Tag: spotify
How Spotify turned dance music into dance muzak
Streaming has spawned a new format for dance music that's hostile to DJs, and seemingly unaware of what a DJ even does.
Should radio pay artists performance royalties?
Congress is rethinking radio broadcasters' longstanding exemption from paying them
Spotify cancels the “dumbest product in the world”
Dropped after just 5 months, Car Thing was another multi-million dollar swindle Spotify chased instead of paying musicians fairly
Outshine: Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag
Hugo LX, Worldship Music & the Return of the Teflon Dons, Cee ElAssaad and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
The price of streaming music is going up
Apple announced a 10% to 12% increase, effective immediately. Spotify is going up in 2023, CEO Daniel Ek said less than 24 hours later.
Wannabe influencers are pretending to be house music producers to get...
Paid-for interviews and profiles were also part of the scheme which involved looping bad electronic music to leverage fake Spotify engagement.
Spotify promotes fan support for artists – to better target their...
The music streaming platform is luring livestreaming artists back from Twitch and YouTube by leveraging fan donations.
#Expansion – Inside the new 5 Mag
Louie Vega's love letter to NYC nightlife, the legend and Gil Scott-Heron collaborator Brian Jackson, Beretta Music and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.
Spotify releases the dumbest product of the year
Did you want better royalties? How about a remote control for your phone instead? Meet "Car Thing," Spotify's latest proof of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Vinyl sales jump 61% in a single year
Vinyl jumps, CDs explode and your digital downloads are getting kinda bummed out. More revelations from the RIAA 2021 annual sales report for the record industry.
Bandcamp acquired by Fortnite’s Epic Games
Shocking the industry, Epic Games - publisher of Fortnite and Unreal Engine - has purchased Bandcamp, the leading independent artist platform. What now?
Spotify has made millionaires. Almost none of them are musicians.
Spotify's Serfs: A new report breaks down the Black Box of Streaming and the brutal financial realities of the music industry's streamonomics.
#Praise – Inside the new issue of 5 Mag
Live from Detroit with Norm Talley & Upstairs Asylum, Lea Lisa, Cratan and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.
Spotify, which pays little, wants to pay artists even less
Spotify's last money-grab from artist royalties alarmed government investigators. Now they're grabbing even more.
Spotify defies expectations and disappoints everyone
Revenues from music subscribers continue to fund podcast spending at the world's largest streaming service.
The Root of the Issue: Inside the New 5 Mag
Monty Luke on BLM, Climate Change and Creating a Catalogue of Black Electronic Music, Brawther cover mix and more inside the latest issue of 5 Mag, out now.
SiriusXM Just Invested $75 Million in SoundCloud
SiriusXM - already the owner of streaming giant Pandora - has made a strategic $75 million investment in SoundCloud. It looks like either SoundCloud is doing great or SiriusXM is getting ready to eat them.
Free Forever or a Free-For-All? Blockchain Streaming with Audius.
Audius is a streaming start up with an ambitious goal: to suck less than SoundCloud.
Spotify May Be Preparing to Raise Subscription Rates
Record labels have long wanted it, and Spotify is said to be planning a new test of higher monthly subscription rates in Scandinavia.
Spotify is Treating Musicians Worse than Facebook Treats Its Users
Why is a music company so eager to make musicians poor? Spotify is taking songwriters to court and claws back millions in "overpaid" royalties.
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The Sound of Tomorrow: Tom Roberts on the launch of Cyphon...
Freerange and Delusions of Grandeur add a new sibling to the label family. Tom Roberts on the launch of Cyphon Recordings.
