Labels, publishers and artists may soon have the option of receiving streaming royalties in cryptocurrency, as Spotify is reportedly one of the early backers of Facebook’s cryptocurrency initiative. Cryptocurrency could solve many of the issues that a company like Spotify has when paying tens of thousands of rights holders in…
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Kickstarter Cancels Drip XOXO Artist Subscription Project: Serving Small Creators Is Unsustainable
XOXO, the Kickstarter backed successor the Drip artist and label subscription platform is shutting down before it launches. "Ultimately, we couldn’t find a way to make the business viable," the XOXO team wrote announcing the closure. Kickstarter acquired Drip in March of 2016 and experimented with several iterations of the…
How You Can Become A Bandsintown Big Break Artist
As part of an ambitious fan data-driven emerging artist program, Bandsintown is identifying artists who have seen recent rapid growth and launching campaigns to give them maximum exposure. Here is a look at how the process works, and how you can become a Big Break Artist. ___________________________ Guest post from…
5 Ways Fans Can Help Music Chart
Getting your music to rank on one of the Billboard charts can often be the big break that helps kick an artists career up to the next level, and if you have a single or new album headed for release, there are a few things your fans can do for…
This Week In Music Commentary
This week, commentators from inside the music industry weighed in on how to increase you chance of getting lucky in the music biz, why consumers shouldn’t be worried about Bandwear (even after the PlegeMusic debacle), whether or not AI created music should be protected by copyright, and more! Luck Surface…
Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. and Indie Music
This week, our tips and advice for those music industry do-it-yourselfers out there covered how to start a grassroots tour, the best way to win over a lame crowd, a new feature allowing users to add music to their Instagram stories, and much, much more! Berklee Online Adds Grassroots Touring…
Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: Grassroots Touring • Nick Cave • Music + Student Success • More
This week on MusicThinkTank, contributors shared articles on a new grassroots touring course, Nick Cave’s primary obstacles to creative progress, the effect music can have on student success, and more. MusicThinkTank | Berklee Online Adds Grassroots Touring Course Will Marshall| Nick Cave’s 9 Primary Bedevilments Of Creativity Joe McLean| The…
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,…
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
Topping the charts to become Hypebot’s most-read articles this week, we had pieces exploring the new Instagram feature allowing users to add lyrics to their stories, the exit of Spotify exec Shane Tobin from Sofar Sounds, how indie stores are suffering as a result of major label distribution, and more!…
Spotify Takes Aim At Radio with ‘Your Daily Drive’ [Mark Mulligan of MIDiA]
[UPDATED] MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan has been warning for more than a year that radio is streaming’s next frontier; and with this week’s release of the personalized music + news playlist "Your Daily Drive," Spotify took a giant step towards making his prediction a reality. _______________________________________ By Mark Mulligan of…