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Songs Are Getting Shorter and Streaming Is To Blame
Songs are getting shorter. The average length of a song on the Billboard Hot 100 fell from 3 minutes and 50 seconds to about 3 minutes and 30 seconds between 2013 and 2018. 6% percent of Hot 100 songs were 2 minutes 30 seconds or shorter in 2018, up from…
Netflix Hits 139 Million Subscribers as CEO Reveals Its ‘True’ Competitors
Netflix, like Spotify, continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. Several days ago, and despite heavy competition in the streaming video space, Netflix raised its prices again. Depending on the plan, the streaming video giant has increased its prices $1 t…
Importance Of Putting Out A Single First, Even In 2019
In this piece, Chris Robley explains why it’s essential for new artists getting their start in the industry to release a standalone single before diving headfirst into dropping a full album or event EP. _____________________ By Chris Robley of CD Baby from the DIY Musician blog If you’ve never released…
Spotify Stock Surging After Positive Valuations
Spotify stock closed Thursday at $133.25 and was up another 2.46% to $136.40 in pre-market trading Friday. That’s a jump of more than 20% since Christmas eve. The price rise comes as multiple analysts see Spotify stock, which soared at high as $198.99 in 2018, is undervalued at current levels….
Scottish investment firm Baillie Gifford owns nearly 10% of Spotify – a stake worth over $2bn
The company had acquired 9.7% of Spotify’s common stock by December 31
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Tinder Adds Spotify Song Sharing So You Can Soundtrack Your Hookup Pitch
Tinder is testing the ability to share Spotify songs in chat with potential hookups. Tinder and Spotify first hooked up in 2016 with the ability to share favorite songs in user profile pages. This data also became part of the algorithm used to surface potential partners. If chosen via a…
Spotify Adds Car View: Helpful But Not Voice Control
Spotify is rolling out ‘Car View,’ a simplified larger print view designed to make it easier for users to control basic functions while driving. The feature is rolling out slowly Android devices. No word yet on when it will be added to the iOS app. Had no idea Spotify had…
How to Build a Sustainable Music Career and Collect All Revenue Streams [Emily White]
EXCLUSIVE ADVANCE LOOK: Emily White has deep first hand knowledge of how to build a sustainable music career from her years an an artist manager, consultant and more. She’s shared some of that knowledge from the stages of countless conferences including MIDEM and SXSW and in a Billboard cover story….
Personalization startup Canopy hires Spotify Discover Weekly creator Matt Ogle and NYT journalist Bassey Etim
Canopy uses on-device machine learning for content discovery
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