As with so many industries, the music business has undergone a massive transformation over the past few years, meaning the rules for success have changed as well. Here we look broadly at ten basic concepts for advancing in the contemporary music business. ___________________ Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music…
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Spotify Stock Hits All Time Low And It’s Going To Go Lower [NASDAQ: SPOT]
Spotify stock closed down 4.14% on Thursday at $114.54, it’s lowest closing price ever. A down market may be accelerating the streamer’s decline, but as Chris Castle dove into Spotify’s stock woes, he saw its radical IPO strategy led to some of the company’s current complications and ensuing dip in…
Sounds Of Music 2018 From Pandora’s Music Genome Project
How did music change in 2018? It’s not an easy question to answer, but the data gurus at Pandora have crunched the mountains of data that power the Music Genome Project to find out. _______________________________ By Emily Blake and Sergio Oramas of Pandora Most of us can likely recognize an…
Soundcloud Artist Services Team Offers 5 Tips To Jump-Start Your Music Career In 2019
Soundcloud sees the most new music uploads during this January. So since it’s the time for creators to refocus on growing and building their careers, Soundcloud’s artist and label services team it offering its top 5 tips to“break through the noise" and kick-start a music career in 2019. 1. Get…
Tunecore Adds New Distribution Features
Tunecore has added three features to improve how new music from the diy digital distributor is ingested onto Apple Music, Spotify and other music services. The changes should also make Tunecore more compliant with increasingly stringent data requirements from Spotify and Apple Music designed to insure that artists are properly…
Tencent Music IPO Demonstrates Music Tech Investment Coming To Its Senses
While the Chinese music streaming service Tencent Music debuted with an impressively initial public offering of $14.10, music tech investors seem to have come back down to earth somewhat and reduced its value to a more modest level. ___________________ Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The Chinese music…
Facebook Struggles To Explain Why It Gave Spotify, Netflix Access To Private Messages
Facebook ramped efforts to justify sharing private messages with Spotify and Netflix, after backlash from a New York Times investigation that revealed the social network had been sharing private data with select corporate partners for years. At first, both Spotify and Netflix denied the report. But after Facebook detailed its…
Spotify Responds To Facebook Private Data Controversy
Spotify, Amazon, Apple and several dozen other major companies were exempted from Facebook privacy rules and given access to private user data, according to a New York Times report. Spotify was also reportedly given access to 70 million private messages each month. The social network has since largely confirmed the…
How Many In US Listen To Spotify vs Pandora
As streaming music use skyrockets, much is made of the neck and neck race between upstart Spotify and market leader Pandora for listenership. In the United States, however, there’s a clear winner, according to eMarketer. 58.4 million people in the US will use Spotify, making up 20.8% of internet users….
Facebook Confirms Spotify Used Access To Private Messages, Other User Data
[UPDATED] Spotify, Apple, Amazon and other companies were reportedly exempted from Facebook privacy rules and given more access to user data than the infamous Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has confirmed that Spotify also had access users’ private messages. "For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive…