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7 Things That Annoy All Talent Buyers
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Talent buyers are busy people, and typically have too much on their plate at any given time to deal with a band or artist who makes any of the following seven mistakes when attempting to contact them. Guest Post by Jhoni Jackson on the Sonicbids Blog In case you haven't considered this before: talent buyers are busy people, you guys. Filling a venue's calendar requires a ton of work: sifting through a perpetually growing inbox of inquiries, reaching out to bands ...
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Is There A Streaming Music Ceiling?
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There's been quite a bit of excited talk lately about how much paid subscriber growth both Apple Music and Spotify have seen, but the reality is that these numbers only represent a small percentage of the music buying public, something which highlights greater underlying issues with paid streaming. Guest post by Cortney Harding Based on recent numbers, it seems streaming services are on the march to domination. Apple Music recently announced that it had 10 million paid subscribers worldwide; Spotify reported 20 million ...
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After Cancelling IPO, Deezer Raises $109 Million In New Funding From Powerful Partners
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One of Spotify's biggest rivals, Deezer looked like it was in a bit of trouble after cancelling its IPO and some unflattering questions about user counts last year. Today, the France based music streamer roared back with some major new funding from some powerful partners. France based music streaming service Deezer has raised 100 million EU ($109.3 million USD) in a new round of funding. The company had previously raised $150 million USD in 3 rounds. Leading the new round ...
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Starbucks Turns Up Volume On Spotify Partnership With Song Saving
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Music has always been an integral part of Starbuck's imaging; and when fans began the shift from physical goods to streaming, the 7500+ store chain partnered with Spotify. All Starbuck's baristas get a free Spotify Premium account and they're using them to create playlists. Now customers who like what they hear, can easily save that song for access later. Starbucks has launched a new digital music experience with Spotify, allowing Starbucks Mobile App customers to immediately save the music they ...
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Spotify Acquries Social Apps Soundwave, Cord Project
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In its drive to compete, Spotify is constantly iterating and adding new features. Usually that's been done in-house or via major acquisitions like The Echo Nest. But now they've taken a different tact, acquiring two social music apps. Spotify has acquried two social music apps Soundwave and Chord Project The Soundwave app, which has been downloaded 1.5 million times, lets users explore music in private groups and see what others are playing nearby. While details of the aquistion were not shared, ...
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Concord Bicycle Music Acquires HighTone & Bandit Records Catalogs
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The Concord Bicycle music group continues its multi-year buying spree of both independent record labels and music publishers with the acquisition of two iconic indies Americana, folk and blues label HighTone Records and country legend George Jones' label imprint Bandit Records. Concord Bicycle Music announced that they have acquired some new assets, including the catalog of storied indie Americana, folk and blues label HighTone Records and in a separate transaction, the recorded music assets of country music legend George Jones' label imprint ...
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Blockchain And A Cryptocurrency Fueled Music Economy
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This article looks at what we've from learned from the era of illegal downloading as well as the evolving role of record companies in a potentially cryptocurrency fueled music economy. Guest Post by Bryce Weiner on Zapchain Digital rights management (DRM) solutions utilizing blockchain technology have long been a dream of evangelists, however nearly every existing implementation doesn't seem to fully appreciate the scale and scope of the problems facing artists. In 2015 music mogul Jay-Z lined up an incredibly impressive ...
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Labels Still Don’t Get YouTube, At Their Expense [Mark Mulligan]
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The consumption of music on YouTube has seen incredible growth of late, but if labels don't update how they're using the platform, they risk of being edged out by YouTube's native content creators. Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on his Music Industry Blog This is the fifth post in my YouTube economy series. You can read the other posts here,here,here and here 2015 was the year that streaming came of age across global markets (it had already got there in the Nordics and South ...
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