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Whether TikTok Stays or Goes Is Irrelevant to Many In the Music Industry — Now, Players Like Chartmetric Are Developing Far More Sophisticated Solutions for Spotting Future Superstars

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Chartmetric's 'Talent Search Tool' sifts through an enormous amount of data to better predict winners (photo: Chartmetric) You can forgive the music industry for being blasé about the fate of TikTok in the Un... Read More...
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The beatBread Deal Comparison Tool dashboard, which compares proposed terms from labels, distributors, and others (photo: beatBread) beatBread has launched a “Deal Comparison Tool” designed to enable artists ... Read More...
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Can Spotify’s ‘super-premium’ tier break the streaming music plateau? In this report, we pick apart the rumored offerings within ‘Music Pro’ – and examine the serious challenges that each presents from both an execution and consumer adoption standpoint.

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Photo Credit: SoundCloud Which music streaming platform is delivering the most reliable data on play counts? In a surprising turn of events, SoundCloud has emerged as the leader in Legitary's latest DSP trans... Read More...
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Photo Credit: Saydung89 The music industry faces a bevy of challenges in 2025 – as we'll cover exhaustively in the pages of Digital Music News – but ensuring accurate and timely payments to rights owners shou... Read More...

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Photo Credit: Ri Ya Here's a music industry newsflash: everybody hates Spotify's cut-rate 'bundled' royalty payments — except for Spotify. Six-year-olds enjoy cauliflower more, but now that Spotify just whipp... Read More...
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Spotify US-based subscribers, both overall and Individual Premium, from November, 2023 to November, 2024 (Source: DMN Pro/Digital Music News) Surprising declines in Spotify’s US-based individual Premium subsc... Read More...

Universal Music Group Bosses Finally Push Back on Spotify’s Bundling Shenanigans — Now There’s a Direct Deal with UMPG Dealing With the Royalty Loophole

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Since early 2024, Spotify has been ramming nearly every subscriber into a cut-rate 'bundled' package involving music and audiobooks — and boasting about the huge royalty savings while fighting publishers toot... Read More...
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Music startups have crashed across nearly every category, DMN Pro data reveals (Photo: DMN Pro/Digital Music News) Splashy funding announcements are extremely common in the music industry. But what happens to... Read More...
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Fewer Than 1% of Spotify Subscription Plans Are Currently Non-Bundled and Music-Only, Late-2024 Data Shows

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Spotify’s non-bundled, music-only subscriptions virtually disappeared in 2024, according to DMN Pro’s latest intel. But that’s a Spotify feature, not a Spotify bug. Here’s what the latest data shows across all plan types and tiers in the United States, and what this means for streaming royalties going forward.
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Core Music Industry Funding Actually Rose in 2024 Thanks to a Few Massive Raises — Is a Wider Resurgence In the Cards for 2025?

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