Zane Lowe Goes Daily (Actually, It’s Weekly) On Beats 1 with guests Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Chris Martin

Zane Lowe is launching a weekly show confusingly called the New Music Daily on Apple Music’s Beats 1 today (Friday). The new show kicks off as an ongoing companion to Apple Music’s marquee global new music playlist, New Music Daily. The debut episode (airing Friday, October 25 at 12:00p EST…

FRI. BRIEF: American Music Awards • Zane Goes Daily • Triller vs. TikTok • ‘Behind The Record’ • More

FRIDAY 10.25.19
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After Spotify songwriter fallout, Apple Music inks 3-year deal to support UK’s Ivor Novello Awards

PRS For Music drops headline sponsorship to back two specific awards
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How An Artist Grew To 500,000 Monthly Spotify Listeners Without The Use Of Playlists

In this piece, Ari Herstand walks us through the rise of Virginian hip hop artist Lucidious, and how he managed to go from about 150 monthly listeners to 500,00, without relying on playlist placement. ______________________________ Guest post by musician and author Ari Herstand of Ari’s Take Three years ago the…

Why Streaming Royalties Will Always Stay Too Low To Make A Living Off Of [Video]

Disc Maker’s Tony van Veen details why he believes that streaming services will never pay independent artists enough in royalties for them to make a comfortable living in the way that physical CD sales once did. ____________________________________ Guest post by Tony van Veen of Disc Makers I’m afraid I have…

Fender, Apple Music Partner For Fender Songs App Powered By 7Digital

[UPDATED] Fender has partnered with Apple Music to launch the Fender Songs app which allows users to stream, practice, play along and perform to millions of songs on guitar, ukulele or piano and provides learning paths, lessons with instructors, video-on-demand, chord charts, tablature and more. Users can also reference targeted…

WED. BRIEF: Fender + Apple Music • IFPI, WIN Data Partnership • $15M Juice WRLD Copyright Claim • More

WEDNESDAY 10.23.19
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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

In our flip back through a full week of music industry news, we look back at CD Baby and Dash Go’s expansion into India, Google’s new plan to being linking searches to key video moments, the slashing of music on public radio, and more. CD Baby, Dash Go Expand Into…

TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

Some of the most popular and often read articles on Hypebot this week covered how money flows from music streams into the actual artist’s pocket, the top SEO Google ranking factors in 2020, what songwriters should be doing right now to prepare for the Music Modernization Act, and more. How…

Copyright Infringement Liability In The Music Business

Living as we are in the digital age, any company which plays host to entertainment media on a large is at constant risk of copyright infringement. Whether it’s Spotify or YouTube, difficult challenges will inevitably arise over how to best monitor for and remove infringing content. Here we look at…