Indie Distributors, Spotify & Amazon form Music Fights Fraud taskforce
Spotify and Amazon Music have joined forces with independent distributors CD Baby, TuneCore, their respective parent companies Downtown and Believe, DistroKid, Symphonic, EMPIRE, UnitedMasters, and Vydia to form Music Fights. Continue reading
Are ‘Walk-in Fees’ a solution to unsustainable songwriter royalties?
“The money earned as the co-writer of a song on a platinum track didn’t even cover the £200 it cost to get an official award plaque to hang on the. Continue reading
How to turn listeners into fans: tips from an expert
Aileen Crowley, an expert in the music streaming business, talks about how to use market strategy to convert your listeners to fans. By Rutger Ansley Rosenborg from Chartmetric’s How Music. Continue reading
Spotify increases penalties for paid, artificial streams [VIDEO]
Spotify is ramping up its campaign to keep fake streams off the platform and punish artists, managers, and labels that pay companies to artificially inflate streaming numbers. Spotify used a. Continue reading
Spotify Is Live In Russia + 12 New Markets
Spotify has launched its music streaming service in Russiam Tuesday as rumored along with 12 other markets Russia is the fastest-growing international market for music globally with streaming the choice. Continue reading
Triller Passes 26.5M US Users, Adds Partners Snoop Dogg, The Weeknd, Marshmello, More
Triller, the rapidly growing music social video platform and TikTok rival has announced a mega-roster of new investors and partners. Triller’s new backers include Snoop Dogg, The Weeknd, Marshmello, Lil. Continue reading
2019’s Biggest Streaming Earners (So Far)
While streaming has remade the economic landscape of music and made earning a living harder for many musicians, some of the industry's biggest stars are still managing to bring in. Continue reading
Building Passionate Clusters Of Fans: Niche Is Music’s New Mainstream says MIDiA’s Mark Mulligan
In an increasingly fragmented music landscape where algorithms and streaming emphasize songs over albums and artists, success – even on a global scale – is found in the niches, says. Continue reading
Facebook Could Be the Future of Social Music, But Isn’t Yet [Mark Mulligan]
In an ere where almost everything is billed as "social," streaming music is a surprisingly outlier. Given music's power to bring people together, streaming would seem ripe as a social. Continue reading
