Although Spotify certainly has many fine features, many artists have found it to be lacking when it comes to the tools it makes available to artists to market themselves on the platform. This seems to be looking up however, particularly in the wake of a couple recent updates, although the…
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YouTube Has Paid Musicians, Music Industry $1 Billion In 12 Months vs $1.6 Billion From Spotify
UPDATED: Amid ongoing label driven furor over the size of payments to musicians and the music industry, YouTube has shared a big number – $1 billion. That’s the amount that it has paid the music industry in the last 12 months. _____________________________ YouTube shared on Tuesday that it has paid…
Music Streaming Services Using AI To Revolutionize Listening Experience.
As the music industry continues to integrate new technologies, music streaming services are eager to make further inroads into music discovery and personalization, something which the implementation of artificial intelligence could help achieve. ________________________ From the team at Report Linker In an industry known for disruption, it should come as…
The Streaming Music Price Wars Have Started
Something many believed to be an inevitable occurrence, it seems the first of the streaming music price wars has broken out. Precipitated by Amazon’s joining of the market, other streaming industry major players like Spotify and Google have dropped their prices in response. _______________________ Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on…
DigitalRadioTracker: Tracking Internet Radio Spins
Although internet radio has in many ways been a large asset to the music industry, allowing artists to launch shows, stations, and further connect via this new platform, however being able to track spins on internet radio has always been notoriously difficult, something which DigitalRadioTracker may make easier. _______________________ In…
As Paid Music Streaming Escalates Paying Downloaders Can’t Be Left Behind
Although paid streaming subscriptions have continued to grow at a steady rate, the far more rapid decline of paid downloads, along with CD sales suggests that streaming services need to grow their paying subscriber base at an even greater rate. ________________________ Guest Post by Russ Crupnick on Music Watch As…
Is Pandora For Sale? CNBC Says Yes, Reuters Says No
Pandora is for sale, sources tell CNBC. The primary suitor is reportedly SiriusXM, who Pandora rejected several months ago. The dealmaking is in "the first inning of the process," according to a source. Shares of Pandora rose 11% by early afternoon on Friday. Reuters says no: "Pandora is making no…
Baile Funk? Speed Garage? 10 Genres You’ve Never Heard Of Top Spotify’s Emerging Genre Chart
Witch House, World Meditation and Dangdut are among the ten that top the list of new genres emerging in 2016 on Spotify. The music streamer did not share stats, but each is clearly worth paying attention to for any serious music junky or forward thinking music executive. ________________________ Top 10…
iHeart Puts New Spin On Pandora, Spotify w/Today’s Launch Of IHeartRadio Plus and All Access Powered by Napster
On Wednesday, iHeartMeida launched both the Pandora-like ad free iHeartRadio Plus and iHeartRadio All Access, a full service music streamer. Rather than build their own music service from scratch, the broadcast radio behemoth partnered with Napster to power it’s new Spotify competitor. ___________________________________ iHeartMedia today launched iHeartRadio Plus and iHeartRadio…
Spotify Discover Weekly Has Helped Fans Unearth 300 Billion Tracks
Included with Spotify’s annual lists of artists, albums, tracks and trends that topped the service in 2016, was a note that the music streamer’s Discover Weekly playlists had been streamed more than 9 billion times as of the end of November. _____________________________________ Discover Weekly playlists have been streamed more than…