Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
As Spotify locks down another deal, expect the two-week Premium time window to come standard. Following their multi-year licensing deal with UMG, Spotify locked down another deal, this time with indie labels. Just as with UMG, however, expect Spotify to certain new independent content behind a two-week window. For a long time, Spotify couldn’t strike […]
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As Spotify locks down another deal, expect the two-week Premium time window to come standard. Following their multi-year licensing deal with UMG, Spotify locked down another deal, this time with indie labels. Just as with UMG, however, expect Spotify to certain new independent content behind a two-week window. For a long time, Spotify couldn’t strike […]
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Looks like Spotify pissed off the wrong artist. The following comes from Brett Newski, an artist who channeled his frustrations against Spotify into a creative outlet. Here’s why he wrote, ‘Fuck You Spotify’. “If piracy is George Bush, is Spotify Dick Cheney? We all have our opinions on streaming. Spotify is probably not an […]
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GEMA reaps the fruit of their settlement with YouTube. Back in 2009, YouTube stopped showing music videos in Germany after their deal with GEMA came to a close. The German performance rights organization (PRO) wanted to raise their per-streaming fee to 12 euro cents per streamed video. Following seven long arduous years, YouTube finally reached […]
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Spotify is great for superstars like Drake and Ed Sheeran. But according to Taylor Swift’s manager Scott Borchetta, the numbers are tricky — and it’s not trickling down for most artists. Taylor Swift is notorious for bashing Spotify. Aside from withholding her music from the platform, Swift has openly blasted the company’s business model as a […]
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If paid numbers are so high, and ad-supported so low, should streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music do away with the free model? Would placing limitations help? Across all media types, consumer habits have shifted. Instead of owning media, consumers have consistently shown that they prefer to stream their favorite content. For example, more […]
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After a decade of brutal declines, Latin sales are steadily on the rise in the US. Luis Fonsi’s ‘Despacito’ featuring Daddy Yankee recently attained diamond status under the RIAA’s Latin program. And just last month, Shakira’s Zootopia track ‘Try Everything’ earned her platinum status in the United States. Do these singles, along with recent Latin artist […]
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After over a year of feedback, Spotify launches a stronger hub for artists. In 2015, Spotify launched a data dashboard dubbed Fan Insights. Charlie Hellman, VP of Product, said that the dashboard was intended as “a self-serve way [for] artists and their teams to really understand what was going on with their audiences on Spotify.” […]
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Will Bitcoin-based Token.FM truly hit, or will it end up as just another failed streamer in the music industry? Every once in a while, someone has a fresh, new idea to address “existing issues” in the music industry. Specifically, these ideas attempt to get artists paid faster. However, within three years, most of these ideas […]
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7-Eleven will now choose what time to appear on your Spotify Sponsored Playlist. Just last month, Spotify announced that they reached the 50 million paid subscriber milestone. At the same time, it also said that the service now counts with over 100 million subscribers. This means over half of Spotify’s total userbase streams their favorite […]
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