In this rewind back through seven busy days of music industry news, we revisit a major scandal at the copyright office regarding a ‘fake budget’ line item, the major sales boosts given to ACM performers, Spotify’s potential nixing of its IPO, and much, much more. Major Scandal At The Copyright…
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Jay Z’s Catalog Pulled From Spotify, Apple Music [UPDATED]
UPDATE: Jay Z’s solo catalog has been pulled from Spotify and Apple Music, but remains available on Tidal, which he founded and controls. Jay Z had pulled his debut album "Reasonable Doubt" from all streaming services except for Tidal when he launched the service. Last year, his Blueprint series was…
TakeLessons Acquires Competitor Chromatik
TakeLessons has acquired Chromatik, a digital sheet music and music education platform. Details of the deal were not announced, but Chromatik had raised $7.7 million from Rustic Canyon Partners, Learn Capital, Plus Capital and others. Chromatik was founded in 2010 and powers millions of musicians playing, learning and sharing music….
LyricFind and Turning Your Lyrics Into A Revenue Stream [Music Biz Weekly Podcast]
This week on Hypebot’s Music Biz Weekly podcast, hosts Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert are joined Darryl Ballantyne, the CEO of LyricFind. He shares how to make lyrics a revenue stream and that they are properly licensed. _____________________________ LyricFind created a new revenue stream for songwriters and rights holders by…
3 Great Services Finding Royalty Money In Unusual Places
Although there is a high volume of derivative music content online in the form of things like covers and remixes, it can often be difficult for artists to capitalize on the royalties from such things, something these three services are looking to fix. _____________________ Guest post by Ta’Rikah Jones on…
ASCAP, SACEM, PRS Form IBM-Backed Blockchain Music Initiative To Improve Royalty Tracking
2017 is the year that Blockchain will become more of a tool than a theory. The technology, which allows seamless tracking of digital use has been called the savior of an industry where tractions yield only a fraction of a penny. Now, three of the world’s biggest collection societies have…
Support Copyright Office Legislation And Call Congress
Here Chris Castle urges readers to support new bipartisan legislation making the Librarian of Congress a presidential appointment, as well as bringing about several other badly needed fixes to the position. ______________________ Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy I don’t often ask MTP readers for their vote,…
Q1 Stats Show A Growing Music Industry IF It Can Figure Out Streaming
New sales and streaming stats from BuzzAngle Music show a recorded music industry that’s growing again, led by an explosion in streaming. But with digital and physical sales plummeting, the pressure in is own to make streaming profitable for all – the labels, the creators and the services themselves. _____________________________…
FRI. BRIEF: Q1 Numbers Released • Spotify’s Non-IPO Plans • YouTube Ups Ad Limit • More
Friday 4.7.17 Music Business News From Around The Web New music industry snapshots show a growing business entirely dominated by streaming Updated continuously under our More News tab
1-in-5 Videos Shared On Facebook Are Now Live Streams
Live video is exploding across social networks, but particularly on Facebook. Fidji Simo, Facebook’s head of video, revealed that now one in five videos shared on the social network is live; and over the past year, daily watch time for Facebook Live broadcasts has grown by more than 4 times….