Category archives: Distrokid

REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

In this journey back through a busy seven days in the music business, we revisit why music’s superstars are suddenly getting streamed less, how Spotify is redesigning your music library, a look at how a recent fire in the Universal Music archives may have been much worse than previously thought,…

DistroKid Partners With Audible Magic to Manage Fraudulent Activity

DistroKid has signed a major deal to help indie artists. The digital distributor has inked a global partnership with Audible Magic. Using the content recognition company’s software dubbed RightsRxTM, DistroKid will now verify new songs and albums uploa…

Amazon and Roc Nation Score a Victory in Meek Mills Wiretapping Case

Amazon and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation have scored a major victory in court. Last September, Philadelphia attorney A. Charles Peruto Jr. filed a rather interesting wiretapping case against both Amazon and Roc Nation. The defense lawyer representing Philadelphia…

DistroKid Links With Audible Magic To Verify Music Authenticity, Launches DistroLock

DistroKid has joined a growing list of music distributors and services using Audible Magic to fight unauthorized content by verifying the authenticity of both tracks and artists before it is distributed. CD Baby and The Orchard, both of whom have been tagged by Spotify and Apple Music as preferred partners…

This Week In Music Commentary

On the commentary side of the music industry this week, we heard from YouTube’s CEO warning creators about the dangers of Article 13, remembered music philanthropist Paul Allen, and explored some the questions around Spotify’s investment of Distrokid. YouTube CEO Attacks Article 13 In Letter To Creators As ‘A Threat…

Spotify + DistroKid On Road To A Two Sided Marketplace

With news that Spotify had invested in DistroKid and offer it as a distribution conduit to other music services, came speculation as to the music streamer’s greater motives. MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan sees the move as part of Spotify’s strategy to work way up music’s value chain by "a) removing…

Spotify Announces DistroKid Investment, Integration

Spotify is strengthening ties to DistroKid with an investment and announcement of an integration that allows artists using Spotify For Artists’ new free upload service to then seamlessly distribute their music to other platforms through DistroKid. As part of this partnership, Spotify has also made "a passive minority investment" in…

Spotify acquires minority stake in DistroKid, enabling artists to upload to multiple services… from Spotify

Streaming service takes passive position in aggregator which works with 250,000 artists
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DistroKid Scores ‘Significant Investment’ From Silversmith

Indie music distributor DistroKid has received "a significant investment" from Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm. DistroKid currently serves 250,000 independent musicians with digital distribution, as well as, royalty collection and management. Todd MacLean and Sri Rao of Silversmith Capital will join the DistroKid board. Details of the…