Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Earlier this week, DMN reported that Gwen Stefani had excluded her latest album from Spotify. Now, she has a number one album. Stefani released her album, ‘This Is What The Truth Feels Like,’ on March 18th. The album was released across a variety of platforms, but Spotify didn’t make the cut. The reason for the exclusion is […]
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SoundCloud has been too free for too long, according to some observers. Now that a deal with Sony Music Entertainment is in hand, SoundCloud appears to be rapidly accelerating its move towards a subscription (ie, paid) tier. In fact, SoundCloud’s much-anticipated subscription service may launch within a matter of weeks, not months. It’s unclear exactly when […]
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The annual Musexpo Los Angeles is only weeks away. The event will take place April 17th- 20th at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, with features from key influencers and music enthusiasts from around the world. The event will showcase representation from an array of music industry figures, including labels, publishers, radio, live entertainment platforms, booking agencies, law firms, digital […]
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Podcasting is growing at an exponential rate, and that includes music podcasts. But what are the biggest, most influential music podcasts in 2016? According to Apple, these are the music podcasts with the greatest number of followers. 1. KEXP, Song of the Day. What It Is: In-studio performances, unreleased recordings, and top picks from independent […]
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The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is insisting that Google reforms its ‘notice and take down’ procedure. The BPI claims that it has reported 200 million links to infringing content on Google since July 2011. The links were reported via Google’s ‘Notice And Take Down’ policy but were quickly replaced by other pirate links, often the same […]
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Marques Johnson, a hip hop artist who goes by the name of Andre Roxx, has now filed a defamation lawsuit against TMZ for improper identification. The defamation charge surrounds a TMZ article published in 2014, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The piece in question stated that a rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang Clan had been rushed to […]
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A proportional map of recorded music format revenues, using US-based tallies from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). CDs maintained a sizable chunk of recorded music sales in 2015, part of a sales map that now features a large number of competing formats. According to US-based, 2015 stats from the RIAA, CDs, subscription (paid) […]
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UK-based law firm Atkins Thomson Solicitors has now filed a claim against Michael Jackson’s estate for more than $200,000 in unpaid fees. The state claim, filed Monday in California, states that Atkins Thomson never received any money for the legal work that they carried out for Jackson in the two years leading up to his death. In […]
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Concert discovery app Bandsintown has joined forces with Ticketmaster to allow people to directly purchase tickets through the app. The partnership makes sense for both sides. For Bandsintown, the collaboration with Ticketmaster allows direct access to the largest concerts. Essentially, the partnership allows users of the app to access tickets for all Ticketmaster’s shows, which is a massive […]
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If you want big money, you go to big investors, right? Not if you’re 8tracks, which is raising big money from smaller investors. Last time we checked in with 8tracks in mid-2015, they were claiming profitability and proudly announcing a string of indie licensing deals. They also found a way to loosen their attachment to SoundCloud, quite the […]
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