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Spotify Paying Subscribers

Category: Current Events Tags: Record Label, spotify, Spotify Now, Spotify Running

Major labels have been putting a lot of heavy pressure on Spotify to limit free access but

Major labels like Universal Music Group have been putting heavy pressure on Spotify to limit free access.  But Spotify is stepping up to defend freemium, and put paid-only services on blast.

Spotify says that they have 20 million paying subscribers.  They say they’ve paid out a cumulative total of $3 billion in royalties, and $300 million in the first three months of this year. 

Spotify also claims that payouts for indie artists have been $700,000 a year on average.  Additionally, Spotify estimates that indie artists will receive $1.2 million in the coming year, but they don’t explain their estimation.

American Airlines Responds to Criticism and Starts Playing Indie Music

Category: Current Events Tags: haim, indie artists, indie music, instrumental, music, phantogram, pop songs, song

The instrumental versions of pop songs had become tired on airlines, and passengers complained about being bored with the music, and ready for a change.  The world’s largest carrier, American Airlines, had a solution to this problem and has created an indie music themed playlists for its boarding and exit soundtracks.  This creates better song selections and is designed to capture a younger demographic. The cabin music is reportedly being updated as well so that flyers become familiarized with up and coming indie artists, like Haim and Phantogram.

Check out the image above for a sample of some of the new indie music playlists American Airlines reportedly plans to incorporate.

Pandora Wins ASCAP Appeal

Category: Uncategorized

Ascap has been trying to raise the amount that Pandora pays songwriters

he U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Pandora, saying that the 1.85 percent of revenue cost set by the ASCAP vs. Pandora rate court is reasonable for all five years of the license.

and affirming the ruling by Judge Denise Cote, the ASCAP/Pandora rate court judge, that partial withdrawals of digital rights under the consent decree are not allowed.

 

ASCAP’s appeal of a ruling last year pertaining to the rate that Pandora pays the performance right organization has been denied.

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Pandora, saying that the 1.85 percent of revenue cost set by the ASCAP v. Pandora rate court is reasonable for all five years of the license; and affirming the ruling by Judge Denise Cote, the ASCAP/Pandora rate court judge, that partial withdrawals of digital rights under the consent decree are not allowed.

ASCAP had appealed the 1.85 percent rate set by Judge Denise Cote for Pandora’s license, which is set to expire on Dec. 31 of this year

Submit Your Tracks: Producer for Ice Cube Looking for Tracks

Category: Current Events, Sell Music, Selling Music Instruction Tags: ice cube, Music Gorilla, producer, south beats, uptempo, west coast beats

A producer for Ice Cube is looking for tracks so we wanted to ask you if you have any tracks available that you want to submit. The tracks should be hard uptempo south beats/uptempo west coast beats, and amazing full songs/records.

If you want to submit your music to the producer this is what you do:

1) Click here to sign up with our partner Music Gorilla
2) Send a message to in**@mu**********.com and let them know you came from Indie Music Network to receive free credits (25 credits valued at $25)
3) Submit your tracks here for Ice Cube’s producer  by January 16th, 2015

To your music success,
Traci Crowley
Indie-MusicNetwork.com

P.S. Click here more information on receiving your credits at no cost