✖️ Who owns your fan relationship? ⚖️ Saving Soundcloud with tokens? 👯 TIDAL's broken promises 💔
Hey, everybody!
It’s way too warm in Berlin to stay inside, so enjoy this week’s links: had to pick carefully to select only the best. Have a good week!
Love,
Bas
From me, for you
When to leverage platforms, and when to own your audience
In response to a small discussion & comments by Peter Harris (founder of Resonate) and Arnon Woolfson (head of music & entertainment at Synergy).
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Streaming music
SOUNDCROWD: tokenizing & collectivizing Soundcloud
Interesting thoughts by Mat Dryhurst, who suggests turning Soundcloud into a crowd-owned platform. It still has a lot of issues to solve before this would work well, but then the interests of creators & listeners could be better aligned.
Shawn ‘Gif’ Folk, an artist who also runs a YouTube-channel about music marketing called Pay Us No Mind, goes through some of TIDAL’s broken promises. It seems like Roc Nation didn’t really understand the complexities of running a streaming platform. (luckily there are some skilled people on the team there, who will hopefully turn things around)
Your music was added to a popular Spotify playlist... Now what?
Inclusion on one of Spotify’s popular playlist can mean an instant boost to your music career. That is, if you take the right steps when it happens.
Artist focus
Aphex Twin launches micro streaming service full of Aphex Twin songs
Aphex Twin & Warp, his label, set up a site for unreleased & rare tracks. Check it out.
What we can learn about innovation from the Grateful Dead
A perspective from outside the music business, which makes the insights all the more valuable.
Help Musicians launches Music Minds Matter campaign to fund 24/7 mental health service
“The situation is now urgent and we can no longer allow this to continue,” warns CEO, after charity identifies “mental health crisis” in the music business. In other news, Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos self-released a new album and is making sure proceeds go to treating mental illness.
Wide view
Thanks to streaming services, China’s consumers have begun paying for music
A market which after years of counterfeit CDs and unlicensed streams is now starting to show signs of growth. Tencent’s leading the charge. Read more. Meanwhile, Latin America is also turning into a valuable streaming market.
The three eras of paid streaming
Good analysis by Mark Mulligan who looks at the past, present, and future of music streaming, emphasizing the rising importance of AI and voice-controlled interfaces.
Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
If you don’t know about Pieter Levels, he’s an entrepreneur I try to follow closely. He bootstraps small startups and often turns them into a success by releasing new versions often and iterating fast. I think this is something people on the newsletter can learn from. In this article, he talks about his latest project, Hoodmaps. He was one of the inspirations for my piece: if you want to learn how to code, don’t learn how to code.
Fun
Since Jay-Z put out an album called 4:44, Jersey prog band 4:44 put out an album called Jay-Z
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