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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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