Spotify has confirmed that Doug Ford, a senior director and head of music culture & editorial, will be exiting the streamer. Ford, who joined Spotify in 2013 as part of its acquisition of music discovery app Tunigo, has been one of Spotify’s top executives in charge of playlisting across genres….
Category archives: Digital Music
INgrooves Joins eMusic Exodus Over Late Payments
INgrooves has joined a growing group of distributors and record labels pulling their music from eMusic over continued payment problems, a spokesperson told Hypebot Monday. Just weeks ago, The Orchard and Naxos separately pulled their extensive catalogs from the struggling subscription music download platform. Multiple sources tell Hypebot that many…
Music’s $20M A Month Man: Spotify’s Daniel Ek Shows Tim Westergren How It’s Done
The industry gave a collective gasp of horror when founder Tim Westergren was pulling down $1,000,000 by selling of Pandora stock while simultaneously fighting artists with royalty loopholes. Chris Castle writes that Spotify’s Daniel Ek is leaving Westergren in the financial dust with a monthly windfall of $20 million. __________________________…
Rules For Success For Blockchain Music Entrepreneurs [George Howard]
While blockchain has long been thought of as God-send and natural fit for the music industry, the budding technology has yet to live up to the hype surrounding it. In his "Howard Test," George Howard outlines what it will take for the technology to reach its potential. _________________________________ Part 1…
Uploading Your Music Online Doesn’t Get You Tons Of Fans
Putting your music online is obviously an essential part of accruing fans, but a "build it and they will come" mentality does no one any good. Here we look at what is actually necessary to building a database of fans. _________________________ In this most recent post on MusicThinkTank, Tom Hess…
Don’t Get Fooled Again: Piracy Still A Huge Problem
While it may not seem like the trendiest of internet scourges, piracy remains a huge issue. While many thought that the low cost and easy accessibility would bring about an end to illegal downloads, the fact that piracy still accounts for more than a third of music consumption suggests the…
Naxos Joins eMusic Exodus Over Non-Payment
Classical music powerhouse Naxos of America today joined a growing list of labels and distributors pulling it’s 1.8 million track, 80,000 album owned and distributed catalog from eMusic due to " continued non-payment, as well as non-reporting." Naxos of America issued this statement: “The decision to remove our content from…
3 Digital Marketing Trends You Need To Know
The world of digital music marketing is complex and ever shifting, making success in such an area a challenge. That said, there are some things we can do to try and keep up. Here we look at three current marketing trends every entrepreneuring artist ought to be aware of. _____________________________________…
Digital Music Promotion: 5 Keys To Success
The world of online promotion is a crowded one, with new music being released everyday, it can be difficult to get your work noticed at all. Unfortunately there’s not silver bullet when it comes to digital music promotion, but here we look some tips that can at least improve your…
Court Blocks UMG Attempt To ‘Vicarious’ Infringement
While internet provider Cox came off poorly in its recent case against BMG, Mike Masnick of Techdirt believes that the circumstances of that case were unique, and that is why labels trying to win similar cases by expanding the definition of ‘vicarious’ infringement are having less success. _____________________________ Op-ed by…