As Apple Music and Spotify move to include “DJ Mixes” as part of their music offerings, it’s time to take an in-depth look at how DJs are presented in the world of music streaming and video — Introduction In the first two parts of this series “DJ Mixes in the world of streaming music (and video)”, I discussed how Apple Music and Spotify (and to a lesser extent Amazon Music) are promoting DJ mixes on their platform, as albums. The DJ mixes on Apple Music and Spotify are…

A breakdown of what the recent Diplo Music NFT offering (via Music NFT Platform Royal.io) means for those who own it or want to buy it — Introduction I explore many topics here on my Music Data Pro Medium (blog) but I tend to focus in on the areas of streaming statistics and music metadata under the larger umbrella of music marketing. I did not feel much of a need to explore Music NFTs on this blog, because…

What are the Major Music NFT Platforms offering music fans, buyers, and the musicians creating the content — Introduction Recently, I was on Twitter and saw a bunch of tweets about a Music NFT offering from super producer Diplo via the Royal.io platform. The language “I just bought of piece” of “X song” didn’t seem accurate to me. And that language seems to be autogenerated by the social…

As Apple Music and Spotify move to include “DJ Mixes” as part of their music offerings, it’s time to take an in-depth look at how DJs are presented in the world of music streaming and video — In Part 1 post on the this topic, I explained how “DJ Mixes” are now being offered as part of the Spotify and Apple Music streaming services. …

How to make sense of the metrics offered up in the Spotify for Artists’ Wrapped annual stats program — Don’t Split The Streams is an ongoing blog series covering music marketing topics. It specifically focuses on maximizing stream counts and download sales on specific streaming services and retailers such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Beatport, Traxsource etc. Spotify Data as a Marketing Hook

As Apple Music and Spotify move to include “DJ Mixes” as part of their music offerings, it’s time to take an in-depth look at how DJs are presented in the world of music streaming and video — Before I dig into how DJs will be represented in the future on Apple Music, Spotify and other streaming services, it’s important to detail what these new initiatives mean for both DJs and listeners. …

The “Music Publishing Industry “ is red hot and is rapidly consolidating, but some independent publishers find their work slowed by technological updates, a rapidly expanding universe of new songs, and a global pandemic — Overview This post is an attempt to uncover and explain why registrations of songs at US performing rights organizations (ASCAP and BMI) were taking an extraordinarily long time to process in 2020 and into 2021.

The “Music Publishing Industry “ is red hot and is rapidly consolidating, but some independent publishers find their work slowed by technological updates, a rapidly expanding universe of new songs, and a global pandemic — Overview This post is an attempt to uncover and explain why registrations of songs at US performing rights organizations (ASCAP and BMI) were taking an extraordinarily long time to process in 2020 and into 2021. And will these issues continue?

A brief exercise to find the single source of a burst of Shazams (listener audio identification activity) — Apple Music for Artists, an analytics platform for musical artists and their management / marketing teams, pulls most of the data related to the consumption of an artist’s music from how their songs are played on the Apple Music streaming service. …