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Hypebot Is Partnering With The Music Biz Weekly Podcast and I Am This Week's Guest!
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Hypebot is proud to be partnering with the Music Biz Weekly Podcast to help bring this already successful podcast to a broader audience. To celebrate, I joined hosts Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert this week in a wide ranging discussion of streaming, D.I.Y. and state of the new music industry. In episode 272 of The Music Biz Weekly Podcast, I joined hosts Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert to discusses the state of the music business in 2017. We also announced the ...
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Spotify Preps Launch Of Hi-FI Music Tier
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Hi- Fi, Hi-Rez or Lossless. Whatever you want to call it, higher quality music streaming offers a new revenue opportunity for both streamers and rightholders. A new public test signals that Spotify is about to join Tidal in offering a premium hi-fi music tier. Spotify is openly testing a lossless streaming option. Currently called Spotify Hi-FI, the offering became available to select Premium subscribers yesterday as part of a what appears to be an A/B test to determine the best ...
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Sunrise Music Saves 70 HMV Records Stores
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Indie music retailer Sunrise Records announced that they will take over 70 of HMV's brick and mortar retail locations across Canada. The acquisition will significantly expand Sunrise's footprint in Canada. Previously, the music retailer operated nine brick and mortar locations around Ontario. As a part of their strategy, Sunrise will expand each shop's stock of compact discs and vinyl, as well as a broader selection of other merchandise, from apparel to board games and collectibles, the company said. The deal ...
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Sound United (Polk Audio) Acquires D+M (Denon, Boston Acoustics)
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Two of the biggest names in consumer audio Sound United, parent company to Polk Audio, Definitive Technology and Polk BOOM has acquired the D+M Group, owner of the Denon, HEOS by Denon, Marantz and Boston Acoustics brands. The D+M Group is the largest supplier of audio/video receivers worldwide and a leader in wireless multi-room audio. Sound United is the largest supplier of loudspeakers in North America and a leading supplier of sound bars and wireless music systems. The combined company ...
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What The Music Industry Can Learn From The Gaming Industry
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Here Bas Grasmayer explores the unprecedented growth of gamer personalities, the business models they use, and what the music industry can do to learn and directly benefit from the gaming industry and it's marketing tactics. Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer on Synchblog The gaming industry counts as many differences from the music business as it counts similarities. It makes it a perfect teacher when we find the right way to translate their reality to ours. Both industries were in large part ...
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SoundCloud Adds Robust $4.99 On Demand Streaming Plan, But Many Artists Remain Unpaid
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SoundCloud has added a $4.99 per month 120 million track on demand streaming subscription tier that includes most of the features- but not all of the tracks- that it and competitors charge $9.99 for. SoundCloud Go today added a mid-priced subscription plan that takes its free ad-supported on demand 120 million track service offline and ad-free for $4.99 per month. SoundCloud's existing $9.99 premium subscription plan, launched last year as SoundCloud Go, has been rebranded as SoundCloud Go+. With ...
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Music Investment Act Making Georgia Appealing To Musicians
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What a peach. A state that seems to have a firm grasp on the value of entertainment, Georgia is about to pass the Music Investment Act, intended to make the state more financially appealing for artists both to outsiders and those native to the state. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 There are some states in the US that know the value of entertainment and they’re willing to invest in it. The latest is Georgia, which is about ...
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Dart Music Files For Bankruptcy
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Dart Music promised to fix music's metadata problem; first with classical music and then all genres. But after raising $1.5 million, the promising startup has filed for bankruptcy. Dart Music has filed for bankruptcy in its home state of Tennessee. In a press release, the company said it will continue to operate during Chapter 11. But the bankruptcy filing listed debts totalling $2.57 million versus assets of between $50,0000 and $100,000. Included in the debts listed is $33,233 due artists ...
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