Search Results for: "spotify"

Taylor Swift: “I’m Not Willing to Contribute My Life’s Work to an Experiment that Doesn’t Fairly Compensate Artists”

November 7, 2014

from a just-published interview with Yahoo Music... Yahoo Music: That leads to the streaming question. We've played the game of wondering whether you would have sold hundreds of thousands of fewer co... Read More...

An Austrian Journalist Asked Me What I Thought of Streaming. Here’s What I Told Him.

Paul Resnikoff

November 6, 2014

In October, I gave this presentation on why streaming has failed to a group of executives and academics in Vienna. That led to this interview with FutureZone, a massive technology publication and one of th... Read More...

Why Other Musicians Shouldn’t Copy Taylor Swift

Ari Herstand

November 5, 2014

By this point we've heard it all. Every side of the Swiftify spectrum from the haters who gonna hate hate hate hate (sorry had to) to the cheerleaders who blast Spotify every chance they get. To catch yo... Read More...

My Song Was Played 168 Million Times on Pandora. I Received $4,000…

Paul Resnikoff

November 5, 2014

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from an op-ed by Aloe Blacc this morning in Wired... By law, we have to let any business use our songs that asks, so long as they agree to pay a rate that, more often than not, was not set in a free ... Read More...

Apple Users Can Use Rocki to AirPlay to Any Speaker…

Nina Ulloa

November 3, 2014

What's the best way to wirelessly stream music to non-WiFi and non-Bluetooth speakers? There's no one-size-fits-all solution, since everyone has different devices, speakers, operating systems, preferred mus... Read More...

The 10 Most Popular Halloween Songs

Nina Ulloa

October 31, 2014

As one of the most popular streaming services, Spotify has become a pretty good indicator of trends among listeners in the United States. Spotify says that listeners in the United States are responsible for... Read More...

Pandora Unveils AMP Allowing Artists To See Their Data – And It’s Awesome

Ari Herstand

October 23, 2014

It's been a long time coming. This past May at the SF MusicTech Summit I was told by Pandora's VP of Business Affairs, Chris Harrison, that this was coming. An exact date had yet to be announced. Well, AMP was ... Read More...

Jawbone DROPs an Intuitive Social Listening App…

Nina Ulloa

October 23, 2014

Jawbone has released a new social music listening app called DROP. The app was created as a solution for social listening on Jawbone's Jambox speakers, but you don't need any specific hardware to use the a... Read More...

Beatport Acquires and Shuts Down Listn…

Nina Ulloa

October 22, 2014

SFX Entertainment-owned Beatport has acqui-hired social listening app Listn for an undisclosed amount. The app will be shut down on October 30th, and has already been removed from the App Store. Listn's sta... Read More...

14 Reasons Why Music Entrepreneurs Fail…

Paul Resnikoff

October 21, 2014

1. They think people care about music more than they do. Some people eat, sleep, and breathe music, but most do not. They aren't spending hours compiling playlists, they aren't exploring niche bands, they a... Read More...

Google Makes It Easy to Illegally Download 60% of Top-Selling Albums

Nina Ulloa

October 20, 2014

Last week we posted the news that Google is making it extremely easy to search Grooveshark, who has been found guilty of massive copyright infringement. Google has just released a new piracy report, and ... Read More...

How Many Managers Does It Take to Save an Industry?

Paul Resnikoff

October 17, 2014

paper bag, wet. (photo by evan p. cordes (cc by 2.0)) If the major labels have cratered, who gets to fill the void? Perhaps artist managers, a group that sometimes finds itself babysitting arti... Read More...

SRR Capital Launches With a VC-Style Approach to Music Investing

What Is Attribution?

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Indonesia: One of the World’s Most Promising Digital Music Markets

What Politicians Could Learn from the Music Business: A Midterm Election Primer

Taylor Swift: “I’m Not Willing to Contribute My Life’s Work to an Experiment that Doesn’t Fairly Compensate Artists”

An Austrian Journalist Asked Me What I Thought of Streaming. Here’s What I Told Him.

Why Other Musicians Shouldn’t Copy Taylor Swift

My Song Was Played 168 Million Times on Pandora. I Received $4,000…

Apple Users Can Use Rocki to AirPlay to Any Speaker…

The 10 Most Popular Halloween Songs

Pandora Unveils AMP Allowing Artists To See Their Data – And It’s Awesome

Jawbone DROPs an Intuitive Social Listening App…

Beatport Acquires and Shuts Down Listn…

14 Reasons Why Music Entrepreneurs Fail…

Google Makes It Easy to Illegally Download 60% of Top-Selling Albums

How Many Managers Does It Take to Save an Industry?