The Americana Music Association has named nominees for its 18th annual Americana Honors & Awards. Women dominated the 2019 nods with Brandi Carlisle Carlile, Rhiannon Giddens, Kacey Musgraves and Mavis Staples among the nominated. The Americana nominations stand in sharp contrast to their counterparts in main stream country where women…
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Tencent Music Reports Subscriber, Revenue Growth Amid Management Shakeup
Tencent Music announced that co-president Guomin Xie has abruptly resigned. The dominate music streamer in China also reported that monthly actives increased 4.6% from 625 million in Q1 2018 to 654 million in Q1 2019. Paid monthly actives also increased by an impressive 27.4% to 28.4 million in Q1 2019….
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Spotify ‘Storyline’ Let’s Artists Tell Stories Behind Their Songs Instagram Style
Spotify is widely testing its own version of Instagram Stories for musicians and songwriters. "Storyline" provides curated commentary about each song running slideshow-style as the song plays Spotify Tests ‘Storyline’ – a Snapchat-Style Stories Feature Offering Additional Artist Content https://t.co/z7gwyGF1eW by @waxeditorial pic.twitter.com/f4fNHyltJp — MacRumors.com (@MacRumors) May 14, 2019 Currently…
SoundCloud Adds Pioneer DJ Integration
SoundCloud has launched its latest DJ software integration with Pioneer DJ. Through its We DJ app, SoundCloud users can instantly stream and mix SoundCloud’s catalog of 200 million tracks from 20 million creators. A SoundCloud Go+ premium consumer subscription is needed. Pioneer DJ joins DJ software integrations with Serato, Virtual…
BUSINESS OF INDIE: Why Downtown Bought CD Baby • Vinyl vs Mother Earth • Canada’s Indie Awards • More
In this week’s edition of the Business Of Indie, Downtown music’s CEO speaks out on why they acquired CD Baby, confronting the environmental impacts of vinyl records, Canada’s 2019 Indie Music Award winners and more. Like Hypebot’s More News section, The Business Of Indie is nestled under its own Indie…
Maren Morris Warns Streamers About Bro-Heavy Playlists
Marren Morris has found country music stardom with big does of help from Spotify, Apple Music and other music streamers. Her album ‘Girl’ notched 24 million streams in the US on the week of its release. But her biggest fear is the music streaming become too much like country radio….
King Crimson Shades Spotify With Apple Music Exclusive
King Crimson, one of the last major streaming holdouts, has finally made its entire catalog available. In an apparent dis to market leader Spotify, the classic rockers has made all 13 albums available only on Apple Music. Pictured is the cover of the band’s "In the Court of the Crimson…
Music Biz Association Chairman Resigns Abruptly Following Annual Conference
The chairman of the Music Biz Association has abruptly resigned after joking on stage about women artists who performed at the trade group’s annual Music Biz conference held in Nashville May 5-8. Following a Country Music Association presentation at the conference showcasing three female artists – Kassi Ashton, Cassadee Pope…
Soundstripe Raises $4M For Video Music Licensing
Nashville music tech startup Soundstripe has closed a $4 million Series A financing round led by Vocap Investment Partners. Soundstrip offers subscription based royalty-free music micro-licences to YouTubers, advertisers and other video creators. The startup reports triple digit year-over-year growth for the past three years, issuing 2 million “micro-licenses” since…