Trent Reznor: “The terrible payout of streaming services has mortally wounded a whole tier of artists” (MusicTech)

By |2024-04-05T21:01:14-05:00April 5th, 2024|DJ, DJ Equipment Tools Software, Editorial, Entertaiment, Internet, Interviews, Music, Music News, Music Tech, news, producer|

“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 [...]

Independent artists need to generate 5 million streams annually to make US minimum wage, new report finds (Music Tech)

By |2023-12-14T11:54:07-06:00December 14th, 2023|Dance Music, Music News, news, producer, Report|

  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 [...]

Apple Music’s Latest Africa Rising Recipient Is Amapiano Singer-Songwriter, Nkosazana Daughter (Texx and the City)

By |2023-06-30T20:20:14-05:00June 30th, 2023|Amapiano, Announcements, International, Music News, Promotional, South Africa, Women|

  Apple Music today announced the latest featured artist in its Africa Rising artist development program is Nkosazana Daughter, an Amapiano singer-songwriter hailing from KwaZulu-Natal. “I am over the moon to be the cover star of Africa Rising for my debut album that’s just dropped! Thank you to Apple Music and to all of you [...]

Apple introduces Apple Music Sing (Apple News)

By |2022-12-11T20:26:32-06:00December 11th, 2022|Announcements, Music News|

PRESS RELEASE December 6, 2022 Apple Music expands its world-class lyrics experience with a new feature for fans to easily sing along to tens of millions of songs Apple Music Sing will allow fans to sing along to their favorite songs and will be available to subscribers worldwide later this month. CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced [...]

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