SiriusXM creates first dedicated original content team at Pandora

Team will focus on creating original content in music, sports, and talk and more
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100 Million Use Paid Music Streaming Services In US [MusicWatch]

Fresh off the release of RIAA revenue numbers MusicWatch shared its year-end numbers assessing the size of the US streaming market and how music listening is evolving. Among the internet using population 13 and older MusicWatch reported a record 165 million streamers in 4Q, based on listening at least one…

Did Technology Bring About The Death Of Good Music?

After new research was released suggesting that millennials prefer golden oldies to contemporary pop, Stephen Carlisle did some digging to determine if this was in fact accurate and, if so, what role technology may have played in the "decline" of music’s quality. _____________________________ Guest post by Stephen Carlisle of NOVA…

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Pandora ‘Stories’ Adds Creator Commentary To Playlists

Pandora has launched "Stories," a new tool that allows artists, songwriters and podcasters to add commentary to music and "combining the storytelling of podcasts with the musical power of playlists." Using Pandora Stories, creators can curate Playlists and Mixtapes comprised of tracks from Pandora’s catalog and then customize it with…

Pandora launches Stories feature, allowing artists to create playlists interspersed with voice tracks

Pandora Stories is the latest addition to Pandora’s Artist Marketing Platform
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Next Big Sound Adds Pandora Streams To Audience Map: Know Where Your Fans Are

Pandora owned analytics platform Next Big Sound has improved its Audience Map with adding an important metric – where an artist’s Pandora streams are coming from. Launched last last November, the chart had previously only highlighted the areas where an artist received Pandora Artist Station Adds over the last 28…

TIDAL Launches $1 Million Emerging Artists Grant Program ‘TIDAL Unplugged’

TIDAL and benefactors Mark Lampert and Robert Nelsen today announced the launch of TIDAL Unplugged, a million dollar grant program for emerging artists. Funded by a donation from Lampert and Nelsen, TIDAL Unplugged will launch in Detroit in March. Local artists will can submit their music through TIDAL to receive…

Soundcharts Launches New Music Data Platform With Unlimited Team Access

Music analytics platform Soundcharts has launched a new version with new pricing. Under the plan, users can share data access with their entire team at no additional cost. Every plan comes with unlimited users and is based on the number of monitored artists, starting at €19 / $21.50 USD per…

Streaming Music Revenue Up, But Per Song Rates May Have Dropped In 2018

In this piece, Bobby Owsinski breaks down some complex recent streaming data, which highlights the disparity between the royalty rates paid out by major streamers (with YouTube coming up particularly short) as well as the contextual challenge of drawing accurate information from these kinds of data sets. __________________________ Guest post…