Spotify has launched Publishing Analytics in beta. Dubbed the first music streaming analytics tool built specifically for music publishers, the platform was developed in collaboration with a range of publishers to service the various roles that publishers play from A&R to administration. Spotify Publishing Analytics provides music publishers with daily…
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Amazon Music Adds Mexico As Anderson.Paak, Future Kick Off Major US, UK Marketing Campaign [VIDEO]
Amazon Music, has begun its first ever marketing campaign in the US, UK and Germany along with a platform launch today in Mexico. Often considered the wild card in the streaming music wars, Amazon Music spots from Future and Anderson.Paak were released this week With "tens of millions of users"…
Spotify To Bring Free Tier To Connected Speakers Soon
Spotify has announced that it will make streaming to connected speakers available on its free ad-supported tier very soon. Until now, device connectivity has only been available to paid Spotify Premium users. “Any connected hardware partner will now have the opportunity to use eSDK 3 to allow millions of users…
BTS Is 1st Korean Artist To Pass 1M Apple Music Streams
The BTS behemoth keeps gaining momentum.This week …
Apple Rewards 3 ‘Preferred Plus’ Music Distribution Partners With Advanced Features, Analytics
Last week, Apple launched a "Apple-Preferred Distribution Program," naming just three music distributors as "Preferred Plus" partners, and rewarding them with advanced customer features and analytics not available to their competitors. ________________________________ The Orchard, CD Baby and EU based aggregator Kontor New Media were named Apple Preferred Plus music distribution…
Pandora Reports Solid Q3, 6.8M Paid Subscribers
Pandora reported a sold Q3, including adding 784,000 subscribers in Q3, reaching approximately 6.8 million for its various paid services. That’s a fraction of Spotify or Apple Music, but when factoring users of its free service, Pandora has 68.8 million active users, down slightly, with total listener hours of 4.81…
Pandora Adds Christine Colbert To Indie Relations Team
Pandora has named Christine Colbert as Senior Manager, Industry Relations – Indie. She joins the streamer from Warp Records, where she was North American Project and Communications Manager, working with such artists as Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and Grizzly Bear. Christine Colbert Prior to joining Warp Colbert worked at the…
India’s JioMusic to rebrand as JioSaavn after $1bn merger – report
Saavn’s entire catalog will reportedly be made available on JioSaavn
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Spotify For Artists Will Charge For Some Services, says CEO Daniel Ek
Spotify will charge for some Spotify For Artists products and services, CEO Daniel Ek stated during last week’s earnings call. While "unlikely" that the it will charge for data, this mark’s the first time that the streamer has said it will monetize any of the services that it has touted…
A Great Music Marketing Plan Is More Than A Bunch Of Tools
Do you have a marketing plan? Do you really have a marketing plan? A playlist Is Not A Marketing Plan. A record label is not a marketing plan. A digital distributor is not a marketing plan. A Facebook page is not a marketing plan. Posting to social media is not…