How Much is a Festive Hit Worth in the Digital Age?; Radiohead Discography Now on YouTube; Discogs App Launches Song Previews via Apple Music

Ben Gilbert investigates just how lucrative festive hits are for artists, labels and music rights holders in the digital age.

Radiohead have uploaded their entire discography to YouTube. It’s likely in response to Billboard’s new YouTube policy for album charts.

But don’t count out Spotify entirely.

 Discogs, the leading online physical music exchange, now enables users to preview millions of songs through the Discogs App.

The applications of data analytics in A&R has been a hot topic in the industry for a long time.

Six key reasons why Classic Rock is on the rise.

As artificial intelligence continues to grow and develop, its presence is affecting more and more industries.

Earlier this month, we reported on Resso, the new music-streaming app that TikTok’s parent company Bytedance is testing in India and Indonesia.

Spotify’s content chief Dawn Ostroff is leading the music behemoth into an entirely new area that’s all about words, not riffs: podcasts.

I know that we’re all inundated with streaming media apps and services, particularly when it comes to music.

As the DIY community grows, and international artists cross over to U.S. listeners, the royalty-collecting organization is finding new ways to track down unregistered artists.

Music Ally just released Stuart Dredge’s “The 42 Trends of 2019,” a comprehensive end-of-year report for the music biz.

According to data released by Napster, indie music consumption on tha platform has doubled since 2015. One-third of the 100 most streamed artists are indie.

This MBW blog comes from Matt Brinkworth, who is an artist manager and Head of Digital at Omnian Music Group