Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
As Spotify locks down another deal, expect the two-week Premium time window to come standard. Following their multi-year licensing deal with UMG, Spotify locked down another deal, this time with indie labels. Just as with UMG, however, expect Spotify to certain new independent content behind a two-week window. For a long time, Spotify couldn’t strike […]
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As Spotify locks down another deal, expect the two-week Premium time window to come standard. Following their multi-year licensing deal with UMG, Spotify locked down another deal, this time with indie labels. Just as with UMG, however, expect Spotify to certain new independent content behind a two-week window. For a long time, Spotify couldn’t strike […]
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As Spotify locks down another deal, expect the two-week Premium time window to come standard. Following their multi-year licensing deal with UMG, Spotify locked down another deal, this time with indie labels. Just as with UMG, however, expect Spotify to certain new independent content behind a two-week window. For a long time, Spotify couldn’t strike […]
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Looks like Spotify pissed off the wrong artist. The following comes from Brett Newski, an artist who channeled his frustrations against Spotify into a creative outlet. Here’s why he wrote, ‘Fuck You Spotify’. “If piracy is George Bush, is Spotify Dick Cheney? We all have our opinions on streaming. Spotify is probably not an […]
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Like Han Solo, Chance the Rapper believes it’s better to shoot first (or in this case, sue first) and ask questions later. Ahead of his upcoming tour, Chance the Rapper and CTR Touring have filed a federal lawsuit against possible bootleggers. A common tactic in the music industry, the lawsuit names “John Does,” “Jane Does,” […]
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GEMA reaps the fruit of their settlement with YouTube. Back in 2009, YouTube stopped showing music videos in Germany after their deal with GEMA came to a close. The German performance rights organization (PRO) wanted to raise their per-streaming fee to 12 euro cents per streamed video. Following seven long arduous years, YouTube finally reached […]
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Spotify is great for superstars like Drake and Ed Sheeran. But according to Taylor Swift’s manager Scott Borchetta, the numbers are tricky — and it’s not trickling down for most artists. Taylor Swift is notorious for bashing Spotify. Aside from withholding her music from the platform, Swift has openly blasted the company’s business model as a […]
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After a decade of brutal declines, Latin sales are steadily on the rise in the US. Luis Fonsi’s ‘Despacito’ featuring Daddy Yankee recently attained diamond status under the RIAA’s Latin program. And just last month, Shakira’s Zootopia track ‘Try Everything’ earned her platinum status in the United States. Do these singles, along with recent Latin artist […]
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This past Friday I moderated the How To Make It in the New Music Business panel at the ASCAP Expo. One of the panelists was the co-founder of LaFamos PR and Branding, Hunter Scott. He is one of the few publicists out there who won’t take your money if he doesn’t think he can help […]
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At Canadian Music Week? Let’s connect. As promised, Digital Music News is covering Canadian Music Week again this year. And once again, we’re seeing a pretty serious industry crowd. We’ve written about this conference before, and pegged it as a serious meeting place ahead. Case in point: 2017, which has drawn the likes of Universal […]
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