Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Is this the good news that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has been waiting for? Is this enough? Spotify’s UK company seems to be turning things around for the company. In new filing at UK trading fund Companies House, Spotify Ltd in the UK posted £187.2 million, or $275.2 million, in total revenues for 2015. This […]
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Signing to a major label used to be the only way to succeed. Now, in a world dominated by streaming music, it can cost an artist dearly. Perhaps the number one question we get from artists is the following: ‘what do streaming services actually pay?’ At first, we had no idea, and none of the […]
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For years, SoundCloud has been the largest dedicated music website in the world. Now, it’s getting outranked not just by a fast-growing class of ‘YouTube to MP3’ converters, starting with youtube-mp3.org. When it comes to dedicated music websites, SoundCloud has long been the biggest elephant. Only YouTube was bigger, but now, a class of YouTube […]
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Why is Netflix making money when Spotify isn’t yet profitable? It’s a frustrating experience when you open up Netflix and can’t find the movie you’re looking to watch. It’s even more frustrating when you realize that they’re in the Top 250 of IMDB. Two years ago, a Reddit user clayton_frisbie decided to do his own […]
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Amazon Music Unlimited might actually lead the way in the U.S. music streaming market. Yesterday, the sudden announcement of Amazon Music Unlimited pretty much took everyone by storm. There were news reports about it on almost every top news site. We also covered the announcement here at Digital Music News. Even our very own Editor-in-Chief […]
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Spotify isn’t the greatest streaming music service anymore. And Apple Music has even more work to do. That’s right: Amazon Music completely crushes BOTH of them, COMBINED. I use Spotify Premium every single day. On two Macs, an iPhone, and sometimes a tablet. I tried Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, and even YouTube Red. Like a […]
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Spotify isn’t the greatest streaming music service anymore. And Apple Music has even more work to do. That’s right: Amazon Music completely crushes BOTH of them, COMBINED. I use Spotify Premium every single day. On two Macs, an iPhone, and sometimes a tablet. I tried Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, and even YouTube Red. Like a […]
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The Beatles. Ringo Starr. John Lennon. George Harrison Paul McCartney. Wait a minute, who? This is sure to make most of feel really, really old. According to a news article by CBS Sports, NBA star DeMarcus Cousins has no idea who Paul McCartney is. He was asked last week if he had attended a Paul […]
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YouTube buys out FameBit. Who’s next? In a surprise move, YouTube parent company Google has bought out online marketplace FameBit. FameBit specializes in connecting YouTubers with top-name brands that are interested in advertising their products and services. The news was posted yesterday on YouTube’s blog. This move comes as YouTube is attempting to strengthen its […]
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YouTube buys out FameBit. Who’s next? In a surprise move, YouTube parent company Google has bought out online marketplace FameBit. FameBit specializes in connecting YouTubers with top-name brands that are interested in advertising their products and services. The news was posted yesterday on YouTube’s blog. This move comes as YouTube is attempting to strengthen its […]
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