Spotify’s Daniel Ek is betting big on developing a ‘two sided marketplace’ for music. With the company’s market cap on a downward trend despite strong growth metrics, Ek might find himself having to play up the disruption narrative more boldly and more quickly than he’d planned. Investors are betting on a Netflix-like disruptor for the music industry, rather than a junior distribution partner for the labels. And this is where it gets messy. Whereas Netflix can play individual

Our playlist submission feature is officially out of beta. A few months ago, we unveiled a beta feature in the Spotify for Artists tool that gives artists, labels, and teams the ability to share new music directly with our editorial team for playlist consideration. Since the feature became available in July more than 67,000 artists and labels have submitted music and now we’re excited to announce our playlist submission feature is officially out of beta. Since the beta began,

Mary J. Blige, right, collaborates with fellow songwriters, Ingrid Burley, left, and Jillian Jacqueline, center, during ASCAP's song camp in partnership with She is the Music in Nashville. Mary J. Blige was on hand at ASCAP's inaugural She Is the Music song camp Oct. 17-19 in Nashville where female songwriters, engineers and producers gathered for three days to collaborate. She Is the Music was created in response to a music industry report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion In

Despite the “adult” label, more millennials are tuning in, and the format is increasingly important for breaking pop acts During the first half of 2018, Adult Contemporary radio was the most-listened-to format in 50 U.S. markets. On a warm, hazy Monday in August, tucked away in a nondescript office park in Milford, Connecticut, Keith Dakin, Kevin Begley and Allan Lamberti were deciding the sound of Star 99.9, a radio station that plays what’s known as “Hot Adult Contemporary.

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We’ve put together the most comprehensive list out there of key music industry events / conferences worldwide. Bookmark it now. We’re constantly updating the list to make sure you know about the latest music industry events in each city. For smaller and more frequent events, be sure to stay updated with trade organisations such as AIM, ASCAP, A2IM, BMI and MPA (see a full list here). As not all dates have been announced yet, please refer to our 2018 list to get an idea of wha

Dina LaPolt Uh oh, here we go again. Just this past January, I wrote an op-ed about copyleftprofessors using the American Law Institute (ALI) to underhandedly slip some copyleft crib notes to federal judges. The project paused and I thought ALI would put an end to it. But they are back after waiting many months to wage an attack when opponents least expect it. You see, last week songwriters, recording artists, producers, publishers, performing rights societies, digital servic

Def Leppard, Devo, Janet Jackson, John Prine, Kraftwerk and Radiohead are on the list this time. The nominations for the upcoming 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction class were revealed on Tuesday morning (Oct. 9), and with them, and as usual, it's tough to see a single coherent direction towards the hall's future from the names selected. Perhaps tellingly, not a single one of the 15 acts nominated were acts eligible for the first time, despite such major names as Beck,

The Music Modernization Act was signed into law on Thursday by a clearly exuberant President Trump. "I've been reading about this for many years and never thought I'd be involved in it, but I got involved in it," he said of the historic legislation, which passed with unanimous support in both chambers of Congress after years of efforts by the music industry and lawmakers. At the signing ceremony, Trump was surrounded by a smattering of supportive artists including Kid Rock, J

Courtesy of Warner Music Group Warner Music Group has announced the creation of WMG Boost, a seed-stage investment fund created to support entrepreneurial growth and unique thinking within the music industry. The fund will invest in businesses in their earliest stages of development that have relation to recorded music business. WMG Boost will also be involved in how technology plays a part in the industry across recorded music and publishing. Portfolio companies will also ha