Latest Industry: Troy Carter, Sony Music, Spotify, Apple Music, Concord Music, U2, The BBC, More…

Will Troy Carter leave Spotify? Following the company’s decision to stop promoting music from R. Kelly and XXXTentacion, multiple sources have told Variety that Troy Carter may exit Spotify.  He has reportedly pushed back against the company…

Latest Industry: Cisco, YouTube, Warner, Metallica, Vivendi, Prince, Apple Music, Pandora, TIDAL, More…

Cisco pulls ads from YouTube. Over a fear of sensitive content appearing right after its ads, Cisco has pulled all of its online ads from YouTube.  Taking a veiled swipe at the video platform’s past controversies over sensitive content, Cisc…

Latest Industry: Live Nation, Spotify, Latin Music, YouTube, Pandora, Gibson, Shazam, Prince, Distrokid, More…

Get your $20 concert tickets while they last. Live Nation has announced that ‘National Concert Week’ will take place April 30th through May 8th.  The promoter will offer exclusive $20 all-in tickets for music fans to celebrate the kick…

J Cole breaks both Apple Music and Spotify’s day one stream record in the US… with some surprising numbers

Spotify obtains 36.7m US streams from KOD on day one. Apple Music gets 64.5m.
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Latest Industry: UMG’s IPO, A$CAP, Festival Plastic Ban, Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music, Amazon, More…

Vivendi isn’t ‘pulling a Sony’ — but UMG might be going public. Vivendi CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine stated that his group is a “strategic partner of Spotify.” He clarified that Vivendi has no intentions of selling…

I’m an Award-Winning Cellist and Composer. Want to See My Royalties?

So, how much does Zoe Keating make from streaming? Every now and then, Digital Music News covers what real artists make from streaming platforms. One artist last year, for example, made just €403.27, or $470.47, on Spotify from 122,364 total play…

Latest Industry: Live Nation, SoundCloud, Apple Music, Amazon Alexa, YouTube, Guitar Center

A neural network on what you love to listen to. Music Audience Exchange (MAX) has unveiled its Artist Matching Engine.  The platform’s data model uses neural networks to map music tastes onto the demographic, psychographic, geographic and be…