Amazon Music has announced a new developing-artist promotional program, Breakthrough, that will aim to help musicians achieve mainstream popularity. Amazon Music detailed the comprehensive artist-support resource today, via an official release. Breakthrough will market a rotating […]
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Want Your Music In a Major Gaming Series? Meet the Guys Who Create Their Soundtracks
Music licensing and distribution platform Songtradr recently hosted their fifth “Happy Hour†livestream event, Music for Gaming: What’s Working + What’s Ahead. The hour-long sit down invited two of today’s foremost video game sync professionals and […]
Live Nation Says 90% of Ticketholders Aren’t Requesting Refunds to Postponed Shows
In its Q1 2020 earnings report, Live Nation indicated that over 90 percent of ticketholders have decided to keep their tickets for postponed shows as opposed to requesting refunds via the Ticket Relief Plan. The […]
Warner Music Reports $74 Million In Quarterly Losses But Streaming Up 11%
Warner Music Group (WMG) lost $74 million during this year’s first three months (the company’s second fiscal quarter), due in part to issues stemming from the novel coronavirus crisis. But its streaming revenue experienced an […]
Apple Makes More Money From AirPods Than Spotify Makes From Its Entire Business
A new report from analyst Kevin Rooke is indicating that Apple’s revenue from AirPods exceeds that of Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify combined. In his report, Rooke presented the following graph to show just how […]
Spotify Will Pause All Political Advertising Starting ‘Early 2020’
Spotify political ads sales will be suspended in ‘early 2020.’ Spotify says it doesn’t have the resources to properly vet political ads. Spotify will pause political advertising across its ad-supported tier and its exclusive podcasts. […]
TuneIn’s Legal Battle With Sony Music, Warner Music Heading Toward Appeal
TuneIn announced that it has gotten approval to appeal last month’s decision in a U.K. court that found that it infringed on the copyrights of Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music U.K. On November 1, […]
UMG Releases Analytical Tool for Artists
Universal Music Group (UMG) has just released a new app for its artists that will provide them and their management teams both analytics from the leading music streaming services as well as insights from the […]