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1 Million Subs - Spotify Now Top Paid Music Service
It's official: Spotify now has 1 million subscribers which makes it the largest paid music service in the world. Its closest competitor is Rhapsody at 750,000-subscribers. According to Peter Kafka at Media Memo, Spotify reached this mark about a month ago, but is only now announcing it. This could give the company the negotiating leverage it ...
D.I.Y. Bootcamp: Rightsflow Licensing and Royalty Service [video]
EXCLUSIVE: Scion A/V has produced a video series that provides a tour of the tools that make a D.I.Y. music career work. Hypebot will feature one a day for the next few weeks; and today Michael Kauffman of Rightsflow explains his mechanical licensing and royalty payment technology platform for online music services, record companies, distributors and ...
7 Ways Most Non-Famous Musicians Make a Living
When we think about what it means to make a living as a musician many people still conjure up ideas of selling plastic discs and endlessly touring the country. Well, that's perhaps how things work at the top, but what about near the middle? Suzanne Lainson of BrandsPlusMusic has written a short overview of the more ...
Kazaa May Benefit from New Apple App Rules
Here's a novel theory: Despite the doom and gloom talk in the subscription music sector now that Apple may take a 30% cut of in-app sign ups, one stock analyst says Kazaa may actually benefit from the new rules. So far, Kazaa has been overlooked in this debate, but John Gilliam thinks the on-demand streaming service ...
Admit It, Social Media is out of Control.
If despots can't control social media, how can we expect to? It may seem a trivial comparison, but it is a useful one. In our own little world of music, can anyone really predict, much less guarantee, social success? Messages to fans are re-interpreted in unexpected ways. Facebook, the dominate social channel, is constantly changing the ...
MP3tunes CEO Says "CDs Are Going to Zero."
CNET has a posted a fascinating round-table discussion between MP3tunes CEO Michael Robertson and reporter Greg Sandoval. It starts off talking about Robertson's new venture DAR.fm and quickly shifts into the future of Pandora and subscription music. Some of the points made are well-known, but it's quite interesting to watch the two go back in forth ...
"Ad-Funded" Music? Try "Ad-Fun" Music.
Usually when we think about the ads fans will endure when Spotify launches in the U.S., we think of boring, intrusive ones. Mazda has started a new campaign wherein if listeners click on the ad, they're greeted with the chance to drift with a car at high-speeds and Parallel Park like a mad person. It just ...
$1.25 An Hour - The Biggest Music Download Ever...
Disclaimer: This may not be the biggest music download ever, but it's big. A classical music label in the UK has released The Complete Piano Music, by Franz Liszt; it's a digital version of a 99-CD box set. The download weighs in at about 26GB for the FLAC download, and 12GB for the MP3s. In total, ...
Being Wrong Doesn't Matter, Being Curious Does.
Before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming, i.e. the music industry deathwatch, social media wizardry, and gentle major label bashing, I need to clear something up. Right here. Right now. In the comments, a reader said that if I continue to make bold predictions and declare things “dead" that I'm increasing my chances of ...
