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7 Best Streaming Deals for Students 2024: Subscriptions, Live TV, Hulu

All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Besides furthering your learning, getting an education comes with perks — including access to many bundles and discounts. No matter if you’re starting college, going back to school or are continuing your education, some streaming services […]

todayApril 15, 2024 2

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Trent Reznor Says Streaming Sites Have ‘Mortally Wounded’ Artists

Trent Reznor has slammed streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, claiming their paltry payouts have “mortally wounded” artists.The Nine Inch Nails mastermind dished his thoughts during a recent interview with GQ.“I think the terrible payout of streaming services has mortally wounded a whole tier of artists that make being an artist unsustainable,” Reznor explained. “And it’s great if you’re (multi-platinum rapper) Drake, and it’s not great if you’re (indie […]

todayApril 4, 2024

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Global Streaming Growth Led to Local Music Boom in Latin America

In their much-cited 2023 paper “Glocalisation of Music Streaming within and across Europe,” Will Page and Chris Dalla Riva note that the rise of global streaming platforms correlates with the strengthening of local music. This seemingly contradictory state is what the authors refer to as “glocalisation” — or “glocalization” in the American spelling. And in Latin music, that phenomenon has led to a spike in local genres like corridos, banda, […]

todayMarch 16, 2024 2

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Kanye West Debates Not Putting New Album On Streaming Services

Kanye West has said that he’s considering all options for releasing his new album, including keeping it off of streaming services.Ye told the fan site YeFantatics, with whom he has been communicating in recent days, that he has been “talking with the team” about the method of release for his new album with Ty Dolla $ign, Vultures 2.“We sell albums on Yeezy.com. I got 20 million instagram followers,” he wrote to […]

todayMarch 10, 2024 3

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Songwriters & Music Publishers Due Nearly $400M in Streaming Payments

Songwriters and publishers are due nearly $400 million in additional payouts following the Copyright Royalty Board‘s Phonorecord III final determination in August, according to information the Mechanical Licensing Collective (the MLC) released on Friday (Feb. 23). During the Phono III blanket license period (2021-2022), the MLC reports that digital service providers like Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube and Pandora underpaid rightsholders by $419.2 million — $281 million from mechanical royalties and […]

todayFebruary 24, 2024 7

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Percentage of Music on Streaming Never Played Is Staggering

One of the great things about streaming is that it provides you a seemingly endless amount of content that you can listen to all within a specific platform, but how much of that content do you take advantage of? According to the 2023 Luminate year-end report, there is an absolutely staggering amount of music that never even got touched (or clicked on) over the course of the 2023 calendar year.Luminate […]

todayJanuary 15, 2024

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Mariah Carey Smashes Her Own Single-Day Spotify Streaming Record

Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has earned the diva the title of “Queen of Christmas,” and the song is still breaking records.According to TMZ, the song was streamed a whopping 23,701,697 times on Sunday (December 24). This number smashes the previous record for the same song, which was streamed 21,273,357 times on the same day the previous year. Before that, the record was held by Adele’s […]

todayDecember 25, 2023 4

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Spotify Says New Music Streaming Tax in France Harms Innovation

France has created a new tax on music streaming platforms which was announced back on Wednesday. Even though its purpose was to help the music industry, Spotify has been vocal about how it can negatively affect innovation in the sector. (Photo : Didem Mente/Anadolu via Getty Images) Spotify Disagrees with France Spotify openly disagrees with the new tax that France imposes on music streaming platforms, and responded by pulling the […]

todayDecember 23, 2023 5

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Spotify Withdraws Support From 2 French Music Festivals Due to Country’s Streaming Service Tax

Spotify is pulling its support from two of France's upcoming music festivals due to the country's latest change in tax law.The streaming service's managing director in France, Antoine Monin, discussed the situation on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday."Following the announcement of the implementation of a tax on music streaming in France, we regret to announce that Spotify France will stop supporting the Francofolies de la Rochelle and the Printemps de […]

todayDecember 22, 2023 4

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