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'Basie Rocks' Tops Traditional Jazz Chart At #1 With Vocalist Deborah Silver!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Basie Rocks! debuted at #1 on the Current Traditional Jazz Album Sales chart and #12 on Billboard’s Traditional Jazz Albums chart. The album, released May 2nd on Green Hill Records, was the highest debut for the week's Billboard Traditional Jazz chart. Triumphantly bridging the worlds of rock and jazz, Silver seamlessly swings classics with some of the biggest and most respected names in music today. From her collaboration with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Peter Frampton on “Baby, I ...
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Singer/Songwriter Mark Winkler Tops JazzWeek Chart And Receives Wide Acclaim For 'Late Bloomin’ Jazzman,' His 20th Album, An Homage To Aging
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Mouthpiece Music
Late Bloomin' Jazzman, Mark Winkler’s 20th album, released in April 2022 on his Café Pacific Records label, may be his homage to aging, but the 72-year-old singer and songwriter is not about to slow down any time soon. Each of his previous projects has received stellar reviews and consistently topped the jazz charts, and his latest offering may be his most successful yet. Late Bloomin’ Jazzman spent 11 weeks at the top of the JazzWeek radio chart, peaking at #7. ...
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U.S. Music Streaming Revenue Tops $8 Billion, Up 33%
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HypeBot
On-demand music services including Apple Music, Pandora and Spotify will top $8 billion in revenue in the U.S. this year, up 33% as increased adoption of products like wireless earbuds and smart speakers help drive more music subscriptions, according to a new Consumer Technology Association survey. The growing popularity of music and video streaming services, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled emerging devices and in-vehicle technology will help drive the U.S. consumer tech industry to a record-breaking $401 billion in retail revenues in ...
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SoundCloud Revenues Up 80%, Tops $100 Million
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HypeBot
SoundCloud, the Berlin-based music streaming platform, made good on its promise to bring in more than $100 million for the 2017 calendar year, according a filing with UK Companies House this week. According to the filing, SoundCloud’s global revenues hit $102M in 2017. That’s an increase of 80% over the previous year. The figure also accounts for subscription revenues, which nearly doubled, up 89% to $82M from $43.9M in 2016. Advertising revenues grew 53% in 2017, up to $20M, while ...
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BMI Has Record Year, Revenue Tops $1B, Digital Up 32%
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HypeBot
BMI has reported record revenue of $1.199 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30th. The PRO distributed and administered a record $1.118 billion in royalties to its songwriters, composers and publishers, an increase of $95 million, or 9% higher than the previous year. The $1.118 billion in total distributions includes domestic and international royalties, as well as royalties from direct deals that BMI administers on behalf of its publishers. Distributions from these direct deals totaled $53 million, a $17 million ...
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Pandora Tops YouTube, Spotify In 2016 Music Listening, As Streaming Beats Radio For First Time
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HypeBot
Pandora, YouTube and Spotify combined to capture 72% of all streaming music listening in 2016. And for the first time ever, enjoying music via streaming was more popular than listening to music on the radio, according to a new MusicWatch survey. Pandora continued to be the most listened to music streamer in the U.S. in 2016 with a 28% share of music listening, just beating out YouTube with a 27% share. These new MusicWatch stats combine free/ad-supported versions with paid offerings Spotify ...
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Vinyl Sales Tops Digital Downloads In UK
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HypeBot
For the first time ever, the recording industry made more money from vinyl album sales than downloaded albums in the UK last week. According to figures published by the Entertainment Retailers Association, vinyl accounted for sales of £2.4m ($3m USD), while downloads took in £2.1m ($2.6M). The ERA suggested that vinyl sales were up as they make an appealing holiday gift for music aficionados, but the change also reflects the increasing move away from digital downloads to streaming. As well, ...
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Jazz Near You NYC Tops 1,600 active events -- 52 in one day!
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All About Jazz
Jazz Near You has quietly become the most comprehensive jazz events calendar in the world and is now home to the most active jazz calendar in New York City. Loaded with events... accessible in an instant Listing well over 1,600 active events in July, JNY NYC aggregates events from TicketFly, Instant Seats, Brown Paper Tickets, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Blue Note Jazz Club, NYC metro venues, musicians, and other sources to present a comprehensive calendar that's cleaner, smarter, and more ...
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Shazam Tops 1 Billion Downloads, Achieves Profitability
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HypeBot
Shazam announced that it has has been downloaded more than 1 billion times. The hugely popular music discovery app also joined a very exclusive club: it's a profitable music tech startup. Shazam today announced several impressive financial and user milestones. The popular music discovery app has surpassed 1 billion mobile app downloads and achieved EBITDA* profitability thanks to double-digit revenue growth. That scale has allowed Shazam to transition to advertising as its revenue source. Additionally, there are over 1,800 artists verified ...
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SiriusXM Tops 25 Million Paid Subscribers, 10% Revenue Growth
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HypeBot
SiriusXM is on a tear, and recently the satellite broadcaster made an uninvited advance on Pandora. The music streamer rebuffed the overture, but they may want to reconsider. Their combined platforms plus Pandora's ticketing and soon-to launch music streamer would make a powerful combination. Satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM Holdings (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced this morning that it added a net of 587,000 new subscribers in the 2nd quarter of 2016. It's total subscribers now totals a record high 30.6 million, ...
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