Category archives: Music Tech

Max Martin’s Auddly Scores Two Major Partnerships In the ‘Data Supply Chain’

The messy state of metadata is getting cleaned up — at least a little bit. Talk to artists, songwriters, indie labels, and publishers on the ground, and metadata and resulting PRO nightmares are easy to find.  Which might explain why Max Martin — easil…

Sony Music Takes On Spotify, Launches Streaming Service In Japan ‘Powered By Napster’

[UPDATED] Sony Music will use Rhapsody’s "Powered By Napster" platform to launch the first high resolution streaming music service in Japan. The move by Sony Music Entertainment Japan makes Sony the first major label to directly challenge Spotify, Apple Music and others with their own music streaming service. Music will…

SoundCloud Names 2018 Top Tracks, Artists To Watch, More

SoundCloud has crunched the numbers and released its top artists, tracks, trends and more of 2018. For the second year, Two Friends released the top DJ setl, and “synthwave” and “phonk” were the most tagged genres. Stream the 2018 SoundCloud Top Tracks Playback playlist and 2019 Artists to Watch.

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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

As we check back in on all the happenings from inside the music business over the past seven days, we revisit the top lyric searches of 2018, why it is that we skip so many songs, indie music’s impressive market share, and much more. Top 20 Lyric Searches Of 2018…

TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

Our greatest hits of the week on Hypebot this time around covered the five genres which saw the most growth on Spotify in 2018, a look at the platform’s 2018 recap micro-site launches, Apples filing for a music business trademark, and more. These 5 Music Genres Grew The Most On…

Will Fans Unsubscribe If Artists Leave Major Streamers?

In a followup to his recent piece regarding user-centric royalties and the idea of an "ethical pool" solution to streaming royalty allocations, Chris Castle here raises the question of whether artists’ departure from major streaming services would cause fans to follow suit and ditch them as well. ____________________________ Guest post…

Apple Acquires Platoon Emerging Artists Marketing Platform

Apple has acquired U.K. based music creative services and artist development startup Platoon, according to multiple reports. The startup’s co founder, Denzyl Feigelson, is a long time consultant for Apple and produces its annual UK iTunes Festival. Platoon launched in 2016 under the moniker "as launchpad for fearless creatives." The…

PresskitTO Disappears Without Notice Leaving Many Musicians Without Promo

Digital press kit service presskit.to has gone offline without warning, leaving hundreds, if not thousands of artists and marketers without access to their promotional material. Presskit.to, which launched in 2012, has been offline for almost three weeks. The demise of the digital press kit service came without warning or any…