[UPDATED] Spotify has launched Daily Mix – a series of computer generated mixes combining the users favorite tracks with new songs. Alongside Spotify’s popular Discovery Weekly and Release Radar, the new offering provides an unrivaled personalized and constantly updated lean-back experience. ________________________________________ Spotify today launches Daily Mix – a group…
Category archives: Music Tech
TUE. BRIEF: Inside The New Apple Music • Rdio Failure Dissected • Sonos To Apple Stores • Dice • More
Tuesday 9.27.16 Music Business News From Around The Web Apple’s music sage Jimmy Iovine on streaming: “I don’t think we know yet, I don’t think anyone knows yet.” Updated under our More News tab
Why Would Music Tech Startup BandLab Want To Buy A Stake In Rolling Stone? [Mark Mulligan]
Why would a new model music tech company invest in an old school rock magazine? That’s what analyst Mark Mulligan asked on the news that BandLab had bought 49% of Rolling Stone. ______________________________________________ By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA News emerged yesterday that Singapore music creator community and collaboration platform BandLab…
Former LinkedIn, Apple Marketing Exec Nick Bartle Joins Pandora
As they ramp up to launch two paid streaming music services, Pandora has announced that Nick Bartle will join Chief Marketing Officer. He joins Pandora from LinkedIn, where he served as VP of Member Marketing and Communications. Prior to that, Bartle was Senior Director of Marketing Communications for Apple. “I’m…
"Their technologies don’t and won’t last. Our art – if we do it right – will." – T Bone Burnett’s AmericanaFest Keynote
Bashing Spotify and YouTube is easy. But T Bone Burnett did much more than that during his keynote address given at AmericanaFest, the Americana Music Festival & Conference last week in Nashville. He issued a call to arms, while reminding his fellow creators that "art is a holy pursuit." _________________________________________…
ASCAP Expands Digital Team
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has hired Dana Fletcher and David Frigeri their new Digital Team initiative. Reporting to Alice Kim, ASCAP’s Chief Strategy & Digital Officer, the Digital Team, comprised of the Digital Product & User Experience Group, led by Dena Fletcher, as well as…
Social Music Company BandLab Buys Major Stake In Rolling Stone
Even as streaming has helped the music industry right itself, rock journalism is still undergoing major upheaval. In the latest chapter, a Singapore-based social music company acquired a substantial stake in venerable music magazine Rolling Stone. BandLab Technologies, a Singapore-based social music company, has acquired a substantial minority stake in…
MON. BRIEF: Singapore Investor Buys Major Rolling Stone Stake • ScoreBig Shuts Down • Snapchat Spectacles • More
Monday 9.26.16 Music Business News From Around The Web Does a Singapore investor buying 49% of Rolling Stone signal the end of an era or the start of a more global musical perspective. Updated under our More News tab
Last Week In Music Commentary
Many gave voice to industry issues this week, with commentary ranging from the new Apple Airpods, to DMCA safe harbors, to lawsuits against the Department of Justice. 2016: The #Yearofwireless – Apple’s AirPods, Sonos And More Former UMG Exec: Major Label Music Should Cost More, Destroy DMCA Safe Harbors New…
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week in Review
In this round of our weekly re-visitation of industry news from the past seven days we look at iHeartMedia’s confirmed launch of two new streaming services, Spotify and Tinder’s recent union, recorded music’s growth, and more. iHeartMedia Confirms January Launch Of 2 New Streaming Music Services, Multiple Label Deals Playster…