Grime, a popular musical genre that did not exist prior to 2002, is now an official category on Spotify. The addition of Grime makes it easier for fans of the genre to find playlists and music on the streamer. The announcement came in two tweets from Senior Spotify Programmer Austin…
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Recorded Music Industry Grew 12.5% In 2017 As Streaming Soared and R&B/Hip-Hop Surpassed Rock
Nielsen Music’s 2017 U.S. Year-End Report confirms continued growth in recorded music driven by streaming. Total volume was up 12.5% over 2016, fueled by a 59% increase in on-demand audio streams compared to last year. For the first time, R&B/Hip-Hop surpassed Rock to become the largest genre in terms of…
Michael Schneider, Hard 8 Management & Folsom Records [INTERVIEW]
In this interview, Hard 8 Management and Folsom Records’ Michael Schneider sat down to talk about his work, the importance of technological innovation in marketing, and the value of messenger bots in marketing. ______________________________ Guest post by Veselina Gerova of The Message Behind The Artist is a Q&A style interview…
BuzzAngle Year End Music Report 2017: It’s All About Streaming
Music data firm BuzzAngle Music has some good news for the recorded music industry, unless one loves old-fashioned purchasing habits. Album and song sales dwindled in 2017, dropping 14.6% and 23.2% respectively, with physical sales declining only 7%percent, according to BuzzAngle. Audio stream consumption leaped 50.3 percent to 377 billion…
How Cuesta Loeb Signed With Indie Fierce Panda Records
In this interview, dream pop artist Cuesta Loeb discusses strategic methods for promoting your music, the value of having ‘a plan’, how it was that she became signed to Fierce Panda, and where she’s headed next. _______________________________ Guest post from the ReverbNation Blog Hailing from NYC, multi-instrumentalist Cuesta Loeb comes…
Indie Artists Score Holiday Hits On Pandora
Holiday music listening netted a surprising boost for indie musicians. Even though most are not household names, independent artists have some of the most popular holiday music on Pandora. ___________________________________ By Glenn Peoples, Music Insights and Analytics at Pandora from Medium Holiday music was Pandora’s top genre leading up to…
Bandcamp Shares Impressive and Strange 2017 Stats
In a year end post filled with the usual irreverence and a deep-in-its-DNA love of music, Bandcamp Engineer Ben Walker shared impressive and unusual 2017 stats for the popular indie platform. ________________________________ 2017 on Bandcamp 500 bands set up a Bandcamp page every day 36,000 bands and labels used their…
Most Memorable Album Covers Of 2017
Although some may album art is a dead medium, it appears 2017 didn’t get the memo. Here David Deal looks at some of the most memorable album covers to be released in 2017, and what the artists were trying to communicate with them. ______________________ Guest post by David Deal of…
20 Most Popular Vinyl Colors Of 2017 [ DISCOGS ]
Music database and vinyl hub Discogs shares a data-driven list of the 20 Most Collected vinyl color variants released in 2017. Beginning with Radiohead’s 3xLP blue opaque variation of the ‘OKNOTOK’ reissue of ‘OK Computer’ and counting down to the Father John Misty Sub Pop release ‘Pure Comedy’ in aluminum…
Using Intelligent URLs And Landing Pages For Your Releases
Linkfire co-founder Jeppe Faurfelt joins Music Biz Weekly podcast co-host Jay Gilbert to the discuss essential and often overlooked marketing tool intelligent URLs and the use of special landing pages for all of your releases. _____________________________________ MORE @ LINKFIRE.COM