
Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Culling the long tail • labels v. TikTok • sped up songs • Amber’s toolbox
Episode 118 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart hosted Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business podcast is live. Episode 118 On this week’s episode of. Continue reading

Labels demand a big increase in TikTok royalties but fear angering their new friend
UMG, Sony and WMG are demanding a major increase in payments from TikTok and their negotiations will affect all songwriters, musicians, and labels. TikTok logged $4 billion in 2021, and. Continue reading

Meghan Trainor vs. Sam Smith: Comparing TikTok marketing strategies
Meghan Trainer and Sam Smith both recently released singles that have been hovering all around TikTok. However, each artist took a different approach, leading to different outcomes. Here’s the breakdown.. Continue reading

How TikTok brought Ghost’s track’Mary on a Cross’ back to life
Capitalizing on a TikTok post, the Swedish Metal band Ghost had their first Hot 100 hit with an old psychedelic B-side “Mary on a Cross.” by Maura Johnston of Chartmetric. Continue reading

TikTok is ruining our music attention spans
With short-form video content like TikTok, creators only have a few seconds to grab the attention of viewers, and only a few more to pitch themselves. by Bobby Owsinski of. Continue reading

Instagram passes 2B monthly active users – that’s more than TikTok !?!
Tucked in this week’s not-so-good Facebook earnings call was the tidbit that Instagram now has 2 billion active monthly users (MAUs). “Instagram has more than two billion monthly actives,” META. Continue reading

Inside Big Time Rush’s TikTok marketing success [Case Study]
The Orchard teamed with TikTok to try out their new Super Like feature, with reunited 2010’s heartthrobs Big Time Rush. Here’s how it went… by THE ORCHARD ADS TEAM Goals:. Continue reading

TikTok’s new StemDrop gives artists a fresh chance to earn royalties
This new TikTok feature will give content creators and fans the opportunity to collaborate, make connections, and even make some money… by Bobby Owsinski from Music 3.0. TikTok has announced a new feature. Continue reading

Pinterest adds music from WMG, Merlin, BMG
Pinterest is expanding the music catalog available to users of its TikTok-like short video feature “Idea Pins” via new licensing deals with Warner Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Merlin, and. Continue reading

TikTok Music could change the industry as we know it [Mark Mulligan]
All of this is why a TikTok Music service could be so exciting as it could provide both the creative and cultural context, not just the stripped-down audio file. by. Continue reading