Customers could soon be paying for more services, according to reports Spotify has officially demonetised all tracks with under 1,000 streams. The new policy came into effect for all artists in 1st April 2024. The revised revenue scheme was announced last year, and means music will only be included in the royalty pool calculation if it [...]
“We’ve had enough time for the whole ‘All the boats rise’ argument to see they don’t all rise.” Did you know that Trent Reznor helped to build Apple’s music streaming service? The Nine Inch Nails frontman once worked as an executive for Beats and later at Apple, and it most certainly opened his eyes to the difficulties that face artists [...]
Beatport announced today the launch of BPXX, a year-long celebration commemorating the company’s 20th anniversary. BPXX will feature a slate of special programming and events, as well as retrospectives from the last 20 years of dance music, all centred around the theme “Music Is Unstoppable.” The BPXX Capsule digital web experience charts the course of [...]
Backed by Raine Group and Temasek Holdings, SoundCloud is to be put up for sale later this year as its owners anticipate a substantial payday, Sky News learns. The owners of SoundCloud, one of the world's largest music streaming services, are preparing for a sale that could fetch in excess of $1bn. Sky News [...]
In this extract from DJ Paulette's memoir, out later this month, she confronts the discrimination she and other women faced—and celebrates some of the scene's unsung heroines. I have long been aware that there is a marked difference in the way that Black women are allowed to occupy space in the workplace, and how [...]
A new survey by Pirate reveals that 30% of artists use AI for songwriting and composition A new study has found that ChatGPT is the favoured artificial intelligence (AI) tool for musicians with 30% of artists using AI for songwriting and composition. In a new survey carried out by Pirate, it asked 1000 musicians on their top 10 AI [...]
Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and Amazon generate 96 percent of income for independent artists. A new report has found that independent musicians need to generate five million streams annually to make the US federal minimum wage. The data has been uncovered in the annual 2023 Music Economics Report for Independent Artists from music financing [...]
Uganda passed a draconian anti-LGBTQ law in March, sending the county’s queer community into turmoil and marking another brutal step in the homophobic and transphobic backlash sweeping the globe. Marke Bieschke speaks to some of the musicians affected about the new realities they face, how their art has changed, and what we [...]
The streaming service reportedly plans to raise the threshold for royalties payments to 1000 plays per track Spotify has announced it will be changing its royalties structure, with reports claiming it will pay less royalties to less-popular artists. This new structure reportedly introduces a minimum streams per song requirement for artists to gain [...]
The new release lands via Ultra Records on Friday MK, real name Marc Kinchen, continues a prolific 2023 with a new single 'Take My Chance' dropping this week.The song, which has featured heavily in the DJ's summer sets, pays homage to '90s piano house and evokes dancefloor euphoria. The Detroit-born producer has amassed over one billion global [...]
