Author archives: Bruce Houghton

Spotify For Artists App Gets A Makeover, Real-Time Stats

Spotify for Artists is releasing a revamped app for both iOS and Android today. The new app rolling out this week includes a refreshed design, a new “home” tab with access to resources, personalized artists milestone updates and expanded real-time stats for both current listeners and new releases. Spotify For…

5 Big Takeaways From IFPI’s Music Listening Report 2019

IFPI, the global recorded music trade organization, today released its Music Listening 2019 report, which surveys how music consumers 16-64 engage with recorded music across 21 countries. Here are 5 big takeaways. The IFPI Music Listening report has been published in previous years under the title IFPI Music Consumer Insight…

Apple Music Adds ‘Lyrics to Live By’ Video Series As iOS 13 Real Time Lyrics Launches

Apple Music has debuted a “Lyrics to Live By” video series as part of its launch of a real-time lyrics feature in iOS 13 last week. The new video series is designed to “celebrate this new frontier in the listening experience.” Just launched iOS 13 includes real-time lyrics with scrolling…

Musicians: Who Has Access To All Your Accounts? Do You?

It’s time to get control and access to everything related to your career, remind Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on a new Music Biz Weekly podcast. They share a real story of an ex-manager who deleted a band’s CD Baby account and distribution for their recent album. This happened because…

Stationhead Adds Recording To Free Radio Station Creation App, Driving More Paid Music Streams

Stationhead, the social radio station creation app has added the ability to record shows with music drawn directly from Spotify and Apple Music. The app’s streaming integration eliminates the need for costly licensing while ensuring rightsholders are properly compensated, as well as empowering artists and podcasters to create content that…

YouTube Music Adds ‘Discover Mix’ Playlist

YouTube Music has added an algorithm delivered playlist called "Discover Mix" similar to Spotify’s "Discover Weekly" which helps users discover new songs and artists based on previous listening habits. YouTube Music’s Discover Mix playlist updates every Wednesday and contains 49 songs. A retro neon logo is much like YouTube Music…

Instrumental, Corite Join For Global New Artist Discovery

Stockholm based Corite and London-based artificial intelligence-driven talent discovery platform Instrumental have announced a global collaboration to identify emerging musicians on the verge of success on Corite’s recently-launched fan funding service. Founded by industry veterans and Universal Music Group alumni Mathias Tengblad and Emil Angervall (pictured above), Corite allows fans…

BUSINESS OF INDIE: Independents Join Climate Protest • Kobalt Hires • Music Row N.B.T. • Tireless Pup • More

In a new edition of the Business Of Indie, Independents join global climate protests, Kobalt makes some key hires, Music Row launches the N.B.T. directory. a look at the punk band Pup and much more. Like Hypebot’s More News section, The Business Of Indie is nestled under its own Indie…