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Hi everybody!
Getting pretty settled here in Berlin - just in time for conference season: I’ll be at Classical:NEXT, Midem, and Sonar+D in the coming month.
Two days left to apply: Music Moves Europe - present your project at Midem 2017. Music data & recommendation startups, take note.
Have a great week!
Love,
Bas
From me, for you
Like MC and DJ: an audiovisual alliance for the digital age
The digital age is demanding for artists. Simply releasing audio is often not enough.
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Streaming music
The secret hit-making power of the Spotify playlist
By the time a song lands on Today’s Top Hits or other equally popular sets, Spotify has so relentlessly tested it that it almost can’t fail.
How the market for premium music services can grow 70 percent in four years
Glenn Peoples: “IHS Markit forecasts the premium market will rise 70 percent in 2020 to 51 million subscribers from 30 million in 2016. At the standard $9.99-per-month rate, 51 million premium subscribers would be worth $6.1 billion.”
How can I get on Spotify’s playlists?
An in-depth guide to getting your music listed.
Beyond streaming
The reports of the record industry's rebirth are greatly exaggerated
“In this new digital reality, the big will get bigger and the small will be left hoping for a lucky break, the chances of which get slimmer as each day passes.”
On a more positive note: don’t play games where the odds are stacked against you. Especially when you don’t need to play those games in order to still be successful.
Twitter partners with Live Nation to live stream video of concerts
Twitter might have killed off its Music app but now it’s working with the world’s top concert promoter.
The rise of the very short song
More on how artists are adjusting their music to the reality of playlists, playlist metrics, and feeds with fierce competition for attention.
Wide view
No internet, no music: why musicians need to care about net neutrality
Musicians need net neutrality in order to have a fair shake in the internet economy.
Don't hire me. Hire a female composer instead
Only 1.8 percent of music programmed by major U.S. orchestras was written by women. “If we are to survive, we need to start by reversing policies that silence the voices of half of humanity.”
This record label releases albums that are almost impossible to play
As a commentary on music’s increasing ease of availability, Auris Apothecary has released cassettes that are cut in half, CD-Rs covered in herbs, and more.
Fun
Iconic playlists: what emoji say about music
Spotify’s data team crunches the numbers on the use of emoji in playlist titles.
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