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Spotify’s Acquisition Of SoundCloud No Longer Likely
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Although rumors have been flying about Spotify's potential purchase of SoundCloud for quite some time, it looks as though any hopes of such an acquisition have been dashed. Here we look at why. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 It looks like all of those rumors about Spotify buying SoundCloud have turned into nothing more than words on paper. Word is now out that any hopes of a deal between the two companies has been squashed, although months ...
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Music Industry Leaders Offer Their Predictions For 2017
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The team behind the music business program at William Paterson University reached out to a variety of top music industry leaders to get their predictions for the business in 2017. Guest post by Dave Philp from Music Biz 101 at William Paterson University It’s easy to recap a particular year since everything already happened. But what about predicting what will take place in a new year? Yeah, that’s hard. When you think about it, the job of a lot of people ...
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Turning Pennies To Dollars: Increasing The Efficiency Of Royalty Collections
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Although little attention was paid to them in a more profitable era, keeping track of minimal royalty collections has become increasingly important in the music industry, something which is being helped by the emergence of new technological and business related innovations. Guest Post by Antony Bruno of Royalty Exchange During the heyday of the 80s, the music industry was rolling in so much money it could afford to leave some on the table… which it often did. Forget about the ...
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If Music Is Digital Gold , Why Do We Always Treat It Like Digital Plastic? [BENJI ROGERS]
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In the piece Benji Rogers bemoans the devaluation of music, and shares how the implementation of blockchain tech could make it so that ownership data was required for a song to even work, thereby restoring its value to the artist's benefit. Guest post by Benji Rogers of dotBlockchain and PledgeMusic (This is the unofficial part 7 of a series of blogs from the dotBlockchain Music Project. More detailed technical articles can be found on mymedium profile or on our website dotblockchainmusic.com— please also ...
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TuneGO Raises $3.6 Million To Connect Musicians With The Industry
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TuneGO has raised $3.6 million in Series A financing. This is not the first startup promising to connect unknown talent with the music industry's star making machine; and it won't be the last. But investors see something special in the TuneGO team and their use of technology to democratize and enhance A&R. TuneGO has closed a Series A financing round totaling more than $3.6 million. Falcon Capital acted as a strategic adviser in closing the round. No other details of ...
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10 Music Marketing Predictions For 2017 [JESSE KIRSHBAUM]
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2016 was a good year for growth in the music industry, with massive expansion seen on multiple industry fronts. In this piece, Jesse Kirshbaum of looks ahead to what the year 2017 will likely bring for the music business. Guest post by Jesse Kirshbaum of Nu Aency Eight percent. The music industry grew 8.1 percent to $3.4 billion in the first half of 2016 and is on pace to expand for the second straight year. That is fantastic news. That means that after ...
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Nielsen Acquires Gracenote From Tribune For $560 Million Cash To Improve Music, Media Data Measurement
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Nielsen has acquired Gracenote from Tribune in an all cash deal. For the music industry, that leaves its main source of track metadata in familiar hands and the hope of improved tracking across new and emerging platforms globally. Tribune Media (NYSE: TRCO) is selling Gracenote to Nielsen Company (NYSE: NLSN) for $560 million in cash. Gracenote supplies metadata on more than 200 million songs and 12 million movies and TV episodes to Apple, Comcast, DirecTV, Sony, Amazon and others including auto ...
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YouTube, Music Publishers Reach Agreement To Distribute Millions In Unclaimed Royalties
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The music industry seem united in their belief that YouTube should pay more money to creators, but that hasn't stopped them from working with Google's popular video site when they can. This latest deal will result in millions of dollars in previously unclaimed non-performance royalties paid to publishers and songwriters, starting in 2017. The NMPA (National Music Publishers’ Association ) and YouTube have negotiated an agreement to distribute royalties for musical works used in videos on YouTube where ownership was previously ...
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