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Deezer will let you listen for free. But you might have to pay. Earlier this week, French streaming service Deezer entered treacherous American waters with a paid-only streaming music service. That sounded like a strategy that would save costs, especially since free-access users can quickly burn capital (just ask Spotify). Additionally, a paid-only approach is also […]
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SOCAN isn’t the sleepy Canadian rights society anymore… It’s official: SOCAN, the Canada-based collecting society, has acquired digital rights company Audiam. The acquisition is designed to maximize digital revenue for SOCAN members, and pushes the society further into the US. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed as of yet. For SOCAN, this is the […]
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Richard Branson says live concerts have become impersonal, crowded, and ‘soulless’. Here’s his solution. Billionaire Richard Branson, who started Virgin Megastores and Virgin Records, is now setting his sights on changing live concerts. In a blog post this morning, Branson sharply criticized music shows as being ‘soulless,’ while lacking that critical intimacy that fans want. “You know […]
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You have been struggling with hearing loss and you can’t listen to music from your favourite artists. Now there is hope, thanks to a new study reported by The Atlantic… A team of scientists have been studying hearing loss based on research carried out by Dr Albert Edge, and found a way to reverse hearing […]
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DMN zooms in on what Apple Music has been up to lately, and what this means for artists and fans… Healthy Subscriber Growth. Apple Music launched on June 30th, 2015. The streaming platform announced hitting 6.5 million subscribers on October 20th, 2015. It then jumped to 10 million subscribers by January 10th, 2016, and the streaming platform most […]
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Finally! It only took Twitter about 10 years, but they have finally opened up account verification to the non-elites. In the past, the only way to get a Twitter account verified was to know someone at Twitter. Seriously. I once asked a musician with the magical blue verified check mark next to his name how he […]
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Deezer’s got $100 million to launch in the US. That’s not enough. After toeing the waters for years, French streaming music service Deezer is finally taking the plunge into horrifying American waters. This morning, the company officially planted its flag in New York, and announced its US-based launch across iOS, Google Play, Windows and Deezer.com (guess […]
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There’s no stigma against ‘selling out’ anymore, but the blanket use of indie bands in the ad world is taking its toll regardless. Someone asked me if I liked the band The Heavy the other day. Yeah, I guess I like The Heavy, I thought, or at least I like their most popular song, “How […]
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When it comes to the most popular artist in every state, it’s lonely at the top. Drake is the most popular artist in a vast majority of US states, according to information released by Pandora. Pandora, which now boasts roughly 185 million users, is arguably one of the best places to figure out where artists […]
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Apple Music plans to significantly increase songwriter royalty rates. That could be a genius move. In a recent proposal to the US Copyright Royalty Board, Apple suggests that the royalty rate for publishers should be set at 9.1 cents per 100 streams of a song. Though an Apple Music official confirmed these reports, the filing […]
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