Streaming
The paper of record is as out of touch as the Grammys! Never have the labels and the people who run them had ...
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New ‘Friends’ Tab And CEO Daniel Ek Signal A More ‘Social’ Spotify
(Hypebot) — A new “Friends” tab and comments this week from CEO Daniel Ek point to Spotify becoming a much more social platform. ...
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UMG And TIDAL Team Up To Develop An Artist-Friendly Streaming Model
(Hypebot) — UMG is partnering with streaming service TIDAL to develop a new economic model for music streaming “that might better reward the ...
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Spotify Grows To 489M Users, 205M Paid Subscribers As Losses Jump 44%
(Hypebot) — Spotify ended 2022 with 489 million monthly users, including 205 million paid subscribers. But operating costs jumped 44%, and Q4 losses ...
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Lucian’s Letter
“Sir Lucian Grainge: Music Needs a New Streaming Payout Model… And We’re Working On It”: https://bit.ly/3iJw91m The model changed. Used to be the ...
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Libraries Are Adding A Streaming Service That Supports Local Musicians
(Hypebot) — A new platform enables libraries throughout North America to easily launch music streaming services that support local music scenes and pay artists ...
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UK Government Study Concludes Music Streamers Are Not Underpaying Artists
(Hypebot) — Spotify, other streaming music services, and the major record labels are not making excessive profits at the expense of artists, according ...
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Everything Is A Cult
The casual listener is dead. The best analogy is television. Boomers will remember when you watched what was on, even changing channels was ...
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Amazon Music Makes Its Full Catalog Of 100M Tracks Available To Prime Members
(Hypebot) — Amazon Music is making its full 100 million track library available at no additional cost and ad-free to all its Amazon ...
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Which Streaming Music Service Has The Most Tracks?
(HypeBot) — Recently Apple Music announced that it was home to 100 million songs, with 20,000 artists uploading tracks every day. But even ...
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