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Gracenote Partners With Muzooka For Photos, Artist Assets
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Gracenote is now using Muzooka's unified artist asset management platform to help deliver the latest photos and more. Gracenote is a leading provider of music metadata to many top music platforms and electronics devices. With the Muzooka partnership, when an artist or manager updates a photo on the Muzooka platform, that photo will be made available to Gracenote for inclusion across their client platforms and devices. SOCAN and GRAMMYConnect are also among the growing number of music sites and services ...
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Next Big Sound Adds Pandora Streams To Audience Map: Know Where Your Fans Are
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Pandora owned analytics platform Next Big Sound has improved its Audience Map with adding an important metric- where an artist's Pandora streams are coming from. Launched last last November, the chart had previously only highlighted the areas where an artist received Pandora Artist Station Adds over the last 28 days. Station Adds for the last 28 days show growth in an artist's more dedicated fans. Here’s the map of the Artist Station Adds of Yung Booke, an up-and-coming rapper from ...
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2019 Must-Attend Music Conferences
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Music conferences can a be a life changing experience, and the perfect place to educate yourself about the industry, connect with your contemporaries, and make contact with the powers that be. They can also be a huge waste of time however, so we've here provided a short list of must-attend conferences. Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix Not all music conferences are created equal. Some will change your life, but others are a waste of time. Music conferences are ...
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AMLC Makes Case For A More Independent Mechanical Licensing Collective
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The Music Modernization Act calls for the creation of a Mechanical Licensing Collective to oversee the blanket mechanical licenses that the new law established. So far, two groups ave applied to the Copyright Royalty Board, who will chose the new collective in July. One group has been spearheaded by the National Music Publishers Association is made up of industry heavyweights. Another, the American Mechanical License Collective, brings together a more diverse group, no less versed in the world of music ...
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When Do We Become Uninterested In Discovering New Music?
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While music discovery has, in many ways, become easier than ever, a new study suggests that there's a limited period of time in the average consumer's life when they're actually finding new music, and at a certain age 'musical paralysis' sets in and the discovery ceases. Guest post by Fred Jacobs of Jacobs Media Strategies Believe it or not, I still have friends in the record label community, despite my lurid past as “The Classic Rock guy.” And just about ...
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SoundCloud Adds Free Distribution To Spotify, Apple Music To All Pro Accounts
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SoundCloud has added free digital distribution to its SoundCloud Premier monetization toolset. With the new feature, creators monetizing music on SoundCloud can distribute to Amazon Music, Apple Music, Instagram, Spotify, Tencent, YouTube Music and other music services directly from their SoundCloud account. Creators using the SoundCloud Premier distribution feature keep 100% of their rights and 100% of distribution royalties from third-party services at no additional cost. The SoundCloud Premier monetization toolset is available only to Soundcloud Pro and ProUnlimited members. ...
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Article 13 Finalized And It Will Change The Music Industry
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EU negotiators have agreed on the final text of the new sweeping Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market, including language on the contentious Article 13 clause. The finalization of the text was one of the last roadblocks to the approval of the directive by the European Parliament and presaged the commencement of the final stages of negotiation after EU member states voted to use a deal between France and Germany as the basis of the agreement. Safe Harbor Is ...
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Shazam's Hidden Tool
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Most people are familiar with Shazam as the go-to music identification app, but in addition to it's powers of clarification, Shazam also has the ability to show the user top tracks being Shazam'd the world over. Guest post by Jake Udell of Art of Manager You’re already familiar with Shazam. The reason I’m writing about them today is because they have a tool I enjoy that is a bit hidden in their app so I am bringing it to the ...
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