Pandora And BMI Face Off Today In Court Battle Over Royalty Rates
Today in Manhattan, pioneer streaming giant Pandora is set to meet licensing agency BMI in court to settle a dispute over current royalty rates. The trial will determine how much Pandora pays BMI’s. Continue reading
Music Tech – It’s Been A Long Hard Winter
Guest Post by Cortney Harding on This Week In Music Tech An update on last week’s post: there were some pretty good discussions on Twitter and elsewhere, most of which were civil and. Continue reading
Pandora Earnings Disappoint, Stock Plunges, $439M Paid To Rightsholders In 2014
UPDATE: After falling as much as 26%, Pandora stock rose slightly in after hours trading, settling at $14.90, still down almost 20%. Pandora stock fell on news that the music. Continue reading
Is Broadcast Radio Losing American Teens?
By Kyle Bylin, author of Promised Land: Youth Culture, Disruptive Startups, and the Social Music Revolution. Edison Research, a New Jersey-based market research firm, introduced its “Share of Ear” study. Continue reading
Sony To Close Music Unlimited, Partners With Spotify For New Service
One major sign that a sector is heating up is the quantity and quality of the deal making, as rivals jockey for position. By that, and almost any other measure,. Continue reading
Record Label Exec’s View On New Media Strategy
In this episode of the Upward Spiral, a music business podcast, we talk with Theda Sandiford, who is the VP of Commerce at Republic Records and Island Records, where she. Continue reading
Royalty Exchange Launches ARIA Providing Royalty Insights At Light Speed
Royalty Exchange has launched Accelerating Royalty Insights with Analytics (ARIA), an online tool that allows publishers, songwriters, and artists to calculate how much Spotify, Pandora and other streaming services are paying. Continue reading
Why SoundCloud Will Beat Other Streaming Music Services [Best of Hypebot 2014]
As 2014 comes to an end, we look back at the year's most read posts on Hypebot. This one is by Dan Polaske, an entrepreneur & blogger. Who is the current leader. Continue reading
BandPage Now Powers Direct To Fan Sales Of 3 Million Items On Spotify, Rhapsody, Lyricfind
Has BandPage finally found the gold that musicians have been searching for in music streaming? If you consider the untapped artist revenue now uniquely accessible to BandPage users, the pot of gold. Continue reading
Bop.fm Finally Adds An App [VIDEO]
Bop.fm has launched its first app. Often described as the Switzerland of music streaming, the new iOS app sources and shares music from a variety of sources including Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora,. Continue reading
