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Apple Music Shuts Artist-To-Fan Social Platform Connect, Redesigns Artists Pages, Radio

Posted by Hypebot - December 14, 2018

Apple Music is shutting down its Connect artist to fan social platform. Apple’s previous attempt at building a music focused social network, iTunes Ping, launched and shutters in months. Apple…

CD Baby DIY Musician Conference 2019 Moves To Austin

Posted by Hypebot - December 12, 2018

CD Baby’s DIY Musician Conference is moving from Nashville to Austin ” to connect with a fresh community of musicians in another deeply musical city.” Presentations, workshops, mentoring, jam rooms…

Apple Acquires Platoon Emerging Artists Marketing Platform

Posted by Hypebot - December 7, 2018

Apple has acquired U.K. based music creative services and artist development startup Platoon, according to multiple reports. The startup’s co founder, Denzyl Feigelson, is a long time consultant for Apple…

Move Over Majors, Indies Grab 39.9% Label Market Share

Posted by Hypebot - December 5, 2018

A new Worldwide Independent Market report prepared by MIDiA for indie music trade group WIN shows impressive growth in the global independent music sector. Indie revenue grew 11.3% in 2017…

Op Ed: The Ticketing Tides Are Turning For The Secondary Market

Posted by Hypebot - December 3, 2018

The secondary ticketing market has been a problematic feature of the music industry for ages, with online technology transforming it into a multi-billion industry. Now, however, the ticketing industry is…

Spotify, Soundcloud Bot Farms Continue To Manipulate Streaming Numbers

Posted by Hypebot - November 29, 2018

(Hypebot) — Bot farms continue to manipulate streaming stats on Spotify and Soundcloud, a year after the streamers and music industry became aware of them, multiple sources tell Hypebot. The…

Meta Trends That Will Shape Music Industry In 2019

Posted by Hypebot - November 28, 2018

As the music industry closes the door on 2018, some of the promised technologies of the year, like blockchain and AI, hit the world of music with more of a…

Chance The Rapper’s Manager Offers Tutorial In Reinventing The Music Business

Posted by Hypebot - November 28, 2018

Chance The Rapper and Pat “The Manager” Corcoran, two self-taught kids from Chicago, have set the bar for what independent artists can achieve. Chance achieved his success, which includes three Grammys…

For The Young, Music Drives Social Media

Posted by Hypebot - November 27, 2018

It is perhaps unsurprising that music tends to occupy a larger part your life when you’re young. Knowing this, it correlates that social media used by a 13 to 24…

Taylor Swift And The Rise Of Label Services

Posted by Hypebot - November 26, 2018

(Hypebot) — Last week, Taylor Swift announced her new deal with Universal, which included a gift to thousands of other UMG artists in the form of Spotify stock revenue distributions.…

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