FRIDAY 10.25.19
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Investors, Labels Queston Spotify’s Future
Just days before Spotify’s Monday earnings report, some label execs and Wall Street analysts are questioning if the steaming giant will ever be profitable, and if not, can it survive? By Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Spotify certainly looks like the big dog on the streaming block, and perhaps it…
How An Artist Grew To 500,000 Monthly Spotify Listeners Without The Use Of Playlists
In this piece, Ari Herstand walks us through the rise of Virginian hip hop artist Lucidious, and how he managed to go from about 150 monthly listeners to 500,00, without relying on playlist placement. ______________________________ Guest post by musician and author Ari Herstand of Ari’s Take Three years ago the…
Artists Can Now Pay To Promote New Releases On Spotify Including To Paid Premium Users
Spotify announced today that artists and labels will be able to buy paid placements across both its paid Premium and free ad-supported tiers to promotes new releases. Dubbed "Brand New Music For You," this US only test marks the first time that Premium Spotify users can be targeted with paid…
Why Streaming Royalties Will Always Stay Too Low To Make A Living Off Of [Video]
Disc Maker’s Tony van Veen details why he believes that streaming services will never pay independent artists enough in royalties for them to make a comfortable living in the way that physical CD sales once did. ____________________________________ Guest post by Tony van Veen of Disc Makers I’m afraid I have…
Record labels can now pay Spotify to promote artists on the platform, via pop-up ‘Music For You’ alerts
US-only ‘test’ is first official sign of Spotify charging labels and artists for ‘two-sided marketplace’
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Pandora AMP Turns 5: Artists Using Free Artist Marketing Platform Up 688% In Last Year
Pandora’s free Artist Marketing Platform (AMP) is now five years old and the robust music marketing toolkit has much to celebrate. Artists using the free self-serve platform grew 688% in the last year alone. As of this month, artists have delivered 4.5 billion audio impressions of free messages recorded by…
PB Recommends #62 (Frank Ocean, Lone, Jacques Greene, Air Max ’97 & More)
Welcome back to our PB Recommends series, where we share a selection of hand-picked earworms that we can’t get enough of. This month’s edition of the playlist features a diverse blend of tracks, including the gorgeous, long-awaited return from Frank Ocean, some bass-heavy trap and grime from Yo Gotti and Boylan and Flowdan, lot’s of […]
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WED. BRIEF: Fender + Apple Music • IFPI, WIN Data Partnership • $15M Juice WRLD Copyright Claim • More
WEDNESDAY 10.23.19
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Spotify is hiring for a Global Head of Podcast Business Affairs who has closed deals ‘with commitments of $20m or more’
Individual will be tasked with securing a global slate of original and exclusively licensed podcasts
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