Apple Music’s paying subscriber base has surpassed 36m worldwide – a figure which remains about half the size of Spotify’s equivalent premium audience.
Music Business Worldwide
Category archives: Music industry
L’industrie de la musique pas réconciliée avec YouTube
Les nouveaux accords avec Universal, Sony et Warner sous-estiment encore les redevances auxquelles les majors de la musique estiment avoir droit.
Les Echos
Avenged Sevenfold Is Boycotting the Grammys to Protest How Rock Is Being Treated
Did the Grammys actually misrepresent the Rock genre as Avenged Sevenfold claims? At this year’s Grammys, California heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold will compete against Metallica and the Foo Fighters for Best Rock Song. Nominated for ‘The Stage,’ …
Facebook Just Signed a Deal With the Largest Music Publisher In the World
Facebook’s music ambitions are rapidly taking shape, thanks to a pair of momentous deals. Late last year, the social network finalized a groundbreaking pact with Universal Music Group, which includes Universal Music Publishing Group.
Digital Music News
Spotify Is Said to Be Going Public in Early 2018
Spotify is finally ready to go public.
The New York Times
Zimbabwe: Is the Digital Platform Robbing Musicians?
I am standing in a long queue at the enquiries desk at one of the local banks. I have a problem with sending money to someone through online banking. I have asked for RTGS forms and they tell me that those are no longer in use because the bank is now p…
Not dead yet: Record executives fight for compact disc’s future
In ‘the year of streaming,’ those shiny little discs prove they still have life left in them.
CBC
Combien rapporte une écoute sur Deezer ?
Pas assez, estiment les artistes, qui n’hésitent pas à donner de la voix contre les plates-formes de streaming.
Les Echos
Inside Indie Artist Macy Todd’s Spotify Playlist Campaign [Cyber PR]
Getting your music on Spotify playlists is the new Holy Grail of music marketing. But making it happen – particularly for an indie D.I.Y. artist like Macy Todd – isn’t easy. Here Ariel Hyatt and her CyberPR team share their methodology and the results. ________________________________ Guest post by Ariel Hyatt…
Lil Pump Just Voided His Major Label Contract and Kept the $350k Advance
Lil Pump’s non-favorable contract with Warner Bros. Records is up. Lil Pump, an overnight rap sensation with his smash hit “Gucci Gang,” inked a non-favorable contract deal with Warner Bros. Records when he was underage. Now that the…