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Bruce Houghton on 04/21/2025 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Apple Music Stats 2025 You Need to Know

Apple Music isn’t always first on music marketers minds, even though it has 93 million subscribers and higher payouts than most competitors. Dive into Apple Music stats 2025 plus learn the features that set it apart.

Alana Bonilla on 01/27/2025 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Apple Music has added Radio Monitoring: Track Your Radio Plays

Apple Music has added radio monitoring. Activity on 40,000 global radio stations can now be tracked within the free Apple Music For Artists portal.

Bruce Houghton on 07/29/2024 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Apple Music has added requirements for all new uploaded music

Apple Music has added requirements for all new uploaded music designed to enhance the listener experience. The changes Apple has shared with digital music distributors that all songs uploaded must include both lyrics and one or more of the roles in each of its three contributor groups.

Bruce Houghton on 07/12/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Tidal just made sharing music easier. Will Apple and Spotify follow?

With the addition of universal links, Tidal just made a key avenue of music discovery – sharing music with friends – much easier…..

Bruce Houghton on 03/27/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Free tracking app Playlist Alert adds Apple Music

The Playlist Alert iOS app sends real-time alerts when songs are added to playlists. Since 2021, the popular free app has focused on adds to thousands of Spotify editorial playlists…

Bruce Houghton on 02/22/2024 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (0)
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New Apple royalties favor Majors at the expense of independent artists, say indie labels

indendent labels and artists are upset by what they say is the unfair advantage that Apple Music gave major record labels with its recent 10% increase in royalty payments for. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 02/05/2024 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Apple Music to pay 10% more for Spatial Audio tracks starting this month

Apple Music will pay artists 10% more in royalties on tracks where a Spatial Audio version is available, the streamer said in a memo to labels and distributor partners. The. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 01/23/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Apple Music pays as much as 90% more per stream than Spotify

A new royalty calculator created by consultancy Manatt and endorsed by Billboard shows the gap between royalty payouts by Spotify and those from Apple Music. For example, a song that. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/02/2023 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Manatt’s music streaming royalty calculator is the best we’ve seen

Since streaming services began paying musicians and labels, we’ve seen dozens of calculators purporting to predict earnings, but one just launched by consultancy Manatt looks to be the most up-to-date. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/31/2023 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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