Really? Its not viable for music services to deal directly with each artist or label individually. There’s a good reason that iTunes will only deal with approved distributors and a hand full of labels. Tidal’s waffle about allowing artists to upload their own metadata and assets is more pr fluff from them, its never going to happen. No sensible business would allow it and they have already backtra

This is from a smaller indie label, based in the United States, with global streaming distribution through a major digital distributor.  This is what they got paid on average, per-stream, from all of their streaming partners between October 1st and December 31st of last year.  These are just the numbers from a spreadsheet for one label for a specific pay period. We’ve ranked it from best to worst.

Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music is art, art has real value, and artists deserve to be paid for it.  We started Spotify because we love music and piracy was killing it.  So all the talk swirling around lately about how Spotify is making money on the backs of artists upsets me big time. Our whole reason for existence is to help fans find music and help artists connect with fans through a pla

Taylor Swift’s Manager Says Spotify Is a Bunch of Inflexible Assholes… Scott Borchetta, Taylor Swift’s manager, in a recent interview with Sixx Sense with Nikki Sixx… If you are a premium subscriber to Beats, or Rdio, or any of the other services that don’t offer just a free only, then you will find [Taylor Swift's] catalog.  So the problem we have with Spotify is, they don’t allow you do anything

By this point we’ve heard it all. Every side of the Swiftify spectrum from the haters who gonna hate hate hate hate (sorry had to) to the cheerleaders who blast Spotify every chance they get. To catch you up if you’ve been under a rock this past week, Taylor Swift sold more albums in its debut week than any other artist in 12 years. She’s the only artist to go platinum all year. And she pulled all