Musikbi est un projet qui veut assister les artistes face aux problèmes qui touchent à la piraterie et à la diffusion des œuvres d’artistes africains.

All Africa

The vinyl resurgence should be great for new music, right? After all, who buys records in 2015? Nerds. Curious, acquisitive types.

New Music Box

Floating in Friday’s news dump jetsam was the announcement that Bandpage has been sold to YouTube. Nothing about this is particularly remarkable. A service for artists started. They took millions of dollars in venture money. They sold to a tech giant.

HypeBot

The music business has traditionally taken a hard-line approach to online music pirates. Once upon a time, of course, it sued them directly – but that didn’t work out too well for anyone.

Music Business Worldwide

Not content with becoming streaming’s first billion dollar record company, Universal Music Group posted its biggest annual revenues in a decade last year.

Music Business Worldwide

“We were emerging from this bubble,” she told me, “and I realized, ‘I have this hit. This is going to be good! Nearly three million streams on Spotify!’ And then my check came, and it was for seventeen dollars and seventy-two cents.

The New Yorker

Une nouvelle règle de l’association Américaine de l’industrie du disque (RIAA) inclut désormais les écoutes en streaming dans la prise en compte pour l’obtention d’un disque de certification or ou platine.

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