Earlier this week we reported on Tencent Music’s latest financial results, including the news that it now has 39.9 million paying users for online music. Note, that’s not just ‘subscribers’, because […]
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Pandora adds new music submission tool for independent artists
Spotify’s attempt (since abandoned) to allow artists to upload their music directly to its platform without a distributor caused a stir, but some other streaming services have been offering a […]
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Apple Music produces exclusive video for artist Peggy Gou
The latest musician getting some love – and indeed, some video budget – from Apple Music is Berlin-based artist and DJ Peggy Gou. Her latest music video, for her track ‘Starry […]
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Independent artist Aaron Smith gets push from Spotify and Apple
Congratulations are due to independent artist Aaron Smith, whose debut track ‘Unspoken’ has (as MBW noticed on Friday) gone in with a bang at the top of Spotify and Apple Music’s […]
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Amuse-commissioned study explores independent-artist revenues
Midia Research’s latest report explores the burgeoning independent-artists sector, commissioned by one of the companies – Amuse – that’s trying to help those independent artists break through. Some of its […]
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Help Musicians UK launches £200k fund for independent musicians
Music-industry charity Help Musicians UK has launched a new ‘Do It Differently’ fund aimed at independent musicians, which will start with £200k to distribute. Producers, composers, songwriters, musicians, singers, DJs […]
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Indie sub-genres benefiting from Spotify Discover Weekly
Spotify has published some more data from its Discover Weekly personalised playlists, although the core stats – 40 million listeners and more than 8,000 artists getting over half their monthly listens from the feature – remain the same.
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Prince rejoins Instagram with flurry of photos
Prince appears to have settled on a formula for social media: join a service, post a few times, then delete everything and sit back to enjoy people calling you enigmatic all over again.
So enjoy Prince’s Instagram account while you can: having fired it up again this week under the “Princestagram” moniker, Prince has already posted 88 images and video clips at the time of writing.
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Audiam wants to help indie artists make money from YouTube
YouTube has several tools for helping labels and their artists make money from their YouTube views, but are independent artists making the most of them? TuneCore’s founders Jeff Price and Peter Wells think not, and are launching a new startup to try to solve the problem.
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VEVO gets Ditto Music deal for indie artists
More independent artists could be getting their own channels on Vevo, thanks to a partnership between the music videos service and digital distributor Ditto Music.
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VEVO gets Ditto Music deal for indie artists
More independent artists could be getting their own channels on Vevo, thanks to a partnership between the music videos service and digital distributor Ditto Music.
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The Sound Supply sells 10 digital albums for $15
A new US-based website is selling a bundle of 10 digital albums by independent artists for $15, with a time limit. “We’ve scoured the globe and bundled 10 amazing albums that need to be in your life.