After selling just 100 vinyl records, indie artists can make the same amount they would earn from 2.5 million YouTube views or 368,000 Spotify streams. Over at the Making Vinyl Conference two months ago, experts agreed that the rise of streaming music …
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Post-Brexit Immigration Policy: Foreign Musicians Could be Required to Earn a £30,000 Salary
The British music industry isn’t exactly happy with the UK government over Brexit. The British music industry has lashed out over a newly published white paper outlining the country’s plans for a new post-Brexit immigration policy. According to the Gov…
Thanks to Streaming, WMG Posts $4 Billion in Revenue for 2018
Streaming music revenue continues to increase Warner Music Group’s bottom line. Warner Music Group (WMG) has published its results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended September 30th, 2018. For the first time in its fifteen-year history, t…
Jay-Z Files an Appeal and Requests Multiple Subpeonas in Parlux Fragrances Case
The subpoenas may reveal who’s to blame for Gold Jay Z’s failure – Shawn Carter or Parlux Fragrances. Six years ago, Parlux Fragances entered into a deal with Jay-Z – real name Shawn Carter – to produce a new men’s fragrance line: Gold Jay Z. The fragr…
What Spotify Paid One Artist in 2018
Zoe Keating’s Spotify payouts prove one thing – you can’t make a living off streaming music. Earlier this year, Canadian award-winning cellist and composer Zoe Keating shared her Spotify payouts with Digital Music News. Using RouteNote as her distribut…
Global Recorded Music Revenue Reportedly Set to Reach $18.9 Billion
Thanks to streaming, expect the music industry to experience strong and steady growth. According to a new report, global recorded music revenue will likely hit $18.9 billion at the end of this year. That’s based on an analysis of the first three quarte…
A New Report Reveals Facebook Allowed Spotify and Netflix to See Your Private Messages
Just what exactly did Spotify and Netflix see in your Facebook account? Facebook isn’t exactly well known for keeping users’ data to itself. Several years ago, a relatively unknown London political consulting firm accessed data for about 50 million Fac…
The Latest Music Industry Jobs: Centtrip Music, PRS, WCM, Sun & Fun, iHeartMedia, More…
Centtrip Music boosts its Senior Management team. Simon Liddell will now serve as Director of Music and Entertainment at Centtrip Music, the music industry specialist division of Centtrip, a treasury and international payments operations company. He p…
Apple Officially Removes All Ads on Shazam
Apple celebrates its Shazam acquisition by removing all ads from the music identification app. Late last year, Apple made a relatively expensive purchase. In a bid to build up its streaming music service, the Cupertino company acquired Shazam for $400 …
Acquiring Samuel French, Concord Music Unveils Concord Theatricals
Concord Music has now opened a new company aimed at the theatre industry. Several months ago, Concord Music confirmed its acquisition of Independiente Records. The London-based indie label had had a relatively successful history. First opened in 1997,…