Reprtoir Evolves: New Solutions and Pricing Plans Focused on Facilitating Labels and Music Management Companies

Reprtoir is now simplifying its multi-product offering and switching to plan-based pricing with four major tiers. With the B2B shift, Reprtoir’s CMS is now courting bigger companies. Juggling a list of digital chores can quickly become overwhelming for…

Rebeat Says Music Distribution Is Out of Date. But What Does ‘Distribution 2.0’ Look Like?

Digital music distribution is sometimes dismissed as a simple task — even by music industry executives themselves. It’s just a matter of getting music files from point A to point B, with the obligatory metadata and royalty-tracking sprinkled on top. Ev…

Believe, Nuclear Blast Launch ‘Blood Blast Distribution’ — Specializing in ‘Extreme Music’

Is genre-specialized music distribution next? Believe and Nuclear Blast Records are cutting the ribbon on Blood Blast Distribution — for those that prefer the more brutal side of things. Nuclear Blast Records has long been a force in the extreme metal …

End of an Era – CD Baby Shutting Down Its Online Music Store

The end of an era is here – CD Baby is shutting down its online music store at the end of March. CD Baby first launched its online presence in 1998 as one of the first online CD stores for indie artists. Since then, it has become the largest global dis…

Apple Music Has Been Quietly Expanding Its ‘Preferred’ Distributors List – Here’s Who Made the Winner’s List

The Apple Music Preferred Distributors Program continues to grow two years after release. Here’s how things look.  Back in November 2018, Apple launched its Preferred Distribution Program. Three partners were listed as “Preferred Plus&#8221…

Downtown Music Is Going’ Full Stack’ — Acquires Amsterdam-Based FUGA

Downtown Music Publishing’s AVL Digital Group has acquired FUGA, an Amsterdam-based digital-music distributor and service provider. The purchase, which was announced publicly this morning (January 22nd), is the latest in a series of aggressive, g…

Armed With $500 Million, Saban Music Group Inks a UMG Distribution Deal

The Sabin Music Group has announced that it has reached a global distribution and marketing deal with Universal Music Group (UMG), which comes six months after billionaire Haim Sabin pledged $500 million for the new label. The agreement calls on Caroli…

Redeye Signs U.S. Distribution Deal with the Beggars Group, Domino Recording Co. and Saddle Creek

Music distributor Redeye has announced that it has signed U.S. physical media deals with the Beggars Group as well as with Domino Recording Co. and Saddle Creek. Among the upcoming albums included in the deals are: Miss Anthropocene by Grimes Marigold …

Redeye Acquires Border Music

North American independent music distributor Redeye Worldwide has announced that they have acquired Border Music, which is a music distribution company based in Sweden. The announcement was made at the company’s annual Label Hang event in Hillsbo…