Tag: Jonathan Prince

Troy Carter Denies Spotify Exit, Admits To Disagreement

After Spotify announced a new "Hate Content and Hateful Conduct" policy last week that resulted in R. Kelly and others being downgraded on the platform, the rumor mill went into. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/21/2018 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Artist, Billboard Magazine, Content (media), Discover (magazine), Jonathan Price, Jonathan Prince, Music Ally, R. Kelly, Spotify, Troy Carter (music industry)

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Streaming Exclusives Are Done: What Comes Next? [Cortney Harding]

Although the recent wave of much-loathed platform-exclusive releases seems to be coming to an end, the question still remains of what will come next for streaming platforms and consumers.

Guest Post on 09/08/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Music, Def Jam Recordings, Frank Ocean, IPhone, Jonathan Prince, Kanye West, Spotify, Streaming media, Universal Music Group

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Apple For Locking Out Rivals, Spotify Agrees

Spotify has given a big thumbs up to a speech by US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D MA) accusing Google, Amazon and particularly Apple of working to “snuff out competition.” Apple, says. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/30/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: App Store (iOS), Apple Inc., Elizabeth Warren, Federal Trade Commission, Google, IOS, IPhone, Jonathan Prince, Spotify, Streaming media

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Free Streaming: A Musician’s Saving Grace?

Some of the industry's most vocal commentators have decided that streaming offers little to no benefit to artists, unless they've achieved a level of stardom where earning money from streaming is. Continue reading

admin on 12/17/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Financial Times, Jonathan Prince, Lucian Grainge, music industry, Online advertising, record label, Spotify, Taylor Swift, The Wall Street Journal

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Music Marketing In The Modern Era

[UPDATED] By Mike Gendel. As 2014 comes to a close, musicians can find little to be optimistic about. The decline in sales continues and it appears that the only album. Continue reading

Guest Post on 11/26/2014 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Bellagio (resort and casino), Big Machine Records, Billy Bragg, Chip Reese, Daniel Negreanu, Facebook, Google, Jack McClelland (publisher), Jonathan Prince, List of online music databases, Mashable, music industry, record label, Scott Borchetta, Spotify, Taylor Swift, Time (magazine), YouTube

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Spotify Says They’d Pay Taylor Swift $6 million, Label Says She Got Just 12% Of That

While the initial burn of Taylor Swift pulling her music from one of the industry's leading streaming services may be cooling slightly, the long distance conversation between Scott Borchetta, the CEO. Continue reading

Nia R Jones on 11/14/2014 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: Artist, Big Machine Records, Jonathan Prince, music industry, record label, Scott Borchetta, Spotify, Streaming media, Taylor Swift, Vevo

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