Search Results for: "spotify"

“AOL Music Is Shutting Down. We All Just Got Laid Off…”

April 26, 2013

The following is a developing story. Please check back for updates throughout the week, including any official confirmations or announcements from AOL. _________________________ Last year, Digital Music New... Read More...

Also: RIP George Jones, Justin Bieber Smokes Dope, Snoop Lion Goes 3D, Vibe Acquired, CD Devaluation, Deezer’s Cache, A Play on Playlisting…

Paul Resnikoff

April 25, 2013

Legendary country music icon George Jones has now passed away. Jones, whose influence is far-reaching across the genre, died at 81 after being admitted for irregular blood pressure. I blame Universal Music ... Read More...

Congratulations: The Music Industry Is Now ‘Napster-Proof’

Paul Resnikoff

April 25, 2013

It's a scary question that pops up from time to time... When's the next 'Napster Moment'? You know, that out-of-the-blue technology that shocks the industry, dismantles our carefully-crafted business models o... Read More...

What Else? Local Radio Freedom Act, Record Store Day, A Diamond In Boston, Get Lucky, Napster.fm, Apple’s Plunge, More Glee…

DMN Staff

April 22, 2013

Will big radio ever be forced to pay recording royalties in the US? Increasingly, the answer seems to be no. Over the weekend, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) confirmed the addition of seven ne... Read More...

What Else? YouTube Wins Again, Tastebuds.fm, Music Mastermind, SF Musictech…

Paul Resnikoff

April 19, 2013

And the biggest news over the last 24 comes from YouTube, which scored yet another damning legal victory over Viacom. Earlier, Viacom revived its case at the appellate level by pointing to possible knowledge o... Read More...

If Only the Tech Industry Understood the Music Industry They Want to ‘Replace’…

Helienne Lindvall

April 18, 2013

Another day, another muppet claiming to have replaced the music industry. This time it's Vikram Kumar, CEO of Mega, the new cloud storage dreamt up by the self-proclaimed artist rights champion, Kim Dotcom (cur... Read More...

What Else? Bleecker Bob’s, Bandsintown Is Big, Shocking iTunes Stats, ASCAP vs. Pandora, $oundExchange, Grooveshark Grilling, Deezer, Aereo…

Paul Resnikoff

April 16, 2013

Daddy, what's a record store? Sounds funny, unless you're a dad who's actually heard that question. Which brings us to Bleecker Bob's Records, the latest brick n' mortar relic destroyed by digital disru... Read More...

A Majority of the Top-Grossing Apps Are Now ‘Freemium’…

Paul Resnikoff

April 15, 2013

This is exactly the reason why Spotify wants to add a free streaming tier to its mobile app. And, why they're willing to pay a very handsome price for the privilege. According to a recently-released study fro... Read More...

What Else? $ongza, Twitter Music, Bloom.fm, Chi Cheng, Sir Colin Davis, Anti-Thatcherism…

Paul Resnikoff

April 15, 2013

And the latest juicy round goes to Songza, to the tune of $3.8 million according to just-filed SEC documents. The investor(s) aren't known, though Amazon has been a longtime benefactor (and rescuer of Songza's... Read More...

We’re CD Baby. And We Want to Fix the Songwriter Royalty Mess, Once and for All…

Paul Resnikoff

April 14, 2013

Please file under: 'Solutions'. The following comes from CD Baby president Brian Felsen, who has an ambitious plan to help independent songwriters get paid on all their global activity. Whenever music is u... Read More...

Pandora Executives Have Now Cashed Out $87.6 Million In Shares…

Paul Resnikoff

April 9, 2013

The word on Wall Street is that Pandora has killed Spotify's chances of having a successful IPO, thanks to a combination of heavy and continued losses, bad stock performance, and insane cashouts. A big problem... Read More...

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

What Is Attribution?

So Busy With "The Quiet Time..."

Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. YouTube Changed the Rules.

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

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

“AOL Music Is Shutting Down. We All Just Got Laid Off…”

Also: RIP George Jones, Justin Bieber Smokes Dope, Snoop Lion Goes 3D, Vibe Acquired, CD Devaluation, Deezer’s Cache, A Play on Playlisting…

Congratulations: The Music Industry Is Now ‘Napster-Proof’

What Else? Local Radio Freedom Act, Record Store Day, A Diamond In Boston, Get Lucky, Napster.fm, Apple’s Plunge, More Glee…

What Else? YouTube Wins Again, Tastebuds.fm, Music Mastermind, SF Musictech…

If Only the Tech Industry Understood the Music Industry They Want to ‘Replace’…

What Else? Bleecker Bob’s, Bandsintown Is Big, Shocking iTunes Stats, ASCAP vs. Pandora, $oundExchange, Grooveshark Grilling, Deezer, Aereo…

A Majority of the Top-Grossing Apps Are Now ‘Freemium’…

What Else? $ongza, Twitter Music, Bloom.fm, Chi Cheng, Sir Colin Davis, Anti-Thatcherism…

We’re CD Baby. And We Want to Fix the Songwriter Royalty Mess, Once and for All…

Pandora Executives Have Now Cashed Out $87.6 Million In Shares…