Music Biz Gets Smart About Data; Prince Estate, Tidal Partner for New Album; Billboard vs. YouTube

After Cambridge Analytica, music biz gets smart about data — www.iq-mag.net 
 In the wake of the Facebook scandal, music industry marketers are ensuring their houses are in order as the 25 May General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline approaches.

Prince Estate Partners With Tidal & Jay-Z for Vault-Driven Album Planned for 2019 — www.billboard.com

Tidal and Prince’s estate announced that a batch of previously unreleased music from the late icon’s vaults will make up a new album, expected to be released in 2019, with Tidal owner Jay-Z working directly with the estate on song selection.

A War Is Brewing Between Billboard and YouTube Over Music Charts — www.rollingstone.com

YouTube announces its first-ever trending music chart, with more to come

Spotify ‘hateful conduct’ policy must be handled carefully — musically.com 
 Spotify has announced a new policy on how it deals with hateful content on its platform. It comes with an internal content-monitoring tool called Spotify AudioWatch

Audiam Brings Its Portal for Hunting Unclaimed Royalties to Writer, Publisher Clients — www.billboard.com 
 Audiam, the digital reproduction rights collection agency, is bringing the technology that it uses to track down unclaimed money of copyright owners to its client portal so that artists, songwriters, publishers and labels can see detailed reports on every version of a song at every service, even covers that songwriters and publishers might not know existed.

NPR And Spotify Team Up To Feed Your Podcast Addiction — radio.wpsu.org 
 Public radio podcast lovers, clear your schedules: Spotify users now have the NPR podcast catalogue at their fingertips. From classic NPR favorites like

Epidemic Sound launches Break.Through program to develop artists — musically.com 
 Swedish music company Epidemic Sound is launching a new program called Break.Through, which it claims will empower independent musicians in new ways.

LANDR Adds Royalty Free Samples From Dirty Projectors, More — www.hypebot.com 
 LANDR has launched “Samples” to provide royalty-free samples to the 1.7 million producers using the AI driven automated mastering service.

Why did the Instagram of music fail? — www.theverge.com

It’s hard to make a sticky social music experience.

Radio’s Struggle to Cross the Generational Divide — jacobsmedia.com 
 There are two unpopular demographics with radio — aging Boomers and Generation Z — that could prove to be game-changers, both in the short and long terms.

7 Tips For Turning Playlist Placement Into Long Term Streaming Activity — www.hypebot.com 
 With streaming the dominant form of music consumption, landing a good playlist placement has become a Holy Grail for artists.

SoundCloud Appoints Mark Eisenberg SVP of Content Partnerships — www.billboard.com 
 SoundCloud has hired digital music veteran Mark Eisenberg as senior vice president, content partnerships.