Apple Music Passes 50M Paid Subscribers, Biggest Quarterly Music Revenue Ever
Apple Music passes 50 million paid subscribers before the end of 2018, Apple CEO Tim Cook told investors during a Tuesday earnings call. That's up 10 million in the last. Continue reading
How Music and Video Will Rescue Apple [Mark Mulligan]
Music saved Apple’s business back in 2003 when a new iTunes Music Store boosted iPod sales and the entire company, paving the way for the greatest ever period in Apples. Continue reading
Apple Music To Grow To 164M Users As iTunes Crashes [Morgan Stanley]
Apple Music will continue its growth trajectory, according analysts at Morgan Stanley. Over the next five years, Apple Music's 5% market penetration will expand to 14%of a growing user base. Continue reading
Did Chart Topper Kris Wu Just Game iTunes?
Kris Wu, a Chinese-Canadian actor, singer and former member of EXO, topped the iTunes song chart on Monday. For almost 24 hours, Wu had all 5 tracks in the Top. Continue reading
DistroKid Adds ‘Mastered For iTunes’ Service
The "Mastered For iTunes" label is a badge of sonic approval that you see on most major label tracks and almost none from idie and D.I.Y. artists. A new add-on. Continue reading
ALTERNATIVE TAKE: How Recording Industry Hid A New Attempt To Expand Copyright
Some of the new music legislation currently sailing through Congress has received criticism from music rights advocates. Not so with the CLASSICS ACT. But here, Mike Masnick of Techdirt shares. Continue reading
Warner Music Quietly Launches Free Tunecore Competitor
Warner Music Group has quietly launched a digital music distribution service that is a direct competitor to Tunecore, CDBaby and DistroKid. Level Music, which WMG has never announced it's involvement. Continue reading
Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: New Fans • Songwriting Laws • Band Breakups • More
This week on MusicThinkTank, how to market your music to brand new fans, the seven laws of smart songwriting, how to pick up the pieces and make a new when. Continue reading
After Getting Dropped By Your Record Label…
While getting picked up by a label can seem for many artists like the be all and end all, the honeymoon phase following a signing doesn't always last. Here we. Continue reading
