This post comes from Engadget. Pioneer DJ wants to make sure electronic artists get paid for the remixes you hear at the dance club. The company's Kuvo entertainment service has partnered with Canada's performing rights organizations (PRO) and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers...
This announcement comes from Billboard. It is our goal at Billboard to accurately portray in an unbiased manner how music performs relative to other music. That job has become much more complicated throughout the years. For decades, there were just physical retail sales and radio airplay, whereas today there are many ways to consume and not...
Over the past few years, more than 300,000 artists, labels, podcasters, and DJ’s have used Audiomack to share their audio for free, without storage limits or premium account fees. We’ve been thrilled to see the explosive growth in our creator community, but we’ve also gotten a...
This announcement comes from Spotify. Today, Spotify launches RISE, a program designed to identify and break the next wave of music superstars. By harnessing its unmatched cultural influence and 140+ million music fans, Spotify will launch these artists of exceptional talent into the world through a dynamic...
We’ve got some exciting news to share: As of today, Spotify for Artists is now available as an iOS app! We’ve created a one-stop shop to track your new music as it goes live, control your presence on Spotify, and learn more about your listeners. Before...
The music industry can be a grueling industry. There’s no doubt that artists, labels, managers, publicists, and other industry professionals run into hardships, what seem to be unobtainable feats, and mishaps every now and then. That’s okay. They will live and learn from their mistakes,...
October 18th, 2017 - Rober Leigh, the founder of Jamvana will be speaking about distribution at Full Sail University. Please come join us tomorrow in Room FS3C-120 from 9AM-11AM EST. We look forward to seeing everyone!...
This post comes from Soundcloud. We know stats are an essential tool for creators, and that’s why SoundCloud’s excited to introduce a new playlist stat, which offers all creators even more ways to understand where their plays are coming from and the people behind them. The new...
This post comes from Deezer's blog. No, vaporwave is not linked to those Vine videos of pimply teenagers making smoke rings with a shisha. Vaporwave is a micro-genre derived from the electronic scene, which emerged in the early 2010s. Yeah, so what? Lots of electro subgenres...
This post comes from SoundCloud's blog. ‘Extended Mix,’ the newest episode from SoundCloud Next Wave, premieres today, featuring the New York-based platform, collective, and booking agency, Discwoman, as well as next-level electronic artist, Bearcat. The episode is the third installment of the mini-docuseries, which aims to shed light on...