Mariah Carey’s 1994 hit just beat out XXXTentacion and Drake on Spotify. But, was it really worth it? According to Billboard, Mariah Carey’s hit, ‘All I Want For You,’ has emerged as one of the highest-charting Hot 100 hits in 60 years. The 1994 song …
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What Streaming Music Services Pay (Updated for 2019)
Find out how much you’ll earn from the most popular streaming music services – Pandora, Napster, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and more. Early last year, Digital Music News published its streaming royalty payouts list. Thanks to information from third-…
European Union Aims to Implement Forced Content Quotas on Streaming Services by the End of 2019
Just how exactly will the European Union’s content quota affect streaming music services later on? Several months ago, APRA AMCOS, a copyright collective representing Australian and New Zealander composers, lyricists, and musicians, called on lawmakers…
Was Spotify’s Direct Offering Really So Brilliant? SPOT Shares Slip to $104 as $17 Billion In Market Cap Goes Poof
Spotify’s non-traditional ‘direct offering’ was once lauded as genius. Now, it’s complicated. Spotify’s ‘non-IPO IPO’ bucked one of Wall Street’s most cherished traditions, and minted billionaires overnight. And as Spotify’s shares soared towards $200…
Hackers Leak Old Beyoncé and SZA Tracks on Spotify and Apple Music
How exactly did hackers upload Beyoncé and SZA’s past works on Spotify and Apple Music? Yesterday, and for a few hours, hackers uploaded what they called Beyoncé and SZA’s newest albums. One project, titled Have Your Way, featured 10 tracks under the n…
Wixen Music Publishing Settles Its Monster $1.6 Billion Lawsuit Against Spotify
A year-long lawsuit with estimated damages of $1.6 billion has now been settled. Last year, Digital Music News broke the news that Wixen Music Publishing had filed a massive, $1.6 billion-plus lawsuit against Spotify. Interestingly, the lawsuit was …
What Spotify Paid One Artist in 2018
Zoe Keating’s Spotify payouts prove one thing – you can’t make a living off streaming music. Earlier this year, Canadian award-winning cellist and composer Zoe Keating shared her Spotify payouts with Digital Music News. Using RouteNote as her distribut…
Spotify Slumps to Another All-Time Low of $115.86 — Is $99 Next?
Spotify — like most stocks on Wall Street — suffered another substantial drop on Wednesday. But is $200 still a realistic target? Those weathering past Wall Street bubbles have seen this story before. But is Spotify spectacularly crashing to Earth, o…
Spotify’s Stock Crashes Below $120 for the First Time Ever — $14.2 Billion In Market Cap Lost In 5 Months
Spotify’s once-searing stock is now staring at sub-$100 valuations — though analysts are still saying ‘Buy’. Shares of Spotify (SPOT) crashed to another all-time low in Tuesday trading, with a sub-$120 valuation briefly brushed. By the Wall Street bel…
Apple Music Is Expanding Into Nashville — And Revitalizing an Old Sock Factory In the Process
Apple Music is officially expanding into Nashville with a new lease on an old sock factory just south of downtown. Apple has just signed a lease for the May Hosiery factory in Wedgewood-Houston, a former industrial area under ongoing renovation. Apple…