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According to a report by Bloomberg, Spotify’s Chief Executive Daniel Ek plans to make the streaming service public in the second half of 2017. Just before it’s tenth birthday, Spotify announced raising $1 billion in convertible debt from investors who valued the company at $8 billion. This funding round was pegged to an IPO which was […]
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Cube says Clinton planted poisonous rhetoric in the 90s, with repercussions still being felt. Ice Cube, one of the first rappers to speak out against police brutality, is pinning some of the blame for the current crisis on Hillary Clinton. The rapper pointed to 1990s-era efforts to step up police enforcement and combat urban gangs, with […]
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The latest executive shuffles across the music industry… Kobalt has hired Tom Sansone as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Kobalt, Sansone worked at Gilt for over 7 years. Throughout his time at Gilt, Sansone worked in a few roles – He started as the Chief Financial Officer & Head of Corporate Development which he did for seven […]
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The latest executive shuffles across the music industry… Kobalt has hired Tom Sansone as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Kobalt, Sansone worked at Gilt for over 7 years. Throughout his time at Gilt, Sansone worked in a few roles – He started as the Chief Financial Officer & Head of Corporate Development which he did for seven […]
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Ice Cube, one of the founding members of N.W.A, most recently performed the song on July 9th. Ice Cube is now vowing to continue performing ‘F—k the Police,’ despite recent killings of law enforcement officers in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Michigan, and Kansas City. The issue came up after Cube performed the song on July 9th at […]
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Finally! It only took Twitter about 10 years, but they have finally opened up account verification to the non-elites. In the past, the only way to get a Twitter account verified was to know someone at Twitter. Seriously. I once asked a musician with the magical blue verified check mark next to his name how he […]
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Deezer launches in the US, stiffening competition in the music streaming market. The French music streaming service, Deezer has finally launched in the US, increasing competition in the already crowded music streaming market. The service was launched today at a cost of $10 a month after a 30-day free trial. The interesting thing though, is that […]
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The latest Apple Music exclusive is coming from… A week ago, Rapper Travis Scott posted an Instagram picture of himself and Apple Music’s Head of Content, Larry Jackson. The image was captioned ‘done deal’, which quickly led to speculation of an Apple Music exclusive. These reports have now been confirmed by Travis Scott. In a […]
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Apple Music brings you iTunes match… According to The Loop, Apple is now using iTunes Match audio fingerprint for its streaming service. The new version is meant to be a more accurate way to match songs than the previous metadata matching system that was used. The reports suggest that the iTunes Match that is newly available […]
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Drake has done it yet again… Drake’s Views album has claimed the number one spot on the Billboard 200 chart for ten non-consecutive week, the third-best run for a hip-hop release. For the first nine week from release, the album dominated the top spot on the charts, until last week, when Blink 182 knocked Views from the top of the US […]
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