Stream-ripping sites, the new boogymen of the music industry, have been under heavy assault lately, a crusade which YouTube has happily joined in on. Unfortunately, these attempted shutdowns have been carried out with a typical lack of nuance which is now to be expected. __________________________________ Op-ed by Timothy Geigner from…
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Spotify Playlist ¡Viva Latino! Passes 10 Million Followers
¡Viva Latino! has been growing 5x times faster than any other Spotify playlist in its top 1000. The streamer’s flagship Latin playlist has propelled numerous Spanish-language songs into the Global Top 100 and Top 50 charts. Now, ¡Viva Latino! has surpassed an impressive 10 million followers. The growth of Spotify’s…
Spotify Playlist ¡Viva Latino! Passes 10 Million Followers
¡Viva Latino! has been growing 5x times faster than any other Spotify playlist in its top 1000. The streamer’s flagship Latin playlist has propelled numerous Spanish-language songs into the Global Top 100 and Top 50 charts. Now, ¡Viva Latino! has surpassed an impressive 10 million followers. The growth of Spotify’s…
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Spotify Names Sulinna Ong Head of Music UK and Ireland
Spotify has appointed Sulinna Ong to the newly-created role of Head of Music in the UK and Ireland. Ong initially joined Spotify in April as Head of Artist & Label Services. She came to the streaming giant from Deezer, where she served as Global Vice President of Artist Marketing. I’m…
Drake Strikes Creative Partnership with SiriusXM, Pandora
Satellite broadcaster SiriusXM announced that it has signed a wide-ranging creative partnership with Canadian rap legend Drake. The partnership includes a branded SiriusXM station that will feature a playlist of curated music from Drake, as well as special collaborations with other artists. Product rollouts are expected to begin later this…
Streaming is having a huge year in France – led by Apple Music’s new ‘signing’, rap duo PNL
Apple inked an ongoing exclusive partnership with duo in June
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6 Tales From ‘Spotify Unknown’ Of Near Misses, Aborted Acquisitions and Steve Jobs’ Heavy Breathing
T’Spotify Untold’ offers a behind-the-scenes "character-driven story of Spotify’s rise from a tiny start-up to the biggest music streaming company in the world,” and the new book is filled with some juicy revelations. The book by Swedish journalists Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud, tech reporters for Stockholm-based Di Digital is…
A Music Metadata Best Practice Guide
Recently AFEM and CI collaborated to create a "Meta Data Best Practice Guide", a definite must read for artists, particularly those who don’t fully understand what metadata is, or why it’s so important for artists to have, living as we are in the streaming age. ______________________________ Guest post by Randi…
Music Physical Product Issues Signals Upheaval Ahead
Although the sale of physical music is still a large part of the revenue pulled in by major labels, their whole-hearted embrace of streaming has caused them to neglect traditional retail sales, with some fairly disastrous results. ____________________________ Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The U.S. recorded music…