"What if that metal fan only listened to Metallica, yet still 10% of that subscriber’s revenue went to Katy Perry?" It is not a hypothetical question. It’s actually how payments to rightsholders are calculated by Spotify, Apple Music and all other music streamers. But Mark Mulligan discovered that rival Deezer…
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Spotify Premium For Students Adds 50% OFF Subscriptions In 33 More Countries, Partners with SheerID
[UPDATED] Spotify has launched its Spotify Premium for Students in 33 new countries. Spotify Premium for Students allows all registered students to enjoy Spotify Premium, including all of the benefits that come with being a Premium subscriber, for about half of the the standard local price. _________________________________ _____________________________ Spotify has…
Facebook Announces Full Spotify, Apple Music Messenger Integrations
UPDATED: "Music will play a much larger roll in messenger this year," promised Facebook’s head of the Messenger platform David Marcus on stage Tuesday during Facebook’s F8 developer conference before announcing two key integrations. _________________________________ Spotify is now fully integrated into the Facebook Messenger app, the social media giant announced…
Spotify Has Launched A Facebook Messenger Bot For Music Discovery And Sharing
UPDATE 2: Spotify has launched a bot for Facebook Messenger that lets friends share music within chats. The bot includes search, recommendations, sharing a 30 second song clip within Messenger, or launching Spotify to hear the full song. Spotify has created a bot for Facebook Messenger that lets friends discover…
Streaming May Have Slowed Piracy, But It Certainly Hasn’t Stopped It [CHART]
The convenience of streaming has unquestionably slowed music piracy. But it certainly has not stopped it. According to a late 2016 study by Ipsos for the IFPI which surveyed 12,600 internet users in 13 countries, more than 1/3 said they had still accessed copyright infringing music over the previous 6…
Survival Of The Shortest: Did Streaming Kill Song Intros?
While lengthy, dramatic intros used to be commonplace in the power pop ballads of a few decades ago, a recent study has revealed that the hits of today have significantly more truncated, something for which consumers shortened attention spans are likely to blame. _______________________________ Guest post by Misti Crane of…
Fan Insights Rebrands As Spotify For Artists, Now Available To All Artists and Managers
In November 2015, Spotify released Spotify Fan Insights, a dashboard to help artists better understand their Spotify listeners. Today, it exited beta as Spotify For Artists combining analytics, profile management tools and some new features. ____________________________ Spotify Fan Insights has rebranded as Spotify for Artists and is available to all…
Digital Music Strategist Andrew Woloz Shares His Song Stories
Music shapes our identities and changes our lives. It brings back our memories and stirs up our emotions. My Song Stories asks music professionals and indie artists questions about the songs in their libraries. Today, Andrew Woloz, a consultant who helps companies and artists with their digital music strategy, shares…
Pandora Predictions: Boy Band ‘Why Don’t We’ Rise, ‘Cigarettes After Sex’ Light Up, #Classicalbae
In this round of Pandora’s Predictions Chart, we take a look at a violinist bringing the strings to hip-hop, a new boy band fivesome, as well as two dream-pop acts riding the escapism wave. ________________________________ Guest post by Emily Blake of Next Big Sound On this week’s Pandora Predictions Chart,…
Pandora Premium Exits Invite-Only, Artist Driven “Sounds Like You” Marketing Campaign Launches
Pandora Premium, the music streamer’s paid on-demand service, is now available to all users via the Apple App Store, Google Play and on the web. Previously, Pandora Premium had been invite-only. __________________________ To celebrate the wide availability of it’s new Pandora Premium music service, the streamer has debuted “Sounds Like…