REWIND: The new music industry’s last week in review
In this flip back through a full week of music industry news, we revisit Spotify’s buyback of stock as artists call for fairer compensation, New York’s vaccine mandate for live music venues, the strange and wonderful world of weird Spotify playlists, and more!
- Spotify announces $1B stock buyback as artists call for fairer compensation
- New York City issues vaccine mandate for all live venues
- The strange and wonderful world of WEIRD Spotify playlists
- Nerve launches first neobank created just for musicians
- Madonna returns to WMG in a sweeping deal
- DistroKid valued at $1.3B with 2 million artists served
- 3 top record labels now earn $2.56M per hour
- Twitter pauses verifications (again) after giving fake accounts blue checks
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