MONDAY 12.3.18
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Apple Music To Grow To 164M Users As iTunes Crashes [Morgan Stanley]
Apple Music will continue its growth trajectory, according analysts at Morgan Stanley. Over the next five years, Apple Music’s 5% market penetration will expand to 14%of a growing user base of Apple’s products, driving a 28% revenue growth. Apple Music is predicted to grow to 164 million users by 2023….
Spotify Unveils Wonderful Data Driven Billboards, Ads
The annual Spotify Wrapped billboard and ad campaign highlights unusual stats from the streamer’s users. In an era when data privacy is a universal concern, Spotify is encouraging people to go public as part of an “Overshared” initiative that will feature the year-end stats of users that submit them. spotify…
YouTube Opens Stories To Creators With 10,000 Subscribers
YouTube has expanded Stories to all creators with more than 10,000 subscribers., as it said it would in June. YouTube launched its own version of Stories which was initially available only to select YouTube creators.
Wilco’s dBpm Records Signs With ADA Worlwide, Jeff Tweedy Solo Album Out Today
Warner Music Group’s indie arm ADA Worldwide has inked dBpm Records, the record label founded by Wilco in 2011. The deal includes Wilco front-man Jeff Tweedy’s first all-original solo album, WARM, out today. Wilco had been affiliated with WMG’s Nonesuch label. Headquartered in Chicago, the label has released all of…
Spotify’s Vanja Primorac Joins UTA As Music Innovations Exec
Talent and entertainment agency, United Talent Agency has hired from Spotify executive Vanja Primorac as an executive focused on Music Innovations. In this newly created role, she will identify and create marketing, distribution, and platform partnership deals for UTA’s client roster. “UTA is taking a holistic approach to their artist…
Personal Managers Hall Of Fame Calls For Nominations
Nominations are now being accepted for consideration of individuals as 2019 Inductees into the Personal Managers Hall Of Fame. Established by the National Conference of Personal Managers Inc. (NCOPM), the Personal Managers Hall Of Fame celebrates illustrious careers in entertainment, music, sports and talent management. Inductees will be selected by…
Apple Music Coming to Amazon Echo Devices
Apple Music will be available on Amazon’s Echo voice controlled devices beginning the week of December 17. Users will be able to ask Alexa to play songs, artists, albums and Apple. Users can also ask Alexa to stream Beats 1 one or curated radio stations centered on popular genres like…
Facebook’s Jess Keeley-Carter Joins WMG As SVP Global Digital Marketing
Warner Music Group has named Jess Keeley-Carter as SVP of Global Digital Marketing, Recorded Music. Keeley-Carter was previously at Facebook, where she oversaw Label Partnerships for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She previously worked for eight years for Universal Music Groups, as Global Digital Business Manager based in the…
DJ Khaled Charged With Cryptocurrency Fraud
Rapper and producer DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather were each charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for not telling investors that they had been paid to promote an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for cryptocurrency startup Centra. These are the first charges filed for promoting ICOs, a new…