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Spotify developing “remix” feature to allow users speed up, slow down and mash-up songs

The streaming giant reportedly hopes to “appeal to young users, while generating new revenue for artists”

Spotify is working on a “remix” feature that will allow users to speed up, slow down and mash up songs. As the Wall Street Journal...

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“It doesn’t come for free... we’re going to split whatever the cost is”

DJs who stream on Twitch may soon be required to share their earnings with record labels, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has revealed. Speaking in an...

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Next month, the Swedish streaming giant will increase the price of its individual premium service plan from £10.99 to £11.99

Spotify is set to raise its premium prices at the end of this month. Following its recent move to demonetise tracks with under 1,000 streams...

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The Association of Independent Music (AIM) have called the voluntary code “a milestone”

Musicians in the UK are to be offered protections and “transparency” around streaming royalties under a new code published today (31st January). Created by the...

Apple Music to pay higher royalties for music in Spatial Audio

Artists will receive a 10% higher royalty fee for spatial audio content

Apple Music has revealed that it is to begin paying artists higher royalties for music made available in Spatial Audio. As of this month, artists...

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The free streaming platform for launches, documentaries, series and more arrives later this year

NASA is launching a free streaming service for TV and mobile that will allow viewers to watch launches, documentaries and more. The US federal space...

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StreamingDirectPlay gives you access to Beatport's catalogue of 11+ million tracks

Pioneer DJ’s CDJ-3000 can now stream music from Beatport. StreamingDirectPlay, which has been made available as part of a new firmware update (ver. 3.0), is...

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"Good quality metadata benefits everyone who creates and enjoys music"

The UK music industry is set to establish a “landmark agreement on streaming metadata”. Created by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and published on 31st...

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It comes less than a year after up to 20% off its staff lost their jobs

SoundCloud has taken the “difficult” decision to lay off 8% of its global staff as part of a bid to make the streaming platform profitable...

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Acts spend more than they make from streams, sales, sync and other music revenue streams combined

New research has found that 75% of artists make a loss when they release music. PIRATE.COM, a global music studio that hosts 350,000 artists worldwide...

Bandcamp introduces playlists function on mobile app

Create playlists from your personal Bandcamp collection

Bandcamp has introduced a playlists function on its mobile app. To create a playlist, open up the Bandcamp Fan app and look for the new...

Spotify becomes first streaming platform with over 200 million paid subscribers

The milestone comes as the Swedish company lays off 6% of its workforce, affecting about 600 employees

Spotify is the first streaming platform to hit the 200 million paid subscribers milestone. In Spotify's earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2022, the...

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The study also found that  60% of streams were of music recorded by only the top 0.4% of artists

A new report has found that music streaming services are unlikely to make sufficient "excess profits" to improve paying artists. According to the independent study...

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Tickets for seven events are currently available to buy via the new website

Spotify has launched a new website to sell concert tickets directly to fans, Pitchfork reports Launched on Wednesday, August 10th, the streaming giant launched a...

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Warner is the first major label to adopt the user-centric payout system

Warner Music Group has adopted SoundCloud's Fan-Powered Royalties (FPR) system for streams. The major label, home to the likes of David Guetta, Gorillaz, and Lizzo...

Streaming royalty rates to be increased in the US, the Copyright Royalty Board confirms

The 44% increase to songwriter and publisher payouts will go ahead despite a 2019 appeal by Spotify, Google, Amazon and Pandora

The US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has set a new royalty rate for streaming services of 15.1% to pay songwriters and publishers for 2018 to...

Electronic music industry value rose to $6 billion in 2021, IMS report reveals

Other key findings from the report include a "permanent" shift in expectation around diversity within the industry

The value of the electronic music industry grew to $6 billion in 2021, according to the International Music Summit's annual Business Report. That's up from...

"I did not agree to them taking this action and I'm truly shocked that it has come to this," he said on Twitter

Three of Four Tet's albums released on Domino have been remove from streaming services amid a dispute between the label and artist over royalties.

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With the vast majority signed to major labels 

Just 0.4 percent of artists in the UK make a living from streaming plays of their music, according to a new study. 

The research —...

The artist is claiming he has the right to a royalty rate of 50%

Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, has launched legal proceedings against record label Domino over a dispute about royalties.

According to a report by Music Week...