Industry News
Ingrooves acquires South Africa-based distributor, Electromode
London-based Ingrooves Music Group has acquired independent South Africa-based music distributor Electromode, marking Ingrooves’ entrance into the growing African music market. Electromode Managing Director Chris Ghelakis will continue to lead the team based in...
UMG Africa Head Calls for 5% African Content on Global Playlist
Universal Music Group new Sub Saharan and South Africa CEO Sipho Dlamini has called for a minimum of 5% African musical content on the global playlists of world leading Digital Services Providers (DSPs) Apple and Spotify. “Literally just 5% on New Music Friday, so you...
Complete idiot’s Guide to Sending me Free Stuff: by Hans Werksman
– Here Comes the Flood originator. You, budding artist, big time PR honcho or whatever, wants to send me something. Me, big time music blogger, will teach you. Sending me free stuff Albums? Concert tix? T-Shirts? Red Carpet treatment? For me? Yes? You're too...
Will 2021 Herald A Golden Age of Artist Partnerships For Independent Labels
While the current COVID-19 pandemic transforms aspects of the “norm” worldwide the recorded music business, which continues to be sustained by streaming income, has remained relatively insulated from any commercial downturn so far. To ensure that this situation stays...
Distrokid Launches ‘Matchmaking service’ to Help Labels Find Unsigned Artists
AMERICAN Seatle-based independent digital music distributor Distrokid has upped the game and launched a new service to help record labels and unsigned artist find one another.The new service, named Upstream, enables major and indie record companies to mine its data...
Call for Artists Bonuses after Spotify Massive Share Price Rise
Independent artists worldwide are calling for a bonus from Spotify after the Swedish streaming giant has seen a recent massive share price increase. Spotify, worth $ 67bn, has seen its share price treble in the past 10 months including hitting an all-time high of 7%...