
Your Morning Coffee Podcast: UMG, TikTok battle • $1.38B in Spotify misuse • new Women in Music study • More
Episode 182 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Episode 182 On this week’s episode of the. Continue reading

Is UMG’s battle with TikTok an opportunity for independent musicians?
Universal Music Group is responsible for more than 30% of global music consumption by more than one metric. With all of that music at least temporarily coming off TikTok, does. Continue reading

UMG responds to TikTok’s ‘greed’ accusation, ‘free promotion’ claim [Full Text]
As TikTok’s forced takedown and muting of UMG and UMG Publishing Group-related music began Thursday, the war of words between the two giants took a turn for the worse. After. Continue reading

Universal Music to pull all music off TikTok as deal expires: Full text of letter to artists and songwriters
Universal Music Group and UMG Publishing Group say they will pull all their music off TikTok and the TokTok Music Service worldwide today after it could not negotiate a new. Continue reading

TikTok is experimenting with 30 min videos
Jaws dropped when (formerly known as a short-form video platform) TikTok raised its max video length to 10 minutes. Now, it’s testing three times that, allowing some users to create. Continue reading

Jon Poppii and the Secret to Minimalist Music Video Success
What’s the secret to success for a bare-bones acoustic performance video? That’s the subject of this installment of ‘Why It Worked’ from Chris Robley of ReverbNation, where you’ll learn why when. Continue reading

Top TikTok Songs of 2023 show shifts in music trends
TikTok is its own not-so-little world when it comes to music trends, and those trends can teach us a lot about how music listeners are changing. by Bobby Owsinski of. Continue reading

TikTok adds Artist Accounts and free music marketing toolkit
TikTok has added Artist Accounts that include a free toolbox designed to help musicians succeed on the platform and build a fanbase. Available to any artist or musician that has. Continue reading