Spotify’s direct distribution deals: What do artists get paid? Spotify got the entire music business talking last week with the news that it has started offering artists the opportunity to directly distribute their material on the platform - without the requirement for a t... Read More...
Spotify to Allow Indie Artists to Upload Music Directly to Service, Bypassing Distributors Beginning today (Sept. 20), Spotify will begin allowing a select group of independent artists the ability to upload their music directly onto the streaming platform through their Spotify For Artists account, th... Read More...
Troy Carter to leave Spotify Troy Carter, who has served as Spotify's global head of creator services since June 2016, will be leaving the company in early September, Spotify confirmed. Following his departure, Carter will remain as an adv... Read More...
Drake’s “Scorpion” Sets Streaming Record… Again Drake's 25-track Scorpion album was streamed more than 170m times worldwide on Apple Music on June 29th, Apple has confirmed. The previous biggest global debut on Apple Music was another Drake project - mixt... Read More...
Spotify ‘Sorta-Kinda’ Drops R. Kelly from its Playlists… Spotify users will no longer be able to find R. Kelly's music on any of the streaming service's editorial or algorithmic playlists. Under the terms of a new public hate content and hateful conduct policy Spotif... Read More...
Apple’s Head of Hip Hop Moves to Spotify Apple and Spotify represent two of the most popular music streaming services, each responsible for hundreds of millions of downloads. Attempting to capitalize on a widening hip-hop market, Spotify has recen... Read More...
Spotify Adds Songwriter & Producer Credits The initiative is starting off as a desktop-only perk, but the company reports that it intends to bring the credits to its mobile application in the future. Desktop users of Spotify are now able to right-cli... Read More...
Jay-Z Removes (and Returns) Music from Streaming Services It seems that acclaimed rapper Jay Z had an odd weekend. He took down his catalog from both Apple Music and Spotify over the weekend. By Monday afternoon, though, he had reversed course on Apple Music and retur... Read More...
Spotify closes UMG deal; will allow album exclusives on Premium After two years of negotiations, Spotify has broken through with a major label deal. The two companies had been operating on a month-to-month basis while working out a longer-term arrangement. They have been in... Read More...
Prince’s Music Now on Streaming Services As of Sunday, you can find Prince’s music from Warner Bros. streaming on all music services including Apple, Spotify, Pandora and Amazon. Previously it only streamed on Tidal. Cameron Strang, chairman and CEO o... Read More...