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Breaking a band in 2017: ‘1m streams on Spotify is not enough’

Breaking new artists is the lifeblood of labels, and independent labels are often the wildcatters of the industry, uncovering cutting-edge genres and artists and being the first to bring them to a...

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Spotify to launch ‘playlist feedback’ system for labels this year

This week’s big story about Spotify playlists has been the series of revelations about the actually-not-so-fake-really artists on the streaming service whose tracks were being prominently featured on...

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Spotify launches new playlist-pitching system for labels

Spotify has moved to formalise the process by which major and independent labels pitch for slots in the Browse section of its service, with a quota-based system applying to global and local playlists....

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Coldcut on 30 years of innovation: ‘We are finally growing up’

30 years ago, Matt Black and Jon More met on the mixtape and rare-groove scenes in London and formed Coldcut as a rolling music, technology, art and politics project. They had enormous hits in 1988...

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Sony Music relaunches Arista Records with David Massey

One of the most famous names in the label world is getting a reinvention, as Sony Music relaunches Arista Records. The company has also nabbed former Island Records boss David Massey to lead the...

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Labels get $210m in settlement from Sirius in pre-1972 case

The dispute over pre-1972 recordings and what broadcast royalties they receive from satellite and online stations has resulted in labels getting $210m from SiriusXM and a new legal precedent being set...

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Could Spotify open up Truffle Pig and playlist analytics?

A Wired profile of Spotify’s work around music playlists has given us some thoughts about how the company could open up some of its internal tools to external curators. The first is Truffle Pig, The...

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BPI and MPA hail £497m investment from UK rightsholders

The question of how much money music rightsholders have to invest in artists and songwriters in the modern era bubbles up regularly, but now British music bodies the BPI and MPA have provided a new...

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Vinyl-only labels find their place in the streaming era

Streaming may be mainstream, but there’s some fun stuff happening at the margins of the recorded-music industry with vinyl-only labels too. The post Vinyl-only labels find their place in the streaming...

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What music labels can learn from BuzzFeed and basketball

Columbia UK’s head of radio Samuel Potts has published an interesting blog post suggesting that “record labels need a change of culture in the ‘dashboard era’ of the music industry”. It’s worth a read....

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Relive Midem 2016 with official review posts

Some of the key quotes and trends of this year’s Midem conference are being revived on Reed Midem’s official blog, courtesy of Music Ally contributing editor Stuart Dredge. The post Relive Midem 2016...

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Streaming exclusives, labels and the death of the ‘release date’

You’d be forgiven for having reached saturation point with thinkpieces about album exclusives on music-streaming services. However, if you’ve got room for one more, make it Kobalt VP of global...

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Labels are ‘investing in music’… but so are streaming services

The IFPI has released its latest ‘Investing in Music’ report, which as in previous years quantifies the A&R and marketing investment made by major and independent labels. As before, its goal is...

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Why Chance the Rapper doesn’t mean the death of labels (guest column)

This guest column comes from Bruno Guez, CEO and founder of Revelator: In May of 2015, Chance the Rapper set the music industry on fire with a simple tweet that showed download numbers for the album...

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Internationalising Indies: advice for labels going global

According to indie licensing agency Merlin, 40% of its member labels now make more money outside their home territory than inside it, compared to 16% in the industry’s purely-physical days. At the...

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Breaking a band in 2017: ‘1m streams on Spotify is not enough’

Breaking new artists is the lifeblood of labels, and independent labels are often the wildcatters of the industry, uncovering cutting-edge genres and artists and being the first to bring them to a...

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Spotify to launch ‘playlist feedback’ system for labels this year

This week’s big story about Spotify playlists has been the series of revelations about the actually-not-so-fake-really artists on the streaming service whose tracks were being prominently featured on...

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Spotify launches new playlist-pitching system for labels

Spotify has moved to formalise the process by which major and independent labels pitch for slots in the Browse section of its service, with a quota-based system applying to global and local playlists....

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Coldcut on 30 years of innovation: ‘We are finally growing up’

30 years ago, Matt Black and Jon More met on the mixtape and rare-groove scenes in London and formed Coldcut as a rolling music, technology, art and politics project. They had enormous hits in 1988...

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Sony Music relaunches Arista Records with David Massey

One of the most famous names in the label world is getting a reinvention, as Sony Music relaunches Arista Records. The company has also nabbed former Island Records boss David Massey to lead the...

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