Facing financial difficulties, SoundCloud has actively been seeking a buyer for months. Even after dropping the asking price from $1 billion to $700,000 or less, reported interested from Spotify and others faded. Now come new reports that multiple suitors are actively eying the streamer. ______________________________________________ Several major players are actively…
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Jay-Z’s New TIDAL, Sprint Exclusive Album 4.44 Was Pirated Almost 1 Million Times In First 3 Days
Did the Jay-Z’s new album release as a TIDAL and Sprint exclusive lead to more piracy? Even Snoop Dog admitted said that he had to "bootleg" the album to hear it. Well, we’ve got an answer – nearly 1 million illegal "4.44" downloads in the just first 72 hours -…
Snoop Dogg Admits To Pirating Jay-Z’s 4:44 Because He Doesn’t Subscribe To TIDAL
The only way to stream Jay-Z’s "4:44" is as a previous subscriber to his Tidal music streaminging service or if you’re a Sprint customer. That briefly stymied Snoop Dogg, who wanted to hear his friend’s new recording and promote it to his own fans. His solution? Pirate it. ______________________________________________________ To…
Kanye West Exits Jay-Z’s Tidal, Claims He’s Owed $3M
Kanye West has reportedly pulled out of Tidal in a dispute that could go legal. The mercurial rapper claims that Jay-Z’s music streamer owes him more than $3 million for video production, as well as an unpaid bonus. Tidal could sue if West works with another music streamer. Kanye West…
Taylor Swift’s Return To Streaming Pays Off
A lack of any appreciable revenue was one of the primary reasons for Taylor Swift’s departure from streaming services, streaming revenue has picked up significantly since then however, and The Swift has been raking it in since her music returned to major streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. ______________________________…
In A Seismic Shift, More Of Gen Z Get Their Music From Spotify Than YouTube [MARK MULLIGAN]
The common wisdom for the last few years is that teens use YouTube as their primary conduit for music discovery and consumption. But Mark Mulligan and the MIDIA research team took a deep dive into new data and found a seismic shift underway. _________________________________________________ By Mark Mulligan of entertainment industry…
Compromise Proposal To Fix Streaming Royalties, Licensing, Notification [DAVID LOWERY]
Here David Lowery outlines his proposal for a modification of proposed legislation from the NMPA which would to solve issues with streaming royalties and licensing in a manner which would benefit all parties involved. __________________________________ Guest post by David Lowery of The Trichordist I have a feeling I’m about to…
Net Radio Service 8Tracks Hacked, Details Of Millions Of User Accounts Stolen
Popular online radio and playlist service 8Tracks has been hit by hackers, with the account details of millions who have used the site since 2008 stolen and available for sale on the Dark Web. ____________________________________________ Beloved online radio and playlist site 8Tracks has been hacked, and it’s full database is…
Spotify Added 100M Users In Last 3 Years, Pandora Added 5M
I t’s clearly turnaround time at Pandora.Three top executives, including founder and CEO Tim Westergren, are out, MediaREDEF’s Jason Hirschhorn has joined the board and $480 million is on the way from SiriusXM. ______________________________________ In addition to no clear path to profitability, Pandora suffers from a distinct lack of growth,…
Apple Music Rolls Out Data Driven "My Chill Mix"
Taking a page from the Spotify playbook and algorithm driven playlists like "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar," Apple Music is slowly rolling out "My Chill Mix" to all users. Designed to deliver the right mix to help relax each user, "My Chill Mix" will choose songs based on their existing…