Berlin-based music streamer, SoundCloud begins to offer its data analytics for artists, offering up more insights around playlist activity. Artists can now have answers to questions such as who are adding songs to playlists? how many listens are coming from those playlists? etc. New CEO Kerry Trainor, who replaced SoundCloud co-founder Alex Ljung as chief …
Australian and New Zealand artists earned $62 million in royalties from online streaming in the year to date. According to APRA AMCOS, that’s a 127 percent increase and is majorly driven by distribution on digital platforms and growth in the number of subscribers. Richard Mallett, head of revenue at APRA AMCOS, said, ”Video on demand …
Social media has made it super easy for African artistes to showcase their talents to the world which is great improvement from the past whereby it was literally like a battleground for musicians and their live bands competing against each other to get their socially conscious music across to the audience. Afrobeat has more opportunities …
