Now There’s Another Free Competitor to CD Baby, Tunecore, and Distrokid

Amuse is a reimagined record label that just raised $15.5 million in Series A financing.  And they’re offering every single artist free distribution — plus analytics. The record label survived the great cataclysmic shift from analog to digital.  …

Sound Royalties Launches New Program to Help Distributors Fund Indie Labels

Through the Edge Funding Program, Sound Royalties gets indie labels the cash they need to protect their content without any interest. Sound Royalties, LLC, a specialty music finance company, has introduced a new financial product that enables distribut…

Musicinfo Just Launched Its Distribution Services In China

Musicinfo has now launched their new distribution services in China.  Now, musicians can distribute their music to more than 20 of China’s largest streaming services such as QQ Music, Kugou, Kuwo, NetEase, Baidu Music and more. The following comes from…

Tidal Will Debut a Brand-New Prince Album In 2019 — That Is, if Tidal Exists In 2019

The battle is over between The Prince Estate and Tidal.  Now, the only thing Tidal needs to do is survive. Good news for fans of Prince! The Prince Estate and Tidal have jointly announced the exclusive debut an unreleased album by The Artist in 20…

Christina Grimmie’s Family Releases Original ‘Little Girl’ Track for Mother’s Day

Christina Grimmie’s ‘Little Girl’ tells a supporting love story between a mother and daughter. “Little Girl,” a now-released original by the late star, is about the support between a mother and daughter.  At the age o…

China’s NetEase Cloud Music To Launch BTS’ Entire Repertoire Of Songs

NetEase Cloud Music just made a serious Kpop content acquisition. We’ve been watching a jaw-dropping transformation in the Chinese digital music market over the past few years.  We’ve even met — incredulously — with ambitio…

Why Can’t Artists Link to Their Websites on Spotify?

Artists can now put social media profiles, tour dates, and image galleries into Spotify. But why no website links? Spotify has an extremely intuitive user-interface. It’s easy to use, effective, and extraordinarily simple. Additionally, fans are …

Digital Music Distributor Gets $4 Million In Funding — 11 Years After Starting

It’s the least sexy way to grow a business.  But after nearly 11 years of bootstrapping, Symphonic Distribution has $4 million in funding. Hang around the music tech space long enough, and you start to see some patterns.  One of those is the heav…

Songtradr Expands Its Reach Into Hundreds of Thousands of Stores

Songtradr just inked a serious partnership with Mood Media, a massive supplier of in-store music. Once upon a time, getting radio play was the only real way to gain exposure.  Now, technology has blown that memory to bits, with a strange twist for in-store retail play.  Thanks to on-the-spot recognition by apps like Shazam and […]

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Exclusive: Landr Is About to Launch a Digital Distribution Service

Cloud-based mastering company Landr will soon launch its own digital music distribution service. Update: Shortly after we published this piece, Landr soft-launched its digital distribution service. It isn’t being publicized, though it’s now out in the wild. Here’s our original report from this morning. Want to sound like a pro at a fraction of the […]

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