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YouTube Has Paid Musicians, Music Industry $1 Billion In 12 Months vs $1.6 Billion From Spotify

UPDATED: Amid ongoing label driven furor over the size of payments to musicians and the music industry, YouTube has shared a big number – $1 billion. That's the amount that. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/06/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Amazon Echo, Apple Inc., BreakMedia, Business Insider, Cyber Monday, Google, Google Play, Google Play Music, Spotify, Streaming media, YouTube, YouTube Red

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The Streaming Music Price Wars Have Started

Something many believed to be an inevitable occurrence, it seems the first of the streaming music price wars has broken out. Precipitated by Amazon's joining of the market, other streaming industry major. Continue reading

Guest Post on 12/05/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Amazon Echo, Amazon Music, Amazoncom, Apple Inc., Apple Music, Comparison of on-demand streaming music services, Google Play Music, iTunes, Spotify, Subscription business model

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Baile Funk? Speed Garage? 10 Genres You’ve Never Heard Of Top Spotify’s Emerging Genre Chart

Witch House, World Meditation and Dangdut are among the ten that top the list of new genres emerging in 2016 on Spotify. The music streamer did not share stats, but. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/01/2016 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Amazon Echo, Americas, Android (operating system), Apple Inc., Associated Press, Latin America, music, record label, Spotify, Taylor Swift, United States

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iHeart Puts New Spin On Pandora, Spotify w/Today’s Launch Of IHeartRadio Plus and All Access Powered by Napster

On Wednesday, iHeartMeida launched both the Pandora-like ad free iHeartRadio Plus and iHeartRadio All Access, a full service music streamer. Rather than build their own music service from scratch, the. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/01/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Amazon Echo, Android (operating system), Apple Inc., Apple Music, Google Play Music, iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, IPhone, iTunes, Spotify

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Spotify Discover Weekly Has Helped Fans Unearth 300 Billion Tracks

Included with Spotify's annual lists of artists, albums, tracks and trends that topped the service in 2016, was a note that the music streamer's Discover Weekly playlists had been streamed more. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/01/2016 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Amazon Echo, Amazon Music, Apple Inc., Apple Music, Google, Google Play Music, iTunes, Spotify, Streaming media, YouTube

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Instagram: The Best Way To Reach Music Fans

If you're curious which social media platform is the best one to target fans on, it looks as though the popular photosharing app Instagram may be your best bet, as. Continue reading

Guest Post on 11/28/2016 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Amazon Echo, Amazon Music, Amazoncom, Apple Inc., Apple Music, Google Play Music, Soundcloud, Spotify, Streaming media, YouTube

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Act Fast For Deep Discounts On Soundcloud, YouTube Red, Google Play Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime Music

Most of the top music streamers are offering deep year end discounts on premium subscriptions this holiday season designed to lure new and returning customers. But you'll need to act. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/28/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Amazon Echo, BreakMedia, Business Insider, Google, Google Play Music, IPhone, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube, YouTube Red

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How Become A Verified Artist On Spotify

In this piece, Chris Robley walks us through the twelve steps to becoming a verified artist on Spotify, including attaining the requisite 250 followers necessary for such verification to take. Continue reading

Guest Post on 11/25/2016 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Amazon Echo, Amazon Music, Apple Inc., Apple Music, Germany, playlist, Spotify, Streaming media, Uniform Resource Locator, United States

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REQUIRED READING: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

The most well read articles on Hypebot from the past week included an explanation of why no one is listening to your music, hard rock's strong showing on streaming services,. Continue reading

admin on 11/04/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Amazon Echo, Amazon Music, Amazon.com, Apple Music, Compact disc, Comparison of on-demand streaming music services, Hard rock, Netflix, Spotify, Streaming media

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