‘A New Standard for Transferring Music’
Sound Credit CEO Gebre Waddell pictured at the 65th Grammy Awards, where he announced a $30 million advance facility for North American users’ neighboring rights royalties Sound Credit’s Version 6 brings decentralized architecture, enhanced collaboration tools, AI-powered data enrichment, improved contract and catalog management, expanded export options, and many other features. Their goal: capture more […]
Spotify for Artists Breaks Down your ‘Active Audience’
Photo Credit: Spotify for Artists Spotify for Artists breaks down your ‘active audience’ — but provides no way to communicate with them. Spotify has added a new metric to its Spotify for Artists dashboard, “Active Audience,” a new methodology for showing analytics on people who have actively streamed an artist’s music in the last 28 days. The […]
Twitter Will Remove Legacy Verification on April 1 — Why?
Photo Credit: Thomas Hawk / CC by 2.0 Twitter announces it will be winding down its legacy verification program and removing legacy verified checkmarks on April 1 in favor of its paywalled Twitter Blue. Twitter announced the end of its legacy verification program on April 1, when the company will remove legacy blue checkmarks — those that […]
SiriusXM Lays Off 475 Staff Across ‘Nearly Every Department’
Photo Credit: SiriusXM In December, reports suggested that SiriusXM was preparing to reduce the size of its team after suffering a third-quarter subscribership decline. Now, with paid promotional subscribers having also fallen during Q4, the Pandora parent has laid off 475 employees. SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) CEO Jennifer Witz revealed the unfortunate news via a public […]
How Do I Create a Spotify Playlist to Share Music with My Friend?
Photo Credit: Spotify Looking for a unique way to share your music tastes with a friend? Create a Spotify Blend playlist using your favorite songs. Curious what your friends are listening to? Want to share your music tastes with someone else? Spotify’s Blend feature automatically creates a curated playlist shared between people that updates daily. […]
What Will AI Mean for the Future of Music?
Photo credit: Possessed Photography Artificial intelligence can now create music. Yes, the quality of AI music right now kind of sucks, but it will only get better over time and as people use it more. So what does this mean for the future of the music industry? What does it mean for your music career? […]
Is Spotify Launching a TikTok-Like Vertical Swipe Homepage?
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Is the 100,000 Tracks A Day Uploaded to DSPs Inflated?
Photo Credit: Midjourney / CC by 4.0 Are We Seeing 100,000 Music Tracks a Day Added to Digital Streaming Providers? Universal Music Group and Sony Music executives have recently claimed that around ‘100,000 tracks a day’ are being uploaded to digital streaming providers (DSPs) like Spotify. But is this really the case? Glenn Peoples from […]
Spotify Adds Ability to Exclude Playlists from Your ‘Taste Profile’
Spotify is giving its users more control over their music recommendations with the introduction of a new feature that allows them to exclude certain playlists from their Taste Profile. This means that sleep playlists, kids’ nursery rhymes, and more won’t be influencing their actual music preferences. “We understand why you might not want kids’ music […]
Why Isn’t Spotify Raising Prices? — ‘Competitive Weakness’
Photo Credit: Aidan Bartos With music streaming prices going up, why isn’t Spotify raising prices? One analyst says it’s because Spotify is at a competitive weakness compared to its rivals. According to New Constructs CEO David Turner, keeping prices low is simply Spotify’s survival strategy against its rivals. “It speaks to the relative competitive weakness […]
