Latin Grammy-Winning Producer Haze Launches House of Haze Label, Management Company

Latin Grammy-winning producer Haze, aka Egbert Rosa, has launched his own label and management company called House of Haze. He is best known as the musical force behind Natti Natasha and Ozuna’s 2017 smash hit “Criminal.” In describing the company’s outlook, Haze said in a statement: “House Of Haze is…

MUSO Raises $1M To Expand Its Live Music Marketplace

Muso has raised $1 million in a seed funding round that will be used to accelerate the growth of its two-sided live music marketplace. Founded in 2018 by co-founders, Jeremiah Siemianow, Brandon Crimmins and Alan Jin the Australia based startup helps up-and-coming local musicians find and book live gigs while…

New Spotify Kids App Launches In Beta

Spotify has launched in beta a new standalone app for children called Spotify Kids. Exclusive to Premium Family subscribers, the new app is intended for children 3 and older. Currently, the app is only available in Ireland and filters out explicit content, in addition to offering kid-friendly playlists that span…

SiriusXM Adds 210K Subs, Pandora Adds Just 33K In Q3

SiriusXM added 210,000 subscribers to its satellite radio service last quarter, while it’s Pandora streaming music service added just 33,000 paid subscribers. By contrast, Spotify added 5 million paid users in the same three months. Shares of Sirius XM declined 0.5% in premarket trading Thursday, on missed profit expectations. THIRD…

Sony Music Revenue Rises 8%

Sony Music reported another round of strong results for the second fiscal quarter of 2019. The division reported an operating revenue of $344 million for the period on sales of $1.4 billion USD, up by 8% in the second quarter when measured against the same period in 2018. During the…

IEBA Names 2019 Tour Industry Award Winners

Live entertainment trade group IEBA wrapped the 49th edition of its annual conference on Tuesday night with the Honors & Awards Ceremony. The awards included the induction of new IEBA Hall of Fame members Joan Jett alongside manager and producer Kenny Laguna, promoter Larry Vallon, Warped Tour creator Kevin Lyman,…

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BUSINESS OF INDIE: Empire plus +1 – Pop Goes Indie – Liz Longley – More

In a new edition of the Business Of Indie, Empire and +1 partner, Pop music goes indie, Liz Longley’s uses Kickstarter to buy back her master and much more. Like Hypebot’s More News section, The Business Of Indie is nestled under its own Indie tab at the top of the…

Canadian Music Publishers Association Unveils Rebrand, Programming

The Canadian Music Publishers Association has today (Oct. 29) announced that it has rebranded to Music Publishers Canada. According to the organization, the rebrand includes a refreshed logo, social media channels and evolving programming. “The new brand communicates our evolving identity as champions of the rights of music publishers in…

Sony Music Launches New Children’s Label Magic Star

Sony Music UK has launched a new children’s entertainment label called Magic Star. Led by former NBC Universal executive Will Speer, the company’s will be to sign and develop artists and branded projects to family entertainment audiences, in addition to working with other Sony companies and their artist rosters. Speer,…