Tag: spotify
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Apple Music
So now we finally know the details of Apple Music. I won’t go through all the details because every site on the planet has already done so, breathlessly live-blogging the full announcement. So go elsewhere for those. To be honest, as The Verge reports there are probably some sighs of relief around the rest of…
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Thoughts on Tidal and Streaming Music Services
I’m still not really clear about Tidal – the music streaming service. There was some kind of hideous press conference with lots of very successful – i.e. rich – artists talking banalities earlier this week in New York. But at this stage, a streaming music service really needs to have a point of difference compared…
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Spotify and Meghan Trainor
A week or so ago I popped in for a couple of sessions of an interesting music tech conference held in the BBC Radio Theatre called On the Beat. One of the sessions included a presentation by the always interesting Will Page, Director of Economics at Spotify. He was examining the interaction of Spotify, Shazam,…
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How Much Does An Artist Earn From The Radio?
There’s a widely linked article recently published in Wired about a track that has been played 168m times on Pandora earning its writer only $4,000. Now the first thing to note is that this number has been diluted a bit because there were three song writers and a publisher involved. The track overall paid $12,359.…