Social Media, Not Streaming, is the Music Industry’s Future; NetEase’s Streaming Music Biz…
Social Media, Not Streaming, Is the Music Industry’s Future — www.rollingstone.com
Social Media, Not Streaming, Is the Music Industry’s Future — www.rollingstone.com
Music-streaming subscriptions contribute $8.5 billion a year to the record business — but the biggest future growth may lie in social media, gaming, livestreaming, and fitness.
NetEase’s Streaming Music Business Deserves a Closer Look — www.fool.com
NetEase Cloud Music is quietly becoming a secondary growth engine for the Chinese tech giant.
Radio Disney To Halt Operations In Early 2021, Capping 25-Year Hitmaking Run — deadline.com
Radio Disney and Radio Disney Country will cease operations in the first quarter of 2021 as the company’s sweeping realignment continues.
Jaxsta’s ‘Humans of Music’ podcast picked up by radio giant SiriusXM — themusicnetwork.com
One year after launching its Humans of Music podcast, Jaxsta has revealed the series will now be syndicated across the US by satellite and online radio network SiriusXM.
Spotify Looking for Associate Director to Lead Activity on Libra Project, Other Crypto Efforts — www.coindesk.com
Spotify is on the hunt for a new associate director to lead its activity within the Libra stablecoin project, recently renamed to Diem.
Nile Rodgers to give evidence to MPs on impact of music streaming — www.nme.com
Chic legend Nile Rodgers is among the latest musicians to give evidence to a DCMS committee on the impact of music streaming.
Why the cynicism around streaming royalty rates misses the big picture — theindustryobserver.thebrag.com
Streaming is driving a resurgence in recorded music and the industry is returning to its highest revenue since the turn of the millennium
Spotify Wrapped is the best thing about the internet, but it’ also indicative of the future of streaming audio — observer.case.edu
I don’t know about you all, but my social media has been flooded with people posting their 2020 Spotify Wrapped, showcasing their top music from the last year — and it might be the distillation of all my favorite things about the internet and the digital age.
Universal launches audio-visual content house Mercury Studios, led by CEO Alice Webb — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
Eagle Rock brand retired; Mercury Studios will produce content across performance/live, factual/reality, scripted, artist and filmmaker partnerships…
Rockford Musician Implores Fans To Stop Streaming Music — q985online.com
After reading this, you may feel like you’re actually stealing from the bands, at least that’s how I felt.
Music RouteNote Passes 500,000 User Milestone — www.hypebot.com
Independent digital music distributor RouteNote has announced that it has more than half a million users globally. The milestone is particularly impressive since, unlike many of its competitors like CD.
Spotify taps big-name musicians to help test Instagram-like stories — www.engadget.com
The latest test includes artists talking about their holiday songs.
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