Company is hiring for a Global Head of Latin Music Business in Miami
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Did Technology Bring About The Death Of Good Music?
After new research was released suggesting that millennials prefer golden oldies to contemporary pop, Stephen Carlisle did some digging to determine if this was in fact accurate and, if so, what role technology may have played in the "decline" of music’s quality. _____________________________ Guest post by Stephen Carlisle of NOVA…
Apple Says It Does Not Want to be an ‘Elitist’ Company as iPhone Prices Continue to Rise
Apple COO Jeff Williams also said analysts ‘don’t really understand the cost of what we do.’
TIDAL Launches $1 Million Emerging Artists Grant Program ‘TIDAL Unplugged’
TIDAL and benefactors Mark Lampert and Robert Nelsen today announced the launch of TIDAL Unplugged, a million dollar grant program for emerging artists. Funded by a donation from Lampert and Nelsen, TIDAL Unplugged will launch in Detroit in March. Local artists will can submit their music through TIDAL to receive…
Soundcharts Launches New Music Data Platform With Unlimited Team Access
Music analytics platform Soundcharts has launched a new version with new pricing. Under the plan, users can share data access with their entire team at no additional cost. Every plan comes with unlimited users and is based on the number of monitored artists, starting at €19 / $21.50 USD per…
Rumor: Apple AirPods 2, AirPower, New iPads to Arrive March 29
Word has it that Apple is planning to release its second-generation AirPods along with new iPads and the long-awaited AirPower wireless charging pad.
Streaming Music Revenue Up, But Per Song Rates May Have Dropped In 2018
In this piece, Bobby Owsinski breaks down some complex recent streaming data, which highlights the disparity between the royalty rates paid out by major streamers (with YouTube coming up particularly short) as well as the contextual challenge of drawing accurate information from these kinds of data sets. __________________________ Guest post…
Music Streaming Rates 2018: Per Stream Rates Drop and YouTube’s Value Gap Is Very Real
[UPDATED] 2018 saw music streaming come into its own as the dominant source of recording music revenue. But as streaming volumes swelled, the YouTube value gap and its pitifully small payout percentage became even more apparent. _________________________________ Guest post by David Lowery of The Trichordist Here we go again. To…
Apple’s HomePod accounts for just 6% of the installed smart speaker base in the US – report
Report published by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners
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Paid Streaming Will Surpass Free This Year [Survey]
Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and other paid music streaming services hare doing a better job of converting free users to paid, according to new figures from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). “Streaming has made it fashionable to pay for music again.” Already more males pay to stream music – 24.3%…