US Government Is Forcing Streaming Services to Pay Songwriters 43.8% More

What Streaming Music Services Pay  (Updated For 2018) Thanks to streaming music services, record labels reported record-breaking revenue last year.  In 2017, the ‘big three’ made an estimated $14.2 million a day from streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music.  Universal Music Group alone made $14.5 million each day last year. [click for more...] https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/01/16/streaming-music-services-pay-2018

2017 Streaming Price Bible! Spotify per Stream Rates Drop 9%, Apple Music Gains Marketshare of Both Plays and Overall Revenue  This data set is isolated to the calendar year 2017 and represents a mid-sized indie label with an approximately 200+ album catalog now generating over 200m+ streams annually. That’s a pretty good sample size. All rates are gross before distribution fees. Spotify was paying .00521 back in 2014, two years later the aggregate net average per play rate dropped to .00437 in 2016, a reduction of 16%. [click for more...] https://thetrichordist.com/2018/01/15/2017-streaming-price-bible-spotify-per-stream-rates-drop-9-apple-music-gains-marketshare-of-both-plays-and-overall-revenue/

The US Government Is Forcing Streaming Services to Pay Songwriters 43.8% More  A new ruling from the US Government requires that streaming music services raise their royalty rates for songwriters and music publishers. The United States Copyright Board (CRB) held hearings from March to June of  2017 to determine if it should raise, lower or do nothing to the royalty rates in regards to mechanical royalties.  On Saturday, January 28th, it issued its long awaited decision, and the news was good. https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/01/28/us-government-songwriter-royalty/

YouTube has become a registration agency for the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) initiative. YouTube will now will request an ISNI, a unique identifier, to be assigned to all creators whose works are used on the platform – including performers and songwriters – which it says will help to ‘reconcile data and ensure attribution’. ISNI is the ISO-certified global standard number for identifying millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution... https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/youtube-commits-to-assigning-isni-identifiers-for-songwriters-and-artists/
 

Radio Can't Accommodate Today's Hits Historically, traditional music radio didn't worry about how to manage multiple songs by hot artists. The record companies would release a single, if the stations' programming directors thought those songs were hits, they'd play them until that song ran through its popularity lifecycle; then the record company would release the artist's next single. It was a comfortable process - one that followed a process and it worked. On-demand streaming has changed all that... http://www.bridgeratings.com/accommodate-hits/

The Numbers Prove It - The World Is Listening To The Music It Loves On YouTube It’s no secret that YouTube is one of the most popular websites in the world, but even knowing that, the numbers connected to the service can still be mind-boggling, especially when it comes to music. While it wasn’t created to be a streaming music service, the Google-owned platform remains the single most-used website in the world to listen to music legally... https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2017/09/27/the-numbers-prove-it-the-world-is-listening-to-the-music-it-loves-on-youtube/#1eedbe961614

US Music Royalties Explained In An Infographic  How Much do Spotify and Apple Pay?... https://www.manatt.com/Manatt/media/Media/PDF/US-Streaming-Royalties-Explained.pdf

Fans Watch Taylor Swift. Economists Watch the Fans Taylor Swift made sparks fly last week when she announced a new approach to selling concert tickets. Instead of “first come, first served” -- which invites predation by bots -- Swift’s upcoming tour will sell tickets first to the people who engage the most with Swift’s website... https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-29/fans-watch-taylor-swift-economists-watch-the-fans

How To Stop Using Up All of Your Mobile Data Each Month You know those texts from your carrier informing you that you've almost blown through your mobile data allotment? Of course you do. You receive them every month. Which means it's time to make some changes. Sure, you could switch to an unlimited data plan, but those can be costly. Instead, take control of your data destiny by tweaking a few phone settings and recalibrating your media consumption...  https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-using-all-your-mobile-data/

Asking These 3 Questions Every Day Will Make You Incredibly Productive (and Successful)  With so many competing demands for our attention at work, and in our personal lives, it can be a real challenge to focus on what matters most and stay productive. Our to-do lists seem to get longer each day, each week, and each month. We have so much to do, it never really feels like we've completed what we set out to achieve...  https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/asking-these-3-questions-every-day-will-make-you-i.html

Understanding Music and Blockchain Without the Hype  As a blockchain pragmatist, I’ve always been a supporter of many ideas proposed (better data/improved efficiencies), but skeptical of whether or not any of them actually improve the current situation, exacerbate it, or are in fact possible. Every study I read has clearly been approached from the foregone conclusion that blockchain is the future, without any critical pushback. For two years I’ve been trying to dispel some of the hype... https://thetrichordist.com/2017/08/10/understanding-music-and-blockchain-without-the-hype-revisited/

Best Times to Post on Social Media: A Complete Guide  Managing all of your social media networks can be a daunting task. Knowing the best times to post on social media is even more challenging. Just ask any seasoned social media manager how difficult it is to be on top of each network... https://sproutsocial.com/insights/best-times-to-post-on-social-media/

Want To Become A Multi-Millionaire? Do These 14 Things Immediately  Most people wish their circumstances would magically change for them. They don’t have the desire to become better themselves so they can proactively improve their own circumstances. Unlike most people, who simply wait and wish for luck, you can seek to become the kind of person equipped with the skills and abilities to do brilliant things... https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/19/want-to-become-a-multi-millionaire-do-these-14-things-immediately.html