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ORA Records Signs Landmark Deal With Island Record UK

ORA Records Signs Landmark Deal With Island Record UK

New York-based ORA Records has announced it has forged a licensing deal with Island...

TuneCore Up The Ante With Unlimited Distribution Package

TuneCore Up The Ante With Unlimited Distribution Package

TuneCore is – for the first time in history – enabling artists and labels to distribute...

New Spotify A.I Attempts to Disrupt Indie Music Management Space

New Spotify A.I Attempts to Disrupt Indie Music Management...

spotify, indie music, management, business new, artificial intelligence, new music,...

Caribbean based music analytics startup Certifiedstreams™ goes live

Caribbean based music analytics startup Certifiedstreams™...

Caribbean based music analytics startup Certifiedstreams™ goes live

Music Shelf life Down But Reggae Still Outpaces Dancehall

Music Shelf life Down But Reggae Still Outpaces Dancehall

CertifiedStreams.com Industry overview report for Q1 2022, has revealed that the...

China Streaming Services Outpacing Spotify

China Streaming Services Outpacing Spotify

Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) and NetEase Cloud Music (NCM) saw significant...

OneRPM opens Atlanta Office

OneRPM opens Atlanta Office

ONErpm is opening an Atlanta office, helmed by industry executive Orlando McGhee...

UMG's Spinupp Closing Its Doors To DIY Artists

UMG's Spinupp Closing Its Doors To DIY Artists

This week, Universal Music Group-owned distribution platform Spinnup revealed that...

PPL Reports Record Profits For 2021

PPL Reports Record Profits For 2021

UK music licensing company PPL has reported revenues of £252.8 million ($347.7m)...

LimeWire Signs Deal With Universal Music Group

LimeWire Signs Deal With Universal Music Group

LimeWire, a former file-sharing platform recently relaunched as a digital collectibles...

Reggae Global Market Share Dips By 14% In Q1 2022

Reggae Global Market Share Dips By 14% In Q1 2022

Reggae's lost 14% of its market share to Afrobeat druing the first quarter of 2022...

Spotify Flunks Loud & Clear

Spotify Flunks Loud & Clear

The Loud & Clear report revealed that only 16,500 artists on Spotify platforms generate...

Meet The New Chris Blackwell of Republic Records

Meet The New Chris Blackwell of Republic Records

Blackwell will guide the creation and development of content for the entire Republic...

Last week, Daniel Ek bought $50m in Spotify stock. Today, Spotify’s share price sunk to an all-time low.

Last week, Daniel Ek bought $50m in Spotify stock. Today,...

Ek tweeted on Friday that he believed Spotify's "best days are ahead" Source

Bad Bunny is king of Spotify, setting new all-time record for streams in a single day

Bad Bunny is king of Spotify, setting new all-time record...

In 2021, Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist in the world on Spotify for the...

$1.3bn-valued DistroKid moves into video distribution with new DistroVid launch

$1.3bn-valued DistroKid moves into video distribution with...

The DistroVid platform will allow artists to upload an unlimited amount of music...