Musikbusinessnews: Rhapsody, Gramofon, U.S.-Streamingmarkt

Weitere Musikbusinessnews der letzten Tage:

• Rhapsody tops 2 million paid subscribers, expands music service overseas with mobile deals – GeekWire „That’s up from 1.7 million in April, but still well below Spotify which boasted 10 million paying subscribers as of three months ago.“
• SoundCloud Launches Integration With Wireless HiFi System Sonos
• LANDR by MixGenius Mastering as a Service.
• What I Learned From Releasing Monthly Music Videos for a Year „I send out each video monthly to my fan base and ask for nothing in return. People can also download each song for free in exchange for an email address. I now include lyrics and chords to all of my songs with the videos. I do this because I am cultivating a long-term audience that relates to me and my music. I hope to do this career for the long run and I am thinking decades down the road. The more I am out there, the more people like my music and perceive me as being famous and successful, the more inquiries I get about doing gigs, the easier it is for me to book gigs when I initiate the contact, and the more music I sell over time.“
• Gramofon Adds Rhapsody and Napster
• You Need to Hear This Extremely Rare Recording  — The Message — Medium
• SoundCloud rules Twitter, followed by Spotify and Last.fm
• U.S. Streaming Music Grows To $1.43 Billion, Says RIAA
• Some reading material on Pono
• Twitter and Billboard release new tool for tracking popular music | The Verge „Twitter’s social music discovery service might have failed, but that hasn’t stopped the company from partnering with Billboard to launch the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts. The website measures the popularity of songs in the US by scanning Twitter interactions for links to music-listening platforms like Spotify or iTunes, hashtags such as #nowplaying, and the presence of words like „track“ and „listen.““