Just in case you didn’t feel like the music industry was a litigious enough space, the estate of 60s era pop star Ricky Nelson has open a whole new can of legal worms by filing a class action lawsuit against Sony Music over its alleged failure to properly report streaming…
Category archives: Digital Music
Why Basic Shows Frequently Aren’t Enough To Make An Impact
As the music industry continues to change the transformation is impacting not only the ways in which audiences consume recorded music, but also the way in which they experience live performances – and for many fans, the standard package just isn’t cutting it anymore. ___________________________ Guest post by Patrick McGuire…
Bittorrent Traffic Suddenly Rising In Traffic Share Thanks To Streaming Fragmentation
For a long time it looked as though the popularity of legal streaming services would be able to curb online piracy, but as streaming offerings continue to diversify, and more of the services continue to release their own original programming, the a la carte option of Bittorrent has seen a…
Symphonic Distribution Adds 3 Execs
Electronic and urban music distribution and label services company Symphonic Distribution is making moves to bolster their marketing team with three new senior hires. AJ Alvarez joins the company as Director of Client Marketing & Playlist Promotion, Teddy Tutson joins as Director of Video Strategy, and Jon Mizrachi joins as…
More To Spotify’s Artist Direct Upload Strategy Than Meets The Eye
In a recent surprise movie, Spotify announced that it will now give indie artists the option of uploading their music directly to the streaming service for free, rather than requiring artists to use a distributor. While this may simply seem like a blessing to artists, this new option is all…
UMG Partners With 7digital
UPDATE: The UK’s City AM reported that Universal Music Group has entered into an agreement with streaming and download tech provider 7digital to launch streaming, download and merchandise portals for its most popular artists. 7 Digital has now issued a clarification According to City AM 7digital will power direct to…
Attracting More Views On Your SoundCloud Releases
For musicians, growing a solid reputation on SoundCloud is key, as the platform provides opportunities to take their work to the next level, although the way in which they manage their account can often have as much of an impact on their success as the music itself. ________________________ Guest post…
Amazon Alexa Adds New Music Skills, TIDAL
Amazon unveiled a slew of new and improved Alexa voice controlled devices on Monday, and with them came new music related services, features and skills. Here’s a roundup of new Alexa music services and skills: New Music Service – TIDAL Later this year, global music streaming platform TIDAL will be…
eMusic Payment Problems Continue, More Labels Exit
More labels and distributors are pulling and keeping their music off the eMusic download store over late or non-payments. In July, we reported that Sony owned indie distributor The Orchard informed its labels that it was pulling all music down because they had "failed to receive payments." Music distributed by…
Amazon Music Making More Of Its Own Exclusive Recordings
Of late Amazon has been following in the steps of Spotify and dropping a series of exclusive recordings by noted artists like John Prine and Margo Price under the title "Produced By…", and although these recordings fall under the Amazon Originals banner, Amazon doesn’t actually own the rights to them….