Earlier this week, Hypebot published an important Music Biz Weekly podcast interview with Attorney Chris Castle delving into the demise of PledgeMusic and its legal ramifications for artists, vendors and the music industry. Because of the importance of this topic, we’ve had the full interview transcribed. _________________________________ This transcription of…
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How Spotify Calculates An Artist’s Monthly Active Users
Spotify monthly active user counts are one of the most important metrics used by the music industry – radio, media, A&R and more – to judge how hot an artist is and the size of their fan base. But how does Spotify calculate monthly active users? Is it unique listeners…
Building Your Artist Development Team: The Music Producer
In this second part of a series on artist development and establishing an effective team, Camille Barbone delves into the role of the music producer, including how to find one, what their responsibilities are, and how to work with one. ___________________________ Guest post by Camille Barbone of the Symphonic Blog…
The Reason Unpaid Music Internships Are A Problem
While internships can be a great way to put you on the road to industry success, unpaid internships can often class out promising candidates by not offering the support necessary for them to get their foot in the door. __________________________________ Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix Internships are a…
Saban Music Group Launches With $500 Million Investment
Billionaire investor Haim Saban, Chairman of Saban Capital Group, is teaming with music industry veteran Gustavo Lopez to launch Saban Music Group with a promised $500 million investment. SMG is positioned as a record label, international A&R, and artist development company built around offering ‘360 deals’ to artists. As part…
Ed Sheeran Breaks Another Spotify Record: 69M Unique Monthly Listeners
Ed Sheeran has notched yet another streaming record, surpassing a staggering 69 million monthly Spotify listeners, and is on course to hit 70 million. Sheeran has seen a spike in Spotify ‘Sheerios’ – as his fans are known – with the July 12th release of his album ‘No. 6 Collaborations…
THU. BRIEF: Sony Restructures • Saban Funds $500M Music Launch • Spotify Disney Hub • UMG Fire Update • More
THURSDAY 7.18.19
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BUSINESS OF INDIE: Astral People Launches • The Orchard Revealed • Zebralution Acquires EMS • More
In this week’s Business Of Indie, Indie label Astral People launches, The Orchard’s Chief Operating Officer Colleen Theis tells all, distributor Zebrulation acquires its technical service provider Encoding Management Service (EMS) and much more. Like Hypebot’s More News section, The Business Of Indie is nestled under its own Indie tab…
Sony Consolidates Records, Publishing Under Rob Stringer
Sony Corporation chief Kenichiro Yoshida has announced that the company will bring together its recorded music and music publishing businesses outside of Japan under the umbrella of Sony Music Group Sony Music Entertainment CEO Rob Stringer will now run Sony Music Group as well as Sony Music Entertainment. According to…
SXSW 2020 PanelPicker: Just 3 Days Left To Submit
The deadline to submit proposals to the SXSW PanelPicker is this Friday. July 19th. This online process gives attendees a voice in conference programming including presentations, panels and at SXSW. Competition is fierce with 6100 proposals submitted in 2018. The 2020 SXSW Conference & Festivals will run from March 13-22,…