Spotify Play buttons are increasingly common across the web as online media, artists and fans embed and share their Spotify playlists. The music streamer just made sharing even easier, adding social media buttons to each embedded playlist. Take a look…
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Pandora, Sound Exchange, RIAA Join In Support Of Pre-1972 Royalty Bill
Pandora, SoundExchange and the RIAA are joining together to support the CLASSICS Act, a bill in the U.S. Congress that would benefit artists and music creators who recorded music before 1972 by establishing royalty payments whenever their music is played on digital radio services. ______________________________________ U.S. Representatives Darrell Issa (R-Cali.)…
Spotify Most Played, Viral Tracks US, UK, Global Week Ending 7.14.17
Here are Spotify’s most played and most viral tracks for the week ending 7.14.17. The Spotify Weekly Charts highlight top artists by listener along with the past week’s most streamed and viral songs in the US, UK and globally. Spotify Global Top Artists (by Listener) Rank Artist Monthly Listeners 1…
Pandora’s VP of Product For Creators Shamal Ranasinghe on "Enabling The Artist Revolution"
"A key to enabling the artist revolution is to give all creators the means to introduce their new music most efficiently, almost perfectly, to new audiences… (this is) the Holy Grail," says Shamal Ranasinghe, Pandora’s VP Product for Creators, Artists and Content Operations. The streamer’s Artist Marketing Platform (AMP), which…
Help Spotify Fine Tune Your Music Recommendations By Taking This 10 Song Survey
Spotify’s team of music data scientists are using an old school method – user surveys – to fine tune their advanced music recommendation algorithm that already seems to know a lot more about what I really want to listen to than I do. ___________________________________________ Spotify is testing a short music…
Spotify Hit With Two New Music Publisher Lawsuits Alleging Unlicensed Use Of 2500+ Songs
Spotify’s troubled relationship with songwriters and music publishers took a another hit this week, as two new lawsuits by music publishers were filed over alleged unlicensed use of more that 2500 songs, including several hit titles. ____________________________________________ Nashville music publishers Rob Gaudino and Bluewater Music have each filed lawsuits alleging…
How To Get Verified On Spotify, Apple Music
Here Leticia Trandafir walks us through why artists should get verified on streaming services, how they can get verified, the opportunities it provides, and the proper way to manage and artist profile on streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. __________________________ Guest post by Leticia Trandafir of Landr So after…
Downtown Music Publishing Promotes Andrew Sparkler SVP Biz Dev [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW]
[UPDATED] Downtown Music Publishing has promoted Andrew Sparkler to SVP, Business Development. He joined Downtown in 2014 as VP Business Affairs, and was the catalyst behind the indie publisher’s innovative direct YouTube deal. Prior to joining Downtown, Sparkler was Vice President and Head of Business Affairs at ASCAP. In his…
Hey Alexa, Where’s My Money? An Update On ‘Address Unknown’ Royalty-free Windfall Loophole
A new update on the status of the exploitation of the ‘address unknown’ mass NOI filings to the Copyright Office has come out, thanks to Sydney-based Paperchain. Attorney Chris Castle shares a 70% rise in such filings, with Amazon still the champion exploiter, followed by Google and then Spotify. ________________________…
Pandora’s Free AMP Marketing Platform Adds Features As Artist Audio Messages Pass 1 Billion Impressions
Pandora (NYSE: P) has added key new features to its free AMP (Artist Marketing Platform). Direct to fan audio messages from 11,000 artists using the platform have now generated more than a billion listener impressions. ___________________________________________________ Pandora founder Tim Westergren has stepped down, but so far, his legacy of empowering…