Personal data from 43 million Last.fm users has been leaked online. It’s a new day, so it was about time for a new data leak; and music sites with their moderate security, appear to be a favorite hacker target. ___________________________________ Leaked password, email addresses and personal data from 43 million…
Category archives: Streaming & Cloud
The High Wire Of Releasing Music [David Emery]
In this piece, David Emery muses on the changing face of the music industry, and how windowing and streaming exclusives are precipitating gradual but fundamental alterations to the way artists release music and listeners consume it. _________________________________ Guest post by David Emery, VP Global Marketing Strategy for Kobalt Label Services…
Spotify Shares Most Streamed Songs of Summer 2016 Global, U.S.
Spotify has shared the songs that dominated summer listening in 2016. Drake’s “One Dance” was #1 globally. In second place was Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna with “This Is What You Came For,” and Sia’s “Cheap Thrills” was #3. Here’s the top 10 U.S. and Global. ___________________________________ Spotify’s Global Top 10…
Hip Hop Dominates Last Week’s Pandora Trendsetters Chart
When it comes to trend setting music genres, hip hop appears to be cleaning up. According to the latest data from Pandora, seven of the top 10 artists on its Trendsetters Chart are rappers. __________________________ Guest Post by Emily Blake on Next Big Sound As if its unrelenting influence on…
Apple Music Offers Discount On 1 Year Subscriptions
Just ahead of Wednesday’s major product launch event, Apple is offer a big discount on a one year Apple Music subscription. Apple can afford to discount because most it’s profits come from hardware and offers no free music tier. _______________________________________ Apple Music is selling gift cards for a 1 year…
Soundcloud Names Former Google Exec As CFO
SoundCloud has named Holly Lim as its first Chief Financial Officer. As a member of the Executive Team, she will split her time between SoundCloud’s HQ in Berlin, Germany and its New York office. ________________________________ Holly Lim joins SoundCloud as CFO from Google where she led Google’s Business Operations for…
Is Spotify Punishing Apple Artists?
In an effort to combat the rash of Apple Music exclusives which have been cropping up of late, Spotify has allegedly been manipulating search results so that artists who provided with Apple with such exclusives don’t appear in top rankings, as well as keeping them off its curated playlists. ____________________________…
Growth In Music Streaming Revenue [Infographic]
This revealing new chart shows some surprising changes in the music streaming industry over the past few years, while ad-supported streaming seems to be resting at a relatively stagnant $600 million, subscription-based streaming has climbed demonstrably since 2010. ___________________________ This chart originally appeared on Business Insider Related articles U.S. Music…
How Music Industry Project Management SHOULD Work
As the music industry has transformed and increased in complexity so dramatically over the past few years that the already time consuming task of reporting has grown even more so. In this piece, David Weiszfeld looks at how reporting and project management should work in the music business. _________________________________________ Guest…
A Look At How Well Streaming Music Is Really Doing And The Major Label’s "Streaming Reality Distortion Field" [Mark Mulligan]
All 3 major labels have reported impressive growth in streaming income. But that’s only a fraction of the story, says top industry analyst Mark Mulligan of MIDiA. "If the music service wins, the label wins, if the music service loses, the label still wins," he says. "This disconnect… is one…