Are TikTik Song IDs accurate? Pex examined 141,000 songs on TikTok and found 2.8 million unique Song IDs and over 830 million videos containing these songs.

How much will TikTok cost musicians with the looming take down of millions of tracks on independent labels?

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For more than 10 years Meddling has provided data tools for A&R professionals. Now the company is launching a free A&R listing service for artist signings and label departures.

The social media 80/20 rule is deceptively simple: 80% of your posts should be engaging content and 20% should be promotional content. Put another way, if you want to keep fans engaged, no more than 20% of posts should “sell.”

Episode 219 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE.

On a week when 2 Live Crew fought and won back their rights and royalties, this week’s Hypebot Flashback Friday revisits a study by Stanford University that shows that bands that split royalty income evenly are more successful.

A new investigative report by ABC News purports to show that Live Nation exploits artists and regularly rips off fans with the help of ticketing arm Ticketmaster.