500 million people use short music video app TikTok every month and 66% of them are under 30. If that’s the audience for your music, you need to be active on the platform. But where do you start? ______________________________ By James Shotwell of Haulix TikTok is creating new music stars…
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FRIDAY 10.11.19
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CD Baby, Tunecore Add China For DIY Music Distribution
Tunecore and CD Baby have each just added China’s largest streaming music service – Tencent Music, its subsidiaries and partners – to their indie and d.i.y. music distribution networks. When users deliver their music to Tencent, they will be available on: QQ Music – A leading online music service with…
Bandsintown Launches First-Ever Predictive Touring Charts For Established and Emerging Artists
Bandsintown has launched 24 Worldwide, US and City Live Music Charts that will be published on Bandsintown, Bandsintown for Artists, and Hypebot starting today. The concert discovery platform has also partnered with Billboard to exclusively publish the Billboard + Bandsintown Tour Index, four weekly charts launching later this month. These…
Tencent Puts Select Music Behind Paywall, Promises More
Chinese music streaming giant Tencent Music Entertainment is experimenting with driving revenue by making some content exclusive and unavailable to its ad-supported users. It’s a practice once popular in label circles but vehemently opposed by streaming leader Spotify. According to Music Business Worldwide’s Tim Ingham, Tencent Music Entertainment has introduced…
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THURSDAY 10.10.19
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PledgeMusic Bankruptcy Receiver Has ‘No Update’ 2 Months After Appointment
The Official Receiver named to oversee the liquidation of PledgeMusic.com Ltd had "no update" when contacted this week by Hypebot. A spokesperson for the Official Receiver, who was appointed on July 31st by a UK court, told Hyepbot: “The Official Receiver was appointed liquidator of PledgeMusic.com Limited in the High…
Shazam Added 78 Million Users Last Year
Shazam finished 2018 with 478 million users, up 78 million from the previous year. The stat came as part of a UK financial filing that also showed that revenue fell 23% to just $38 million USD last year. But the drop didn’t really matter since Shazam was acquired by Apple…
Music Tectonics Trading Cards Capture Seismic Shifts Reshaping Music Industry [EXCLUSIVE]
Dmitri Vietze and the team behind the new LA music technology conference, Music Tectonics, is launching a set of thought-provoking music industry-related “Seismic Shifts” trading cards. Each card pairs an illustration alongside a transformative theme and short explanation. Hypebot is debuting the first four cards today. The cards are the…
What Musicians Have The Most Fans On Facebook?
As of last month, Shakira was the most popular musician on Facebook with almost 101 million fans on the social media. In contrast, Beyoncé was ranked tenth with 62 million Facebook fans despite her 23 Grammy Awards and other accolades. via statista