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Thanks Alexa, Music Streamers See Lift From Amazon Echo

With more than 14 million consumers in the US now users of an Amazon Echo device, the conversation has once again shifted to music in the home, and whether Amazon. Continue reading

Guest Post on 02/02/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Alexa Internet, Amazon Echo, Amazon.com, Amazoncom, Android (operating system), Smarthome, Star Trek, Television, Time (magazine), TuneIn

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Spotify, Playlists and Profitability: On Playing The Long Game

Lucas Gonze shares his response to Mark Mulligan's piece on why Spotify struggles with profitability, and takes a look at what the streaming service's most logical path forward may be. Continue reading

Guest Post on 02/01/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (3)

Tags: Alan Cross, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Billboard Magazine, Grammy Award, Netflix, Prince (musician), Spotify, Streaming media, Tidal (service)

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WED. BRIEF: Pandora Joins Immigration Fight • DotBlockchain Phase 2 • Ticketfly, Lyte Partner • More

Wednesday 2.1.17 Music Business News From Around The Web It is encouraging to see music and tech coming together to fight Trump's anti-immigration actions. Next up: net neutrality. Updated continuously. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 02/01/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Aaron Levie, Ad Insertion, AOL, Arrest, business, Donald Trump, Mailing list, San Francisco, Small business, Twitter

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Projecting Trends: The On-Demand Economy In Music

How has the rapid onset of an on-demand music economy affected the music industry? Here Bas Grasmayer digs into how several innovative new startups in the music industry are working. Continue reading

Guest Post on 01/31/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Android (operating system), Carpool, Google, Google Maps, Google Maps (mobile application), Hailo, IOS, Lyft, Maps app, Uber (company)

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Billboard Adds Pandora To Chart Data

Slowly, the Nielsen Billboard charts are evolving to reflect how people actually consume music in 2017. The latest data to be added comes from Pandora.

Bruce Houghton on 01/30/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (3)

Tags: Big Sean, Billboard Hot 100, Billboard Magazine, Detroit, Drake (musician), Ed Sheeran, Lil Wayne, Migos, Nicki Minaj, Rae Sremmurd

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Purple Spotify Billboards Point To Prince Streaming Release

Purple Spotify billboards have been spotted in the New York subways. While they include no specific message, they likely signal the anticipated release of the Prince catalog to steaming services.. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 01/30/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Grammy Award, Internal Revenue Service, L. Londell McMillan, Michael Jackson, Prince (musician), Roc Nation, Spotify, Tidal (service), Universal Music Group, YouTube

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How Can We Attract More Women To The Music Industry?

Is there a gender problem in the music industry? How can it be solved? Here Rhian Jones travels to the Association of Independent Music to gain further insight on the. Continue reading

Guest Post on 01/30/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (3)

Tags: 2016 Brit Awards, Afro-soul, British Phonographic Industry, London, Love song, music industry, music video, UK music, United Kingdom, Universal Music Group

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CHANGES @ Warner Chappell • INgrooves • Proper • Pledge Music • Deezer • More

Warner/Chappell Music announced a worldwide publishing agreement with hot UK grime songwriter, DJ, and producer Swifta Beater. MORE:

Bruce Houghton on 01/30/2017 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Artist, Chief technology officer, Fontana Distribution, INgrooves, Kevin Scott, LinkedIn, Microsoft, PledgeMusic, Universal Music Group, Vice president

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Day The Music Died In Canada: HMV Bankrupt, Closing All 102 Stores

January 27th is being called "the day the music died" by many Canadians. That's the day that an Ontario judge approved bankruptcy for Canada's largest music retailer HMV.

Bruce Houghton on 01/30/2017 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: 1080p, Airplay, Baby talk, Bang & Olufsen, BBC, Bluetooth, Business Insider, Compact disc, Gramophone record, iTunes, music

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This Week In Music Commentary

In our music commentary section this week, industry experts voice their opinions how music must compete in the 'attention economy', the scarceness of artificial scarcity, and why not all art. Continue reading

admin on 01/29/2017 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Account-based marketing, Antisemitism, Attention economy, Attention span, Billboard Magazine, CC BY 2.0, Mark Zuckerberg, Mass media, music, News satire, social media

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