How Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Pop; Neil Young Fights for Quality Streaming

Uncovering How Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Pop

pitchfork.com 
 Hit-making songwriters and producers reveal the ways they are tailoring tracks to fit a musical landscape dominated by streaming.

Neil Young fights for quality streaming with career-spanning online archive — www.latimes.com 
 In adapting his long-gestating Neil Young Archives to the age of streaming, the veteran rocker continues his push for quality sound and vision.

Unbundling Music Streaming in Web3 — medium.com 
 Music is not the exception to Jim Barksdale’s quote. Much of the evolution of the music business can be explained through a spiral of bundling and unbundling.

UI alumnus Tuma Basa setting the trends in hip hop — now.uiowa.edu 
 UI alumnus Tuma Basa determines what hip hop songs Spotify plays, breaking acts nationally.

Technology robbed American songwriters of their income — it’s time the law catches up — thehill.com 
 As technology exploded, one of my new songs was available — for free — on 1,100 websites a week before the album was released.

Private Trades in Spotify Shares to Play Key Role in Upcoming Debut — www.wsj.com 
 Spotify AB is counting on its surging private-market value to bolster the music-streaming service’s appeal to investors in an unorthodox public debut that could be the biggest since Snap Inc.’s $20 billion IPO last year.

Four Points that Playlist Curators look for — medium.com 
 When pitching your music to a playlist, what are the curators looking for to confirm placement? Let’s dive into it. Landing the right music discovery opportunities can provide independent artists the…

Spotify Connect: What it is and why it’s awesome — www.androidcentral.com 
 You can play Spotify on connected speakers, smart TVs, cars, and just about anything else you can think of, but how do you actually send your music to all of these devices? Spotify Connect, of course!

Streaming Platforms Are Changing Music Promotion, Discovery — www.hypebot.com 
 While streaming has revitalized the music industry in lots of ways, many artists continue to struggle to make ends meet, something which the launch of numerous new analytic and discovery features by streaming services could help to change.

Another senior Spotify exec out — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

The boss of Spotify’s licensing of original content, Pat Shah, has left the company.

Yale radio suspends operations — yaledailynews.com

WYBCx, Yale’s student-run online radio station, has temporarily ceased operations after discovering it does not have licensing agreements for the music it plays.