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Spotify has just crossed a massive milestone: 150 million active users worldwide.  It’s also rapidly approaching 65 million paying subscribers. Here’s another reason why Spotify is fighting back against music publishers.  They’re monstrously huge!  Which means […]
SoundCloud may need more than its $170 million ’emergency funding’ pile to survive.  According to financial projections and filings shared with Digital Music News, this is gonna take awhile. Should they have let it failed? […]
The music industry’s $10 billion darling isn’t from Sweden.  And it isn’t from America, either. According a new report published by Bloomberg, there’s a music company that is actively seeking funding at a $10 billion […]
Words By: Wendy Day How to Market Yourself as a Hip-Hop Artist Marketing is the overall image and awareness that is put forth by your brand as you advertise, promote, do interviews and basically spread […]
Why Bloggers May Not Be Responding To Your Emails… At some point in your career as an Independent artist you have attempted to get your music to every music blog you can find. Only to find out that most of your […]
It’s an entire underground economy that nobody likes to talk about.  Especially the people making billions off of it. Delve into the music industry’s sordid past, and you’ll find tawdry details of mobbed-up labels and […]
One way to sum up Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel’s attitude: ‘What, me worry?’ Building a business model around filters with dog noses doesn’t turn a profit.  Just ask Snapchat.  Two months ago, Snapchat’s parent company […]
Sony Music Entertainment is going shopping (again)!  After gaining full-blown ownership over The Orchard and Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the Tokyo-based label is ready to drop some serious cash on Believe. With streaming exploding, what’s a […]