Buying SoundBetter’s the easy part. Now, Spotify’s gotta figure out what to do with it. And Spotify’s latest acquisition? That would be SoundBetter, an audio production professional marketplace that’s been quietly facilitating collaborations since 2012…
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Small Claims Copyright Court Is Getting Closer to Reality — A Full Congressional Vote On the ‘CASE Act’ Is Next
What if smaller copyright infringement cases could be quickly resolved in the U.S. legal system — just like Small Claims Court? That’s the idea behind the newly-revived CASE Act. We’ve been covering various initiatives in U.S. Congress to create a sma…
Check Out BMG’s New 36,000 Sq. Ft. Nashville Office Space
BMG just opened some flashy new digs in Nashville. Over the years, we’ve profiled some high-priced office spaces from the likes of Pandora, SoundCloud, Warner Music Group, and — most opulently — Spotify. Now, it looks like BMG is joining the Joneses, …
The Latest Music Industry Gigs: Spotify, LiveXLive, BMI, Sony/ATV, UMPG, Empire, Big Loud, More
Here’s a recap of recent executive shuffles — including both hirings and in-house promotions — from across the music industry. If you have a job listing to share, we’re all ears. Send us a note to news@digitalmusicnews.com. If you’d like to post a job…
Tool’s ‘Fear Inoculum’ Becomes the #1 Album In the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and Belgium
After a 13 year hiatus, Tool is topping the album charts on multiple continents. Just last week, Tool’s Fear Inoculum was drawing huge crowds at record stores across the U.S., with lines out the door at some shops. That was pretty shocking given that …
Rhapsody Agrees to Release $10 Million In Unpaid Royalties — Here’s How to Get Paid
Rhapsody International has agreed to pay $10 million over unpaid streaming royalties to artists. The preliminary settlement follows years of litigation spearheaded by artist-activist David Lowery. The litigation, first initiated in March of 2016, alle…
Tool’s $45 CD Draws Huge Crowds at Indie Record Stores — With Lines Out the Door at Multiple Locations
Tool’s $45 record is set to out-chart Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey. Tool’s first album in 13 years, Fear Inoculum, has made a major splash at independent music stores. Mobs of Tool fans lined up for the record’s midnight launch, and countless others …
U.S. Recording Industry Booms 18% to $5.4 Billion In the First Half of 2019 — Here’s the Complete Data
Despite anxiety over a streaming slowdown, the US-based recording industry is still posting double-digit gains. This is nowhere near the U.S. recording industry’s glory days of 1999-2000, when annual revenues were topping $20 billion — adjusted for inf…
800,000 Installs Later, FIX Music Rewards Introduces In-App E-Commerce
FIX is quietly amassing a serious crowd around music rewards. Now, the strategy is shifting towards in-app monetization. Over the summer, we first documented Toronto-based FIX, a music rewards app that quietly surpassed 600,000 app installs. Two month…
More Signs of a Streaming Music Slowdown — This Time from the Netherlands
There isn’t much room for streaming music growth in The Netherlands, according to the latest statistics. But this isn’t just a Dutch dilemma. For months, we’ve been pointing to a streaming music plateau in wealthier, developed nations of Europe as wel…