SoundCloud CEO Talks Music Biz Issues; The New Crate-Digging; A New Kind of Live Music Gig Economy…
Beats Music Veteran Pushes a New Kind of Live Music Gig Economy — www.bloomberg.com Spotify Technology SA got hundreds of millions of…
Beats Music Veteran Pushes a New Kind of Live Music Gig Economy — www.bloomberg.com
Spotify Technology SA got hundreds of millions of people hooked on streaming without achieving its other big ambition: to break the hold of the big music labels and let artists sell their work direct to fans.
Why SoundCloud has the music business right where it wants it. — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
Michael Weissman, CEO of SoundCloud, answers MBW’s questions on payout models, tipping, and where the music industry’ is going.
The New Crate-Digging: How Spotify Uses AI — ufo-network.com
How Spotify utilizes modern ‘Crate-digging’ technique’s through artificial intelligence to find new music for you.
“The job will never be finished”: diving into music rights data and royalty systems with Phil Barry from Blokur — music-tomorrow.com
“In a nutshell, we work on improving music rights data.”
Huntsville-Madison County Public Library launching music streaming platform, looking for local artists — whnt.com
The library says that Musicians from Colbert, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan counties are eligible to submit music for consideration.
Songwriters Are Getting Drastically Short-Changed in the Music-Streaming Economy, Study Shows — variety.com
Songwriters are getting dramatically short-changed by the music-streaming economy, according to a new report from Midia Research.
Spotify Calls Apple’s App Store Restrictions ‘An Abusive Power Grab’ — www.macrumors.com
At an App Store antitrust hearing that took place today, Spotify and Match Group (the company behind Tinder) accused Apple of abusing its App Store…
Play MPE Is Bringing Its Music Discovery and Promotion Tools to the Booming Latin Market — www.digitalmusicnews.com
Play MPE is now laying out ambitious plans to expand its delivery and promotional tools into the fast growing Latin market.
PortalDisc App is a new a ‘hyper-localized and hyper-targeted’ music streaming service in Chile — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
Platform offers 130,000 Chilean songs from 300 national labels and more than 7,000 independent artists…
Apple Music Editorial Content Is Coming to Apple News — www.macstories.net
Currently, the Apple Music content in News is limited with a total of ten stories that stretch back just one week as of the publication of this article and divided into four sections: All, Albums, Playlists, and Radio.
Spotify founder Daniel Ek expands his Brilliant Minds Foundation, adds new CEO — www.fastcompany.com
Incoming leader Annastasia Seebohm plans to revive the signature Brilliant Minds summit in Stockholm in June 2022.
Sony Unleashes Three Powerful Portable Speaker To Get The Party Started — www.forbes.com
Sony has just launched a range of three new Series party speakers. They are designed to provide powerful and wide-spreading sound to suit almost any genre of music.
Nordoff Robbins launches We Are Listening series — www.musicweek.com
Nordoff Robbins has announced the launch of We Are Listening — a campaign to showcase the immense value music therapy brings to the lives of those living with profound disability.
YouTube Head of Music Lyor Cohen Talks Tech-Creative Divide, Signing DMX, Cardi B’s ‘WAP’ and Who Should Run Def Jam — variety.com
On the ‘Strictly Business’ podcast, YouTube global head of music Lyor Cohen talks about the tech-creative divide, DMX and Cardi B’s ‘WAP.’
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