Universal Music Group has partnership with Spotify to offer artists more promotional tools amid the dispute with TikTok.
Music rights holders get paid astonishing amounts of money, but most artists cannot make a living from their art. All the major DSPs love throwing around the big numbers they pay out to ‘the industry.’ Yet, most artists cannot rely on them to put food on their plate. There are, howe...
Spotify combs through your data and tells you your top artists, songs, albums, and more. For instance, you might find out you were in the Top 1 percent of Selena Gomez listeners. Spotify also creates a playlist of your Top 100 songs of the year. Mashable Top Stories Stay connected wi...
When people listen to your music on SoundCloud itself, SoundCloud for Artists pays you royalties calculated through a new program called fan-powered royalties. These are based on what portion of a fan’s time they spend listening to each artist. According to SoundCloud: The total amount of mone...
It’s no surprise that artists have a business bend towards music streaming in general over the radio, whose glory days are probably well past. Our Take Music streaming made up for 80 percent of the revenues of the Music Industry in the first half of 2019. Of that 80 percent, the ap...
Plenty of artists had their worlds rocked this year by the power of social media. The most “viral” artists were those who had their music most frequently shared to social platforms from Spotify. Taylor Swift’s Midnights release certainly got the world talking, and she claims the top spot ...
It has drawn criticism from recording artists, who complain that it pays too little. Claims to democratize the music industry have also been questioned, with the world’s biggest four music labels responsible for87 percent of content available on Spotify. ...
Spotify has released its annual Wrapped list of 2020's streaming trends, including the most streamed artists, songs, and podcasts on the platform, and there's some interesting data in there. Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny was the most streamed artist globally on the platform, followed by Drake...
Spotify is the most popular audio streaming service in the world, with 515 million users and 210 million premium subscribers. There are over 11 million artists and creators currently using the platform. The size of that audience alone makes it a worthwhile platform on which to promote your music...
You can get your music on Spotify and more platforms instantly and for as little as $2 a month with the help of the music distribution app.