Industry insiders suggest Spotify will eventually end up under the ownership of a larger corporation. Here are five that could make a play for the streaming giant.
The fact is that metadata issues cause a lot of damage to the industry. Compromised metadata hurts the user experience on the streaming services, cuts off a portion of publishing revenues and robs songwriters out of the well-deserved credit — and that’s just the beginning.
Of all the startup demos I’ve been given over the last decade working for Music Ally, Super Hi-Fi’s is the first that involves listening to Seal’s 1990s hit ‘Crazy’ being mixed into classic jazz cut ‘Monk’s Dream’ by Thelonious Monk.
The Raconteurs have teamed with nugs.net to provide free live streams of the band's upcoming residency at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Apple's AirPods business will generate nearly $8 billion in revenue this year and contribute $5 billion to gross profit. That's big business.
If TikTok is going to pay sizeable royalties to music rightsholders at some point, it’s going to need sizeable revenues, with advertising likely to loom large.
Spotify has announced two additions to its self-serve ad platform: interest targeting and real-time context targeting.
The National Music Publishers Association is challenging Spotify and Amazon’s methods of determining mechanical royalties, putting into question whether the services are underpaying publishers.
Independent artists using digital distribution service Distrokid can now get their music on TikTok.
DJ music service Beatsource has brought on Grammy-nominated DJ A-Trak on to its board of managers as the platform gets set to launch its online download store next month.
Streaming services from Apple, Amazon, Hulu, Spotify, SiriusXM and others have discounts for students, handy as they head back to school.
Spotify saved a record industry facing death at the hands of peer-to-peer pirates in the 2000s. But today no good deed goes unpunished as the Swedish streamer is encircled by music biz sharks and litigious buccaneers on the roiling sea that is the music business.
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