Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Back in 2014, the Southern Poverty Law Center published a list of white supremacist hate bands. A majority of those groups remain on Spotify today. These bands were first identified in a relatively benign period. That is, several years ago, when the South Poverty Law Center (SPLC) discovered that white power music was finding a […]
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It was a rollercoaster week that almost plunged SoundCloud into bankruptcy. Now, the company’s founder and fired CEO, Alexander Ljung, has issued an official statement following a last-minute bailout. Over the weekend, Ljung issued this memo to employees and loyal followers. Exciting news and the future of SoundCloud Hey everyone, Recently you heard me say […]
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SoundCloud’s investors just approved a life-saving $170 million emergency fund. Here are all the details. SoundCloud just bought a few more months of life. But existing CEO Alex Ljung will no longer be running the show. According to details shared by the company with Digital Music News, the emergency funding was given the green light […]
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1. Licensing. If you want major artists from major labels, be prepared to pay multi-millions of dollars for it. And it may take years to finalize those deals (just ask Spotify). If you don’t have to give away a percentage of your company, I’d like to meet your attorney. This is how music startups die, […]
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Show business is unlikely to ever be a way to get rich quick but technology is making it easier to get known and build an audience.
…from Forbes’ latest annual list of highest paid DJs. Here’s the tally for 2017. 1. Calvin Harris ($48.5 million) 2. Tiësto ($39 million) 3. The Chainsmokers ($38 million) 4. Skrillex ($30 million) 5. Steve Aoki ($29.5 million) 6. Diplo ($28.5 million) 7. David Guetta ($25 million) 8. Marshmello ($21 million) 9. Martin Garrix ($19.5 million) […]
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Who says Spotify doesn’t pay? Warner Music Group is now one of the biggest beneficiaries of a streaming kaboom. It was a dump-off deal from a financially-strapped media conglomerate. In 2004, Time Warner dropped its failing music label for $2.4 billion. That was the start of an underwhelming decade for Warner Music Group that racked […]
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Was MTV purposely sidelining black artists in the 1980s? That all depends on who you talk to. Music Television (MTV) started ‘disrupting’ before that was a thing. The edgy, groundbreaking channel forever transformed music into a multimedia experience. And as its importance grew, so did visually-savvy artists like Madonna, Duran Duran, David Bowie, and Peter […]
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Latin America showed the highest increase for any region internationally.
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Spotify was recently hit with a lawsuit for $345 million plus after its failure to fork over cash on mechanical licenses for the Bluewater Music Services Corp. This is, however, by no means the first time Spotify has been hit with such a suit.
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