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

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Buyers Remorse After Buying An Album On iTunes? If You Live In Europe, You Can Return It.

How many times have you bought an album only to realize there are only one or two songs that really strike a chord with you? If you bought the album. Continue reading

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Apple Adds Free On iTunes – A Hub For Free Music, Film and TV

There were audible moans when iTunes dropped their popular free weekly download feature. Now Apple has responded with the launch of Free On iTunes a hub for free music, TV. Continue reading

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New Apple DRM Patent Points To Music Sharing, Two Tier Pricing In Beats, iTunes Relaunch

Apple has obtained a patent that could enable music and video sharing and along with other features by adding a new layer of digital rights management (DRM). "The systems and. Continue reading

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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

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Everything Indie Musicians Need to Know About YouTube Music Key

By Keidra Chaney on Sonicbids Blog Recently, YouTube introduced Music Key, a music streaming service that the video hosting company had been hinting at for at least a couple of years. The company has experimented. Continue reading

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LINE Messaging App Acquires Microsoft’s MixRadio

Japan based free call and messaging app LINE has reached an agreement with Microsoft to acquire MixRadio, a free personal music streaming service. With with 170 million monthly active users in. Continue reading

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Our Virtual Panel Looks Back on 2014 – Mike Doernberg, ReverbNation CEO

ReverbNation CEO Mike Doernberg joins us today for Hypebot.com's 2014 Year End Virtual Panel. He discusses the focus ReverbNation has placed on streaming in 2014 and what that means for. Continue reading

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Soundcloud To Join $1 Billion Startup Club With New Funding Round

Music and audio sharing platform Soundloud is in talks to add $150 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation. The new round would more than double the $123 million. Continue reading

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Our Virtual Panel Looks Back on 2014 | Kyle Bylin of Soundhound

Kyle Bylin, of SoundHound, former editor of Hypebot.com and author of Promised Land, a collection of essays on how disruptive startups and digital youth reshaped the music industry from 2008 to 2013, revisits. Continue reading

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