Tag: artists

As it looks to grow its audience, Pandora is considering expanding its content offering into sports, news and talk radio – aimed mainly at an in-car audience. “Music’s an important piece of radio listening in the car,...

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking lots of flak for its net neutrality proposals, with critics arguing against its proposals to allow ISPs to charge digital media companies for smooth access to their...

Music manager Nick Stern has published an op-ed piece on The Hollywood Reporter calling for greater transparency between labels and artists over streaming revenues. “I’m constantly disappointed when I hear artists...

If the rise of streaming – from Spotify and SoundCloud to YouTube – has been a breaking down of geographic barriers for music discovery, it’s also meant people looking for new songs and artists from around the world...

Beggars Group was one of the first labels to talk publicly about splitting streaming income 50/50 with artists, but the company recently confirmed that it’s now lowering the rate due to streaming being a bigger part...

SoundCloud is the latest digital music service sharing more geographical data with artists, after adding city details to its analytics system. “Ever wondered which cities your tracks are most popular in? Question answered,...

Startup Soundrop made its name running virtual listening rooms for Spotify users, before expanding to include other services (Deezer and YouTube) as well as working with artists and labels on online listening parties. The...

The BBC's youth-focused Newsbeat site has been running some articles about music piracy this week.

With millions of users sharing 350 photos a day, social app Snapchat is growing fast, and has been used by some musicians in their digital marketing.

Ticketmaster's CEO Nathan Hubbard weighed into the artists v streaming debate yesterday with some stern words for the musician community.

Pandora founder Tim Westergren has hit back at criticism of his company’s payouts to artists. In a blog post, he claims that over the next year, Pandora will pay more than $10k each to more than 2,000 artists, and more...

Finnish apps startup Mobile Backstage says its service has signed up more than 100k registered users on mobile phones since the launch of its first apps, with those users registering 4m 'interactions' in 2011 and 92m page...