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What YouTube, Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music & Amazon Are Paying Artists In 2018

What YouTube, Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music & Amazon Are Paying Artists In 2018

Daniel Sanchez
April 12, 2018
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Napster, Tidal, Apple Music, and Amazon still have the highest per-play rates.  And don't expect to make much on Pandora, Spotify, and YouTube. How much should artists expect to receive on streaming music pl... Read More...
Latest Industry: Live Nation, Amazon, Ariana Grande, Sexual Harassment, Capitol Music

Latest Industry: MMA, Apple Music Worldwide, GEMA, Live Nation, Amazon, TickPick, Royalty Flow

Daniel Sanchez
April 11, 2018
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MMA fastrack! Looks like the super-sized Music Modernization Act (MMA) is getting fast-tracked — big time.  Just today, the consolidated music legislation received a unanimous 32-0 vote from the House Judici... Read More...
Latest Industry: Amazon Music, Blockchain, Viacom, Sony, BMG, Pay Gaps, Alexa

Latest Industry: Blockchain, Amazon Music, Alexa, Viacom, Sony, BMG, Pay Gaps

Daniel Sanchez
April 4, 2018
Fighting for the CLASSICS. 89 artists have added their names to a petition urging Congress to pass the CLASSICS Act.  If passed, the bipartisan legislation would require digital services to pay both rights... Read More...
Warning: Amazon's Music Storage Service Will Delete All of Your MP3s on April 30th

Fair Warning: Amazon Music Will Delete All of Your MP3s on April 30th

Daniel Sanchez
March 30, 2018
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A friendly reminder: unless you download and save all of your Amazon-stored MP3s, you can bid them farewell – for good. Underscoring the death of MP3 downloads, Amazon Music quietly scrapped MP3 imports seve... Read More...
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Amazon Tickets UK Is Dead. Get Ready for Alexa-Powered Amazon Tickets In 2019!

Lennon Cihak
February 22, 2018
Amazon Tickets' UK window has been closed.  But there's a much bigger bird in the oven. As of February 21, 2018, online e-commerce giant Amazon has closed up shop on its UK Amazon Tickets service. The news c... Read More...
Spotify Is Building Its Own Speakers and a Bunch of 'Hardware Products'

Spotify Is Building Its Own Speakers and a Bunch of Hardware Products

Daniel Sanchez
February 20, 2018
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Can Spotify branch its business model beyond streaming music? Speaking on the state of the streaming music industry several months ago, Jimmy Iovine, head of Apple Music, admitted that his company couldn’t p... Read More...
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Amazon’s Alexa Can Now Create Amazon Music Playlists

Lennon Cihak
February 13, 2018
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Amazon's Alexa is getting more intuitive, especially when it comes to music. Virtual assistance devices are increasing in use.  And they're getting smarter by the minute.   Now, Amazon's Alexa can create pla... Read More...
Underscoring Death of the Medium, Amazon Music Pulls Support for MP3s

Watching a Format Die: Amazon Music Pulls Support for MP3 Imports

Daniel Sanchez
December 21, 2017
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While you can still purchase MP3s from Amazon, the e-commerce giant has started slowly backing away from the format. This year, revenue from streaming music platforms has pushed all three major labels’ finan... Read More...
Spotify & Deezer Call Out Apple and Amazon For "Abusing Their Position"

Spotify Says the Government Should Protect Them from Apple & Amazon

Daniel Sanchez
December 13, 2017
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Have Apple and Amazon truly abused “their advantaged position?”  Spotify and Deezer believe so. Just last month, Spotify Deezer, SoundCloud, and other platforms teamed up to form a powerful lobbying group.  ... Read More...
Amazon Scraps Plan to Compete Against Ticketmaster, Sources Say

Amazon Scraps Plan to Compete Against Ticketmaster, Sources Say

Daniel Sanchez
November 27, 2017
In the end, despite offering venue owners millions of dollars, Amazon found that it just couldn’t compete against Ticketmaster and Live Nation. Earlier this year, Amazon announced the surprise purchase of Whol... Read More...
Now You Can Earn a Living on YouTube Selling Amazon Products

Now You Can Earn a Living on YouTube Selling Amazon Products

Daniel Sanchez
August 25, 2017
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If YouTube isn't paying your bills, maybe Amazon will. To better help social media influencers earn money on the side, Amazon launched their Influencer Program last April.  Accepted influencers could build t... Read More...
Pandora and iHeartRadio Rank As Streaming Favorites For Amazon Echo Users

Pandora and iHeartRadio Rank As Streaming Favorites Among Amazon Echo Users

Daniel Sanchez
February 1, 2017
Image by Rob Albright (CC by 2.0) An Alexa-enabled only device music subscription may help Amazon Music Unlimited route the competition in 2017. Yet, a new study shows dipping numbers for Spotify ahead of the... Read More...
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