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From tapes, to MP3 and LimeWire, and now Streaming; the music industry has gone through major changes over the last few decades. The article below is an interesting read to learn about its timeline.

8 hidden Spotify tricks to get the most out of the streaming music platform

How to Discover New #Music? Just Enter the Artist You Love in Music-Map & Find Similar Tunes If I was paid a dollar each time I saw this question on X or Reddit, I would finally be rich. Despite all those countless ways of discovering new music gems on streaming platforms, YouTube, Netflix and HBO shows, and video games, it's still hard to find something to your liking at times. If you're looking for a new way of exploring music and updating your library, here's the tool we've just discovered—Music-Map can help you do exactly that. https://lnkd.in/e5iq-ec3

📊45 million tracks on streaming platforms didn’t receive a single play last year. Your music faces an epic battle just to be heard. So what do you do as an artist? 🎵You make "stream-friendly" music over a unique artistic expression. With 120,000 new tracks uploaded daily to streaming platforms how else are you going to be heard? 🤖Plus a significant portion of these tracks are AI-generated. Thats an even bigger splash in an already overflowing pool. What's the solution? Could niche streaming services or refined algorithms be the answer? 💡Let’s start a conversation on how we can balance creativity with discoverability in this new music economy. 👉Here's an article I wrote on this matter: https://lnkd.in/dBWFh27E . . #MusicIndustry #StreamingMusic #Spotify #DigitalMusic #MusicProduction #ArtistsOnLinkedIn #music #business #marketing #streaming #creativity #AI

Can you imagine if Spotify had to open source their algorithms? Last week, an EU Parliament Committee made some dramatic recommendations to streaming services. Included was to "oblige platforms to make their algorithms and recommendation tools transparent..." They also implored them to clean up their metadata, exert more efforts to pay rights holders properly, and institute a policy of labeling AI content. They even went after Spotify's Discovery Mode, criticizing programs that reduce royalty rates in return for promo. One line in the report in particular stood out to me (quoting the article below): "...the way streaming royalties are shared out, 'pre-digital' conventions that tend to favour record labels should be “revised”. The economics of the music industry are entirely based upon early industrialized laws being applied to the digital era in weird and clunky ways. So if that statement doesn't sum up what needs to change, I don't know what does. #musicindustry #musicbusiness #streaming #musicai

Amid all the hubbub around new music-streaming payout models – user-centric, artist-centric and more – there has always been a question about what the biggest streaming services would do. Thus far, the experiments and proposals have tended to come from the mid-tier services like Deezer, SoundCloud and TIDAL. However, today there are reports that Spotify is preparing to make some tweaks to its payouts in response to the industry debates. The gist: tracks will soon have to reach a minimum threshold of annual streams to qualify for royalty payouts – Music Business Worldwide (MBW) said that this will only affect tracks that had previously accounted for 0.5% of Spotify’s royalties pool. Read The Full Story Here: https://lnkd.in/eP-CfxFy #SpotifyNews #MusicStreaming #RoyaltyPayouts #musically #musicnews #readmore

Talking ‘garbage’: How can Spotify and co sort the dregs of the music business from the hidden treasures? MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events or news stories. Thanks to JKBX (Jukebox) for the support. #musictreaming #streaming #musicbusiness #musicindustrynews

How to get more Spotify streams as an unsigned artist? In this article, we'll be discussing how unsigned artists can get more Spotify streams. We'll cover a variety of strategies and techniques that you can use to increase your visibility on this popular music streaming platform. https://lnkd.in/e7nVxguN #spotifypromotion #unsignedartist #musicmarketing #playlistpromotion

Checkout Spotify's Loud&Clear Annual Music Economics Report. Spotify's record payout. For another year, Spotify set the record for the highest annual payment to the music industry from any single retailer: $9B More information presented here; https://lnkd.in/guy4chtF with great transparency. #spotify #loudandclear #payout #musicindustry #streaming #musicfinance #transparency

Very interesting shift in the music streaming space business model! As someone who does a lot of 'passive listening' I don't think this is the correct shift to rewarding more engaged listening. Since music discovery happens more from algorithmic listening it's hard to see this as a winning business model. What do you think about it? #music #musicindustry #musicstreaming #business