Category Archives for "Music Industry News"

December 14, 2018

The Biggest YouTube Channel Will Soon Be A Record Label, Not A Personality

YouTube Channel on Bobby Owsinski's Music 3.0 Blog

It seems like the days of the YouTube personality are slowly beginning to wane thanks to creator burnout and corporations getting better at implementing their channels. PewDiePie currently leads all others on the platform with an astounding 76.4 million channel subscribers, but that record may fall by the time you read this. What’s more interesting […]

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December 13, 2018

Sony Music Launches A Tidal Rival In Japan

Sony Music Mora Qualitas on the Music 3.0 Blog

The major record labels have always chaffed at the idea of tech companies like Spotify, Apple, Google and Amazon being in control of the distribution of their music, especially at the currently Wall Street valuations that those companies possess. That said, they’ve been unsuccessful in developing their own digital distribution product in the past, which […]

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December 5, 2018

Qobuz, Another Hi-Res Streaming Service To Launch Soon

Qobuz on the Music 3.0 Blog

The fervor for high-resolution music streaming has died down in recent months, and it looked like everyone has finally settled on the current CD-level quality as sufficient enough for most users. That sentiment isn’t enough to stop hi-res streamer Qobuz from planning a launch for next year though, as the company recently opened up a […]

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December 3, 2018

Buying A Bot For More Spotify Or SoundCloud Streams Is Still Easy

streaming music bot on the Music 3.0 Blog

You’d think that after all the recent uproar it would more difficult to buy a bot to manipulate an artist’s Spotify or SoundCloud streams, but that’s not the case, as Hypebot points out. As the article states, “Some bots are run by commercial services selling guaranteed streams. Others come from developers like somiibo which offers bots for […]

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November 21, 2018

Universal Music Artists Might Get A Big Gift Thanks To Taylor Swift

Universal Music Taylor Swift on the Music 3.0 Blog

It’s big news that Taylor Swift has left the Big Machine label for Universal Music, but a byproduct of that deal is that the label’s artists would receive all of their share of the revenue from a sale of the company’s holdings of Spotify should it decide to sell. That means that the total amount […]

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November 14, 2018

Artists Are Getting Fake Plays On Spotify But Not From Where You Think

Spotify Fake Plays on Bobby Owsinski's Music 3.0 Blog

Throughout the digital age, artists have learned to game the system in an effort to move their careers ahead. It’s easy to buy fake YouTube views, Twitter followers, Facebook friends and followers, playlist rankings, and just about anything else where the number seems to validate the artist’s popularity. It’s gotten to the point where labels […]

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