to the IFPI’s annual report, but YouTube remains the biggest threat.

How CDs Have Been Supplanted by Music Streaming — www.newsweek.com 
 Americans spent $75 per person in 1999 on recorded music compared to only $23 last year.

SoundExchange CEO Points to SiriusXM’s Growth for Royalty Rate Increase Optimism — www.billboard.com 
 SoundExchange president and CEO Michael Huppe is optimistic about the current rate increase trial in Washington, DC, against Satellite Radio and “Preexisting” Subscription Services (SDARS III) — the category solely used by SiriusXM.

JoJo’s Debut Album Not on Spotify Because of Former Label: See Her Tweets About It — www.billboard.com 
 If you’ve noticed that JoJo’s classic self-titled debut is no longer available for all the streams you want on Spotify, you’re not alone.

Tencent-backed music streaming services top most popular music apps — technode.com 
 Tencent-backed music apps KuGou (酷狗 in Chinese), QQ Music (QQ音乐 in Chinese) and Kuwo (酷我in Chinese) were the three most popular music apps in China in terms of monthly active users (MAU) in the first quarter of 2017.

The 25-year reign of CDs is over as low-cost digital music takes over and makes us all ‘music millionaires’ — www.aei.org 
 The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently released recorded music sales revenue figures for 2016 and some of the historical music sales

Fling founder Marco Nardone has incorporated a new music streaming startup called Gig FM — www.businessinsider.com 
 The company was incorporated by Nardone on January 23, less than half a year after Fling went bankrupt, according to a document filed with Companies House.

U.S. Latin Recorded-Music Industry Sees First Revenue Growth In More Than a Decade — www.billboard.com 
 Revenue from the Latin sector of the U.S. recorded-music industry grew last year for the first time since 2005, up three percent over 2015 to $176 million, according to the RIAA.

Spotify brings “Behind the Lyrics” to Android — techcrunch.com 
 Over a year ago, Spotify inked a deal with music annotation startup Genius to provide the backstory to the songs you’re streaming through a feature called.