Music’s Superstars Account For Less Revenue Than You Thought

While the music industry's superstars certainly clean up when it comes to live shows and merch, some recent data indicates that, when it comes to album sales and streaming revenue,. Continue reading

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Do Messaging Apps Foretell The End Of Music Streaming Services?

With the rise of apps such as WhatsApp, many people are moving away from larger public social networks in favor of smaller group and one-on-one messaging services. This raises some. Continue reading

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Streaming Music, Social Media And Damned Statistics

The prevalence of on demand streaming services has caused the current generation of listeners to develop an increasingly fickle relationship with both the music they listen to and the artists who create. Continue reading

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On It’s 6th Anniversary, PledgeMusic Shares User Stats, Success Rates

PledgeMusic turned 6 this year; and  in a thank-you post to their community of artists and music fans, co-founder and CEO Benji Rogers shared some never before released stats that. Continue reading

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AM NEWS BRIEF: Deezer Adds Podcasts • Spotify Effect Reexamined • Sony Finds Profits • BMG Ascends • More

Thursday 10.29.2015 Are podcasts really streaming music's killer app? Music Business News & Views From Around The Web Updated continuously under our More News tab. CLICK HERE 

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New Study Says Streaming Music Is Revenue Neutral

Traditional wisdom goes something like this: streaming is killing the music industry because it does not return enough revenue to artists and labels to replace the money lost from falling. Continue reading

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Could Adele Be The Last Hurrah Of The Album Era?

As the listening public waits with baited breath for the release of Adele's upcoming album '25,' the question is being raised as to how much longer even superstar artists like. Continue reading

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TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

For some of the most popular posts this week, we're looking at a new dedicated Spotify site which allows you to identify which artists you discovered before they hit it. Continue reading

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Remember eMusic? It’s Just Been Acquired By TriPlay

eMusic was one of the first digital download stores. Once a haven for indie music lovers, eMusic has been a third tier player of late, as other download stores and. Continue reading

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Is Samsung Buying Jay Z’s TIDAL?

A series of early mis-steps may have left Jay Z wondering what he'd gotten himself into when he bought and renamed the streaming music service now known as TIDAL.  But. Continue reading

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