by Charlotte Hassan Live Nation is being extra cautious after the T.I. concert shootout… Last week at a T.I. concert, a gunman opened fire at Irving Plaza at approximately 10:15 pm.  That was right before T.I. […]
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My Band Has 1,000,000 Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties?
by This is the largest spreadsheet of Spotify royalty data we’ve received to date. That group that shared these statements was unsigned until just a few months ago, and is fast-rising within a specific EDM niche. […]
Average Annual Earnings by a Spotify Executive: $1.34 Million
by Paul Resnikoff The average Spotify employee makes $168,747 a year. What do their bosses make? Last week, Spotify financial filings for 2015 revealed that the average employee is earning $168,747, with a worldwide headcount of 1,610. […]
Tidal Is Growing Faster Than Apple and Spotify COMBINED
by Charlotte Hassan Tidal subscribers are surging at unprecedented rate… In fact, since Kanye’s album dropped exclusively on Tidal in February, the platform has doubled its subscriber number.  Now, it’s added at least another one million […]
SOCAN Acquires B2B Digital Platform MediaNet
by Charlotte Hassan SOCAN, the Canada-based collecting society, has purchased the B2B digital platform, MediaNet. Who’s MediaNet? MediaNet manages one of the largest global music catalogs of over 51 million tracks (each containing a unique audio identifier) […]
Guess Which Streaming Service Is Planning a $600 Million IPO?
by Charlotte Hassan China wants their share of the music streaming market… According to a report by the WSJ, a China-based music streaming service backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd, plans an IPO in the U.S. Goldman […]
Looks Like Spotify Settlement Checks Are Already Rolling In
by Paul Resnikoff Yes, this is actually a check mailed by the Harry Fox Agency for mechanical publishing royalties.  No, it’s not on behalf of Spotify (yet…). When will songwriters and publishers start to receive back-payments […]
How to Quintuple Your Streaming Royalties In About One Hour
by Paul Resnikoff This is how you can hack your streaming royalties. Earlier this year, DMN starting asking artists and labels to share their streaming royalty statements, which unearthed a pile of incredible per-stream statistics.  That’s […]