Variety, Rolling Stone Owner Penske Invest In BuzzAngle To Challenge Billboard Chart Dominance

Penske Media has invested in music charts and data company BuzzAngle Music. Penske owns Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline and IndieWire, and plans to leverage BuzzAngle charts across their properties.

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Pandora Top Spins Cardi B Shakes Largely Male Top 10 With ‘Bodak Yellow’

Pandora is seeing plenty of shakes up these days, with a new rapper from Atlanta making a splashy debut, two fresh faces hitting the country scene, and female rapper Cardi. Continue reading

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This Week In Music Commentary

This week music industry commentators clambered aboard their soapboxes to discuss how music festivals are changing, the quest for consumer data in the music business, why mental healthcare is a. Continue reading

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Music Publishing News Roundup 10.14.16: Dylan’s Nobel • ‘Unofficial’ Content To Spotify, Apple Music • BMI + Song Arts Academy

Bob Dylan becomes the first musician ever in history to earn the Nobel Prize in Literature.  The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature is being awarded to Bob Dylan "for having. Continue reading

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Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize For Literature  "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Bookmakers had put the rock icon's odds of. Continue reading

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Why Would Music Tech Startup BandLab Want To Buy A Stake In Rolling Stone? [Mark Mulligan]

Why would a new model music tech company invest in an old school rock magazine? That’s what analyst Mark Mulligan asked on the news that BandLab had bought 49% of. Continue reading

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5 Tips For Getting Music Bloggers To Write About Your Music

Although the value of a review in printed publications has greatly diminished, bloggers remain a valuable resource for getting your music into the public eye. Here we look at useful. Continue reading

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MON. BRIEF: Singapore Investor Buys Major Rolling Stone Stake • ScoreBig Shuts Down • Snapchat Spectacles • More

Monday 9.26.16 Music Business News From Around The Web  Does a Singapore investor buying 49% of Rolling Stone signal the end of an era or the start of a more global. Continue reading

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The High Wire Of Releasing Music [David Emery]

In this piece, David Emery muses on the changing face of the music industry, and how windowing and streaming exclusives are precipitating gradual but fundamental alterations to the way artists. Continue reading

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Universal Music Wins $20M Global Eagle Entertainment Settlement

Universal Music is $20 million richer today after a settling a 2 year old legal battle with American Airlines inflight entertainment provider Global Eagle Entertainment.

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