by Daniel Adrian Sanchez Drake’s rolling in 3 billion views on Spotify. According to Music Ally, songs on Drake’s album Views surpassed 3 billion total streams on Spotify. As of writing, the tally stands at 3,056,324,234. […]
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Is SoundCloud Worth An Investment of $1 billion?
by Paul Resnikoff Bloomberg says SoundCloud wants $1 billion.  The Financial Times says that Spotify is making an offer.  But is this company worth it? So, SoundCloud is now considering an acquisition offer from Spotify, […]
Microsoft Groove Is Paying Artists $4.67 *Per Stream* Right Now
by Paul Resnikoff You might want to start working on your Microsoft Groove account (hint: NOW…) For the past year or so, Digital Music News has been publishing streaming royalty statements shared by artists and labels.  Since the […]
Apple Music Proposes Increased Songwriter Royalties, Can Spotify Survive?
by Charlotte Hassan Apple Music plans to significantly increase songwriter royalty rates. In a recent proposal to the US Copyright Royalty Board, Apple suggests that the royalty rate should be set at 9.1 cents per […]
Spotify Is About to Crush That $200 Million Class Action Lawsuit
by Paul Resnikoff $5 million later, Spotify seems to be walking away clean. It now looks like Spotify is soundly defeating a $200 million class action lawsuit from songwriters and publishers.  Initially, Spotify faced a scary, $150 […]
Spotify – Facing Possible Patent Troll Lawsuit
by Charlotte Hassan Spotify is facing yet another lawsuit…but this time it’s over trademarks and patents. Today, a lawsuit was filed against Spotify by Post Media Systems LLC.  Post Media claims that the streaming service breaches […]
Troy Carter – Ditches Artist Management To Help Spotify With Artist Exclusives
by Charlotte Hassan Spotify needs an emissary.  Is Troy Carter the guy? Spotify has another idea for increasing subscriber growth and warming icy artist relations.  The platform is now hiring Troy Carter — formerly Lady Gaga’s […]
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 […]
