Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Today, SoundCloud rolled out its music subscription service, SoundCloud Go. And it’s actually pretty decent… The Basics: For the first 30 days the service is free, $9.99 a month on Web/Android thereafter and $12.99 a month for iOS. Go boasts a huge catalog of songs: approximately 125 million, making it attractive to a wide range of music […]
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Exhibit A: Estimated number of paying streaming music subscribers vs. ad-supported free users (Worldwide, 2015). Exhibit B: Estimated revenues created by paying streaming subscribers vs. ad-supported free users (Worldwide, 2015). Last week, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) reaffirmed that vinyl records are generating more revenue than free, ad-supported streaming users. But that is less of a reflection on how much […]
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Yesterday, Lil Wayne filed a lawsuit against Universal Music, claiming that the label owes him tens of millions of dollars in unpaid royalties. This all started when Lil Wayne’s Young Money label entered an agreement Universal Music’s Cash Money Records in 2003. The aim of that agreement was to discover and nurture new artists […]
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The following was emailed to Digital Music News this morning from a featured artist trying to figure out his royalties. Can you help this person out? Hi Paul, I am a artist and songwriter who just finished reading your article “Now you know everything about publishing” One thing that I find hard to find is how […]
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So it’s official: SoundCloud has entered the music subscription market in the US. The following is a developing story. Please check for ongoing updates. Early this (Tuesday) morning, SoundCloud launched a new subscription service to rival the likes of Spotify and Apple Music. That new service is called SoundCloud Go. The launch has been highly anticipated […]
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A US federal judge has now allowed a massive, $250 million defamation lawsuit against the makers of ‘Straight Outta Compton’ to proceed. The lawsuit, filed by original N.W.A manager Jerry Heller last fall, alleges defamation for wantonly fabricating falsehoods in one of the biggest films of 2015. The complaint, originally lodged on October 30th, 2015 in […]
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A list of executive shuffles across the music business… iHeart Radio has hired radio executive Rob Farina as Senior Advisor, just in time for the launch of iHeart Radio in Canada. Farina most recently worked as Vice President of Content for Rogers Media. Pandora recently announced Tim Westergren as CEO following Brian McAndrews’ exit from the company (full […]
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On Monday, Pandora’s CEO exited the company amidst a broader shake-up. Where will founder Tim Westergren take his company next? Pandora has been making bold moves to progress its business model and compete more successfully in the music streaming market. But despite aggressive efforts, internal tensions and investor angst are clouding the long-term vision. The Executive Shake-Up […]
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New Zealand’s #1 parody-rock duo, Flight of the Conchords, announced today a revised tour schedule, which sees their North American tour gaining a few dates in June and July. The newly added stops are June 25, Portland, OR at Keller Auditorium; June 28…
On Friday, Kendrick Lamar, OutKast, El-P, and Chuck D joined Q-Tip on his Beats 1 radio show, “Abstract Radio,” to discuss the impact Phife Dawg had on their lives and careers. Phife Dawg passed away March 22nd. During the show, Q-Tip played a two-hour…